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Jazz Magazine – Volume 1

 

A complete annotated index compiled by Michael Fitzgerald
Thanks to Tom Stites (Editor and Publisher) and Peter Keepnews (Contributing Editor/Managing Editor)

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1976)


Jazzkids’ Revolution Is Here

By Ed Lowe

Jazzkids Reflect On Jazz

By Carl Strommen

Ellington After the Duke

An assessment by Bob Blumenthal

Mercer: The Man

By Leonard Feather

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Returns

By Eric Levin

Insight: Bird’s Oboe Player Remembers the Man

Martin Sperber interview by Carl Strommen

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

  • MJQ Regroups

Soundings

By Harry Pearson

A jazz-lover’s audio and record-care guide

Reviews

  • George Benson: Breezin’;
  • Paul Bley: Turning Point; Quiet Song; Alone, Again
  • Betty Carter: Finally; Betty Carter: Round Midnight
  • Roland Hanna: Perugia: Live At Montreux ’74; Andrew Hill: Live At Montreux; Mal Waldron: Blues For Lady Day; Randy Weston: Blues To Africa
  • Dexter Gordon: Blues Walk
  • Helen Humes: On The Sunny Side Of The Street
  • Horace Silver: Silver ‘n Wood
  • Human Arts Ensemble: Under The Sun
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Return Of The 5000 Lb. Man
  • Lee Konitz: Lone-Lee
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Worlds
  • Jean-Luc Ponty: Aurora
  • Sonny Rollins: More From The Vanguard
  • Tribute To Louis Armstrong
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Long Yellow Road
  • Verve Reissues
  • Savoy Reissues
  • Coltrane: A Biography
  • Esquire’s World Of Jazz
  • New York Notes: A Journal Of Jazz, 1972-75

Notes

  • Fighting for All-Jazz Radio on the Battlefield of Bureaucracy, by Peter Keepnews
  • Thelonious Monk, by Peter Keepnews
  • Jazz Stamps, by William E. Schremp
  • Museum’s New Home
  • Festival Roundup
  • Maxine Sullivan, by Rosemary McManus
  • Jazz Rep Adapts, by Leonard Maltin
  • WJA Survives, by Bart Everett
  • Memorial for Bird, by Tom Stites
  • Herbie Hancock, by Tom Stites

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Waxings

By Dan Morgenstern

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Woodshed: Three Blues Progressions

By Carl Strommen

Volume 1, Number 2 (Fall 1976)


An Afternoon At Miles’s

Interview by Sy Johnson; story by Ed Lowe; cover drawing by Gary Viskupic

Insight: Of Congas and Kenton and Salsa’s Secret

Ramon Lopez interview by Carl Strommen and Tom Stites

Drawing From Jazz To Create Rock

[Steely Dan]

By Bob Blumenthal

Unearthing Jazz Heritage You Can See and Hear

By Leonard Maltin

Plans For a Memorable Party

By Leonard Maltin

Sound Tracks: How Hollywood Buried Jazz

By Don Heckman

Letters

Notes

  • George Benson, Platinum, by Tom Stites
  • N.Y. Museum, Cont’d
  • Hendricks, Ross & …
  • Buddy Rich
  • On the Horizon
  • Jazz Organizations
  • Oliver’s Mouthpiece
  • WRVR Bulletin, by Sid Cassese
  • Trumpets No End, by Tom Piazza
  • Herbie’s Piano
  • Teddy Edwards’s Friends
  • Pops in Bronze
  • Eva Taylor, by Sid Cassese
  • Basie on the Mend
  • JCOA Presentation
  • Letter from Bennington
  • Correspondence
  • Willy Maiden
  • Paying an Old Debt
  • Newsmagazines Notice
  • Woody Herman, by Harvey Siders

Festivals

  • Newport, by Peter Keepnews
  • Hampton, by Sid Cassese
  • Loft Celebration
  • Newport Friends
  • Berkeley, by Ira Steingroot

Gallery: Chick Corea

Text and photographs by Sy Johnson

Reviews

  • Chris Barber: The Chris Barber Jubilee Tour Album; by Carol Epstein
  • Dave Brubeck: All The Things We Are; by Joe H. Klee
  • John Bunch: John Bunch Plays Kurt Weill; by Joe H. Klee
  • Gary Burton: Dreams So Real!; by Colman Andrews
  • Philip Catherine: Nairam; by Colman Andrews
  • Al Cohn: Play It Now; by Tom Piazza
  • James Dapogny: Piano Music Of Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton; by Joe H. Klee
  • The Sonny Clark Memorial Album; by J. R. Taylor
  • Benny Carter: The King; by Dan Morgenstern
  • Jon Faddis: Youngblood; by Tom Piazza
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Dee Gee Days; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Hampton Hawes: The Challenge; by Tom Piazza
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Waiting; by Peter Keepnews
  • Thad Jones/Mel Lewis: New Life; by Peter Keepnews
  • The L.A. Four; by Peter Keepnews
  • Carmen McRae: As Time Goes By: Carmen McRae Alone; by Fred Freeman
  • McCoy Tyner: Fly With The Wind; by J. R. Taylor
  • Sonny Stitt: Stomp Off, Let’s Go; by Eric Levin
  • Sam Rivers: Sizzle; Dave Holland/Sam Rivers; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Zoot Sims: Soprano Sax; by Eric Levin

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues, by John McDonough

Soundings

By Harry Pearson

A jazz-lover’s audio and record-care guide

Waxings

By Dan Morgenstern

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Woodshed: Cycle of Fifths

By Neil Slater

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

  • Bags, by Miles Jordan

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 1, Number 3 (Spring 1977)


Barry Harris: True Keeper of the Bebop Flame

Interview by Ira Gitler

European Festivals

By Stuart Troup

50 Years of Benny Goodman

By John McDonough

Ornette: An Experimental Music That Has Aged Gracefully

Assessment by Bob Blumenthal

Ornette: Bobby Bradford’s Portrait of an Emerging Giant

By Keith Raether

Letters

Notes

  • Disaster Averted at New York Jazz Museum, by Peter Keepnews
  • Festivals
  • New Orleans Museum
  • New Directions for Jazz Institute, by Sid Cassese
  • WJA, R.I.P.
  • Jazz in AZ, by Pat McElfresh
  • Riversides Return
  • Horizon Survives
  • WRVR: But What Does All-Jazz Mean?, by Sid Cassese

People

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Erroll Garner: An Appreciation, by Sy Johnson
  • Basie: Back on Road with New Lifestyle, by Pat McElfresh
  • Woody Herman’s 40-Year Bash, by Ira Gitler
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Salute to Milt, by Tom Piazza
  • Paris, by Stuart Troup
  • Miles Davis, by Tom Stites
  • Dick Hyman, by Dan Morgenstern
  • Paul Desmond, by Pat McElfresh
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, by Eric Levin

Gallery: Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie

Text and photos by Sy Johnson

Reviews

  • Paul Bley & Ornette Coleman: Live At The Hillcrest Club; by Lawrence Kart
  • JoAnne Brackeen: Snooze; by Keith Raether
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee Bridgewater; by Sy Johnson
  • Clayton Jam Sessions Vol. 1, Vol. 2; by Stanley Dance
  • Composer’s Workshop: We’ve Been Around; by Tom Piazza
  • Jack DeJohnette: Untitled; by Sy Johnson
  • Roy Eldridge: What It’s All About; by Peter Keepnews
  • Jim Hall: Commitment; by Tom Piazza
  • Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass: Porgy And Bess; Ray Charles & Cleo Laine: Porgy And Bess; by Carol Epstein
  • Barry Harris: Live In Tokyo; by Dan Morgenstern
  • MCA Reissues: The Best of Count Basie; by Lawrence Koch
  • MCA Reissues: Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald; The Best of Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy; by Bill Adler
  • Milt Larkin: Down Home Saturday Night; by Stanley Dance
  • Sam Most: Mostly Flute; by Peter Keepnews
  • Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius; by Sy Johnson
  • Bucky Pizzarelli: Buck & Bud; by Eric Levin
  • Steeplechase Avalanche; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Exploring Delmark; by Jerry DeMuth
  • Mal Waldron: One And Two; Kenny Dorham: But Beautiful; by J. R. Taylor
  • Randy Weston: African Nite; by Peter Keepnews

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues, by John McDonough

Soundings

By Harry Pearson

A jazz-lover’s audio and record-care guide

Waxings

By Tom Piazza

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Woodshed: From The Contemporary Arranger on Effective Voicing for Full Band

By Don Sebesky

Books

  • Albert Murray: Stomping The Blues; by Peter Keepnews
  • Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler: The Encyclopedia Of Jazz In The Seventies; by Tom Stites
  • Dan Morgenstern & Ole Brask: Jazz People; by John McDonough
  • Nat Hentoff: Jazz Is; by J. R. Taylor
  • Carl Brandt & Clinton Roemer: Standardized Chord Symbol Notation; by Carl Strommen
  • Dean Tudor & Andrew D. Armitage: Popular Music Periodicals Index, 1975; Andrew D. Armitage & Dean Tudor: Popular Music Record Reviews, 1975; by Tom Stites

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 1, Number 4 (Summer 1977)


Record Companies Hear The Call Of Jazz

By Peter Keepnews

Independent Labels Grow

By Jerry DeMuth

The Lionization Of Dexter Gordon

By Peter Keepnews; cover illustration by John Kier

Bird Lives

By Sy Johnson

Band Mania: Rehearsing And Hoping

By Ed Lowe

Rehearsal Bands

Jack Daugherty Orchestra; Emil Palame Big Band

By Bill Schremp

Success Stories

  • Don Ellis, by Harvey Siders
  • Tiger Rag Forever, by Robert K. Sanford
  • Dave Matthews, by David S. Kramarsky

Insight: A Musician And Writer

Writings by Yusef Lateef, excerpted from Spheres

  • The Flute
  • Who Told You To Say That?
  • Where Is Lester?
  • The Trunk

Paul Bley: Avant-Gardist in Mellow Years

Interview by Eric Levin

Letters

People

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Kenton, Herman
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Miles and Gil Again, by Randy Savicky
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Williams-Taylor Concert, by Tom Piazza
  • Gold Again
  • Lost and Found

Notes

  • How to Find Jazz Off the Beaten Path in New Orleans, by Donald M. Marquis
  • Nonprofit, And How: Tales of 3 Organizations, by Sid Cassese
[Jazz Consortium, NY Jazz Museum, Jazz Interactions]
  • Jazz on the Air, by Sid Cassese
  • Players’ Helper, by Angela Robinson
  • Jazz on the Pier
  • North Texas State
  • Jazz Film Course
  • Mural in Restaurant, by Randy Savicky
  • Festival Roundup
  • New Orleans, by Donald M. Marquis
  • Back to Newport, by Randy Savicky

Gallery: Charlie Parker on 52nd Street; Slam Stewart, Illinois Jacquet

Photos by Mike Eagle

Reviews

  • Paul Bley, Gary Peacock & Barry Altschul: Japan Suite; by Don Heckman
  • Ronnie Cuber: Cuber Libre; by Tom Stites
  • Miles Davis: Water Babies; by Sy Johnson
  • Dexter Gordon: Homecoming; Dexter Gordon: True Blue; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Urbie Green: The Fox; Art Farmer: Crawl Space; by J. R. Taylor
  • Hank Jones: Jones-Brown-Smith; by Tom Piazza
  • Lee Konitz: The Lee Konitz Nonet; by Dick Zander
  • From the Smithsonian; by Dan Morgenstern
[Dizzy Gillespie: The Development of an American Artist; Fletcher Henderson: Developing an American Orchestra; Teddy Wilson: Statements and Improvisations, 1934-1942]
  • Mel Lewis: Mel Lewis And Friends; by Tom Piazza
  • Pat Martino: Joyous Lake; Larry Coryell: The Lion And The Ram; Larry Coryell: Basics; by Peter Keepnews
  • David Murray: Low Class Conspiracy; by Don Heckman
  • Milton Nascimento: Milton; by Sy Johnson
  • Mal Waldron & Gary Peacock: First Encounter; by Don Heckman
  • Weather Report: Heavy Weather; by Sy Johnson
  • Eberhard Weber: The Following Morning; by Bob Henschen
  • Jazz Archives; by Tom Piazza
[Dick McDonough & Carl Kress: Guitar Genius in the 1930’s; Ben Webster: Ben And The Boys; Chick Webb: Bronzeville Stomp; Lester Young: Jammin’ With Lester; Teddy Wilson Sextet: 1944, Vol. 2]

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues, by John McDonough

Basie After 40 Years

  • The Band, by Burt Korall
  • The Soloist, by Tom Stites
[Good Morning Blues; For The First Time; Basie Jam; The Bosses; Satch And Josh; Basie And Zoot; Basie Jam #2]

Waxings

By Dan Morgenstern

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Soundings

By Harry Pearson

A jazz-lover’s audio and record-care guide

Woodshed: Dexter Gordon’s solo on “Tenor Madness”

Transcription and text by Sy Johnson

Books

  • Dave Dexter, Jr.: Playback; by Burt Korall
  • Jamey Aebersold: A New Approach To Jazz Improvisation; by Carl Strommen

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

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