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Jazz Magazine – Volume 2

 

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

Volume 1

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1977)


“How Many of You Are There in the Quartet?”

By Paul Desmond

[reprinted from Punch magazine, January 1973]

60 Years of Recorded Jazz

Article by Dan Morgenstern

Zawinul From Birdland to ‘Birdland’

Interview by Sy Johnson; cover illustration by Bob Delboy

Insight: How Red Scare Closed Early Integrated Clubs

Interview by Tom Piazza

Letters

People

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Miles Emerges, Almost…, by Ed Lowe
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Barney Bigard, Poem by Suzanne Noguere
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Cuban Exchange, by Randy Savicky
  • Duke Ellington
  • Mercer Ellington
  • Band Leaders Rebound, by Sid Cassese

Festivals

  • Festival Roundup: Year of Changes, by Peter Keepnews
  • Newport (N.Y.), by Peter Keepnews
  • Newport (R.I.), by Robert Kramer
  • The Lofts, by J.R. Taylor
  • Hampton, Va., by Sid Cassese
  • Vermont, by Randy Savicky

Notes

  • Hancock, by Peter Keepnews
  • Re: Jazz Clubs, by Gene Grove
  • Jazz on the Air: Good News and Bad News, by Sid Cassese
  • The Record Companies
  • Pushing Classic Jazz
  • N.Y. Jazz Museum
  • N.Y., N.Y., by Leonard Maltin
  • National Endowment for the Arts grants awards

Gallery: Art Pepper

Photos by Veryl Oakland and Mitchell Seidel

Reviews

  • Ran Blake: Breakthru; by J.R. Taylor
  • Dollar Brand: Cape Town Fringe; by J.R. Taylor
  • Gary Burton & Eberhard Weber: Passengers; by Peter Keepnews
  • Frankie Capp & Nat Pierce: Juggernaut; by Harvey Siders
  • Don Cherry: Brown Rice; Don Cherry: Hear & Now; Ornette Coleman: Dancing In Your Head; Carla Bley: Dinner Music; by Sy Johnson
  • Al Cohn: Al Cohn’s America; by Peter Keepnews
  • Dave Frishberg: Getting Some Fun Out Of Life; by Ira Gitler
  • Entertainment First; by Stanley Dance
[Butterbeans & Susie; Baby Laurence: Dancemaster; Sy Oliver and his Orchestra: Above All]
  • Elmo Hope: Last Sessions; by Tom Piazza
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Kirkatron; by Randy Savicky
  • Charles Mingus: Three Or Four Shades Of Blues; by J.R. Taylor
  • Fats Navarro: Featured With The Tadd Dameron Band; by Bill Kirchner
  • Pablo Live Series; by E.P. Levine
[J.A.T.P. In Tokyo: Live At The Nichigeki Theatre; Milt Jackson: At The Kosei Nenkin; John Coltrane: Afro-Blue Impressions]
  • Houston Person: Stolen Sweets; by Tom Birmingham
  • Return To Forever: Musicmagic; by Sy Johnson
  • McCoy Tyner: Supertrios; by Bill Kirchner
  • Wildflowers: The New York Loft Sessions; by Don Heckman

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

Books

  • Derek Jewell: Duke, A Portrait Of Duke Ellington; by Art Napoleon
  • Whitney Balliett: Improvising, Sixteen Musicians And Their Art; by Richard M. Sudhalter

Rehearsal Bands

By Bill Schremp

Woodshed: Melody Lines for Three Blues Progressions

By Carl Strommen

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 2, Number 2 (Winter 1978)


Tapping Back Into View

Interview of Chuck Green by Jane Goldberg

John Hammond’s Own Story

Excerpts from John Hammond On Record: An Autobiography

[Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Charlie Christian]

Insight: Jimmy McPartland Recalls Condon Boys’ Beginning

Interview by Bill Esposito

Ron Carter: New Giant of the Bass

Interview by Milt Hinton; cover illustration by Bob Delboy

Letters

Notes

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Tribute to Basie, by Gerald Jordan and Steve Paul
  • Center for Duke, by Brian Moss
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Double Celebration, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Museum Woes Continue, by Jean Schindler
  • Hot and Cold Jazz, by Brian Moss
  • IJF in New York
  • To Russia, With Love, by Brian Moss
  • Chertok in S. Africa, by Don Albert
  • 20 Years of Monterey, by Keith Raether
  • Women’s Jazz Festival, by Steve Paul
  • Festival of Names, by Brian Moss
  • More Changes at WRVR, by Sid Cassese
  • National Public Radio, by Sid Cassese

Gallery: Keith Jarrett

Text and photos by Sy Johnson

Reviews

  • Ron Carter Quartet: Piccolo; by Noah Young
  • Booker Ervin: Lament For Booker Ervin; by Bill Kirchner
  • Tommy Flanagan: Eclypso; by Tom Piazza
  • Elvin Jones: Time Capsule; by Eric Levin
  • Jerry Fuller & Don DeMicheal: Swingtet in Concert; by John McDonough
  • Hal Galper: Now Hear This; by Walter Parker
  • Freddie Hubbard: Bundle Of Joy; by Keith Raether
  • Herbie Nichols; by Bill Kirchner
  • Matrix IX; by Randy Savicky
  • Jo Jones: The Main Man; by John McDonough
  • Oregon: Friends; Larry Karush & Glen Moore: May 24, 1976; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Pat Metheny: Watercolors; by Randy Savicky
  • Gary Peacock: Tales Of Another; by Noah Young
  • Detroit’s Tribe; by Jerry DeMuth
  • Cecil Taylor: The Great Concert Of Cecil Taylor; by Don Heckman
  • V.S.O.P.: The Quintet; by Jerry DeMuth
  • Art Pepper: The Trip; by Eric Levin
  • Mary Lou Williams: The Asch Recordings; Mary Lou Williams: Free Spirits; by Tom Piazza

On The Record

Thumbnail reviews by Randy Savicky

Books

  • John Hammond with Irving Townsend: John Hammond On Record: An Autobiography; by Randy Savicky

Waxings

By Jeff Barr

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

[Shopping in Japan]

Soundings

By Harry Pearson

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

Rehearsal Bands

By Bill Schremp

[Repertoire]

Woodshed: Ed Xiques Saxophone Embouchure Exercise

By Carl Strommen

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 2, Number 3 (Spring 1978)


And Now, the Emerging Wacko Countess Carla Bley!!!

Interview and photos by Sy Johnson; cover graphic by Bob Delboy

Red Garland Returns From Exile

Interview by Herb Wong

Smithsonian Oral History: A Look at the Program and a Sample Interview

Article by Fred Frailey; Interview by Milt Hinton

Insight: Jazz Marshall Plan

Article by Donald J. Brewer

Letters

Notes

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Congress Pushing NEA on Jazz, by Sid Cassese
  • Last Ditch Efforts Run Out For New York Jazz Museum, by Jean Schindler
  • Jazz Baptism
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Remembering Rahsaan, by Randy Savicky
  • Notes from All Over
  • Acoustic Duo on Tour: Corea and Hancock, by Randy Savicky
  • B.G., Carnegie 1938-1978, by Ira Gitler
  • Hiptionary, by Elliot Horne and Ian Dove
  • Lesotho Jazz Festival Report, by Larry Ridley
  • Festival Roundup: Past and Future
  • Reflections: Sonny Rollins, by Tom Piazza
  • On the Recording Scene
  • Jazz on TV: Tale of 5 Women…, by Nancy Yanes Hoffman
  • …And ‘Big Band Bash’, by John Farris
  • Jazz on the Radio: Good News in Chicago…
  • …And Bad in San Francisco

Gallery: Charles Mingus Atlantic Recording Session

Text and photos by Sy Johnson

First Take: Tony Scott

By Burt Korall

Reviews

  • Carla Bley Band: European Tour 1977; by Tom Stites
  • Hamiet Bluiett: Birthright; by Randy Savicky
  • Kenny Drew: Everything I Love; & N.H.O. Pederson: Duo; Duo II; Duo Live In Concert; If You Could See Me Now; Morning; by Walter Parker
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family; by Sid Cassese
  • Booker Ervin: The Book Cooks; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Bill Evans: Alone (Again); by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Montreux ’77; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Dexter Gordon: Sophisticated Giant; by Bill Kirchner
  • Marty Grosz & Wayne Wright: Let Your Fingers Do The Walking; by Tom Stites
  • Jan Hammer Group: Melodies; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Jay McShann: Last of the Blue Devils; by Tom Stites
  • Keith Jarrett: Hymns/Spheres; Staircase; Byablue; The Survivors’ Suite; by Randy Savicky
  • Joni Mitchell: Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Fusion from the Country; by Jerry DeMuth
  • Ralph Towner Solstice: Sound And Shadows; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Charlie Ventura Sextet: Chazz ’77; by Bruce H. Klauber
  • Contemporary Masters on Columbia; by Randy Savicky
  • Three from CTI: David Matthews: Dune; Art Farmer: Something You Got; Urbie Green: Senor Blues; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Savoy Reissues; by Ed Levine

On The Record

Thumbnail reviews by Randy Savicky

Waxings

By Bill Esposito

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

[Collecting experiences]

Woodshed: Charlie Parker’s “Embraceable You” Take 1 & 2 Solo Transcriptions

By Carl Strommen

Rehearsal Bands

By Bill Schremp

[Repertoire]

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 2, Number 4 (Summer 1978)


Eubie!! Mr. Ragtime Talks Jazz

Interview and photos by Frederick G. Vogel

Phil Woods, King of the Alto

Interview by Herb Wong; cover graphic by Bob Delboy

Success Story: Self-Made Records

Article by Ted Fox

[Errol Parker, JCOA/NMDS, Joe Ruddick, Rashied Ali, et al.]

Toward a Jazz History

Analysis by Stanley Dance

[Leroy Ostransky: Understanding Jazz; Frank Tirro: Jazz: A History; James Lincoln Collier: The Making Of Jazz: A Comprehensive History]

Letters

Notes

  • The President Sings Jazz
  • Developments on the Recording Scene
  • Double Platinum, by Aaron Fuchs
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’, by Sy Johnson
  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • SRO for George Russell’s Big Band, by Burt Korall
  • Apartment Building Band, by Sam Silver
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Notes from All Over

Festivals

  • Newport at 25: Evolution Continues, by Don Nelsen
  • Women’s Jazz Festival, by Carol Flake
  • Berkeley, by Herb Wong
  • Concord, by Herb Wong
  • Hampton, by Sid Cassese
  • Spoleto USA, by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Roundup of Festival News

Gallery: Sonny Stitt

Text and photos by John A. Mitchell

First Take: Ted Curson

By Burt Korall

Books

  • Burt Goldblatt: Newport Jazz Festival; by Randy Savicky
  • Mercer Ellington with Stanley Dance: Duke Ellington In Person; Maurice Waller & Anthony Calabrese: Fats Waller; by Dick Zander

Reviews

  • Air: Air Time; by Walter Parker
  • John Abercrombie: Characters; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Charles Austin & Joe Gallivan: Peace On Earth; by Chip Stern
  • The ABC/Impulse Dedication Series; by Randy Savicky
  • Richie Beirach: Hubris; by Bob Suter
  • Joanne Brackeen: Tring-a-ling; by Chip Stern
  • Eric Dolphy: The Berlin Concerts; by Chip Stern
  • Herbie Hancock: Sunlight; by Sy Johnson
  • Freddie Hubbard: Super Blue; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Keith Jarrett: Bop-Be; Keith Jarrett: My Song; by Sy Johnson
  • David Earle Johnson: Time Is Free; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Charlie Mariano: October; by Robert Henschen
  • John McLaughlin: Electric Guitarist; by Robert Henschen
  • Pat Metheny: Pat Metheny Group; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Stan Getz Presents Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks; Zoot Sims Meets Jimmy Rowles: If I’m Lucky; Al Cohn & Jimmy Rowles: Heavy Love; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Charles Mingus: Cumbia And Jazz Fusion; by Chip Stern
  • Ron Odrich: Wood On Wood; by Bill Kirchner
  • Woody Shaw: Rosewood; by Walter Parker
  • Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor: Embraced; by Bob Blumenthal

On The Record

Thumbnail reviews by Randy Savicky

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues

Nessa Records Comes Of Age

By Jerry DeMuth

Waxings

By Dan Morgenstern

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

[Brian Rust: discography; Jan Evensmo solography]

Woodshed: John Coltrane’s “Outer World” Solo Transcription by Andrew White

By Carl Strommen

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

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