On the Beat Jazz nominations in the 2017 Grammys focus on where it all started - the US of A. Jazz FM Awards: will this year's winners trump last year's champs, the Rolling Stones? Wynton's Barbican youth band focuses on the 1957 Miles Ahead, purporting to showcase what "could be the future of jazz”
ECM: the British connection With separation looming, Brian Morton notes that music is a lingua franca that doesn’t require passports
Profiles British pianist Kit Downes loves the duo; US tuba virtuoso Howard Johnson enjoys the choral possibilities in the tuba family; Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca appreciates having the clave, “something everyone wants to learn”, in his blood
On the Other Hand Dave Gelly isn’t troubled by Jon Hendricks’ joy and positivity or Sam Braysher’s rediscovery of songbook blueprints
Joe Henderson Ronald Atkins interviewed the singular saxophonist stylist in 1995 as he was enjoying an unexpected second coming
Roger Beaujolais The vibraphonist tells Bruce Lindsay why Connie Kay played so softly in the MJQ
Standard time? Simon Spillett asks if the Great American Songbook should still be the arbiter in jazz clubs
Jazz Journal FEBRUARY 2018
