Maria Schneider Ahead of her appearance at this month’s London Jazz Festival, “the most exciting big-band composer working today” talks to Brian Morton
Iain Ballamy: My Instruments Bruce Lindsay goes down on the farm with the famed saxophonist’s honking donkeys and frightened sheep
Profiles Jazz does the honours: singer Allan Harris, voted rising star in last year’s Downbeat critics’ poll; promoter and jazz-lover John Cumming, OBE in 2014; MYJO bandleader John Ruddick, MBE in 2014
Leo Parker Gordon Jack revisits the baritone man with a big sound that owed something to Harry Carney and a conception that owed everything to Charlie Parker
Still Clinging to the Wreckage Trombonist Milt Bernhart talks to Steve Voce about Art Pepper, life on the road with Kenton, Shorty Rogers and the studios, the comeback with Sinatra, Jack Jenney, plagiarism in Herman and Duke, and more
Book & DVD Reviews Books: Rhythm Is My Beat // After Django // Sinatra: Behind The Legend // DVD: Tubby Hayes: A Man In A Hurry
Obituaries Ben Aronov; Harold Battiste; Ron Crotty; Hal Gaylor; Coleridge Goode; Harold Ousley
http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk
Iain Ballamy: My Instruments Bruce Lindsay goes down on the farm with the famed saxophonist’s honking donkeys and frightened sheep
Profiles Jazz does the honours: singer Allan Harris, voted rising star in last year’s Downbeat critics’ poll; promoter and jazz-lover John Cumming, OBE in 2014; MYJO bandleader John Ruddick, MBE in 2014
Leo Parker Gordon Jack revisits the baritone man with a big sound that owed something to Harry Carney and a conception that owed everything to Charlie Parker
Still Clinging to the Wreckage Trombonist Milt Bernhart talks to Steve Voce about Art Pepper, life on the road with Kenton, Shorty Rogers and the studios, the comeback with Sinatra, Jack Jenney, plagiarism in Herman and Duke, and more
Book & DVD Reviews Books: Rhythm Is My Beat // After Django // Sinatra: Behind The Legend // DVD: Tubby Hayes: A Man In A Hurry
Obituaries Ben Aronov; Harold Battiste; Ron Crotty; Hal Gaylor; Coleridge Goode; Harold Ousley
http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk