Saturday, October 5, 2013

Jazz Journal Magazine October issue

OCTOBER 2013

Singer special Stacey Kent, Tina May and Cécile McLorin Salvant reveal varied aspects of jazz singing today

Does jazz change the world? Brian Morton recalls a special night 30 years ago in Warsaw when jazz really did seem to signal freedom

Anec-dotage Alan Luff urges us to listen one more once to a jazz great surely immune to criticism

Book reviews There Was A Fire: Jews, Music And The American Dream; Dameronia: The Life And Music Of Tadd Dameron; The Brecon Jazz Story In Photographs; Shaping Jazz; Late Life Jazz; Leo Wright Discography

Dizzy Reece Simon Spillett responds to reader Dave Taylor’s plea last month for an article on the turbulent trumpeter

Obituaries Marian McPartland; Cedar Walton; George Duke; Sathima Bea Benjamin

Record reviews Sixty-seven CDs assessed, including a host of reissues.
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