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Jazz Magazine – Volume 4

 

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

Volume 1

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Volume 3

Volume 4, Number 1 (Winter 1979)


Art Blakey: ‘The Key is to Play Like Hell’

Interview by Ira Gitler; cover illustration by Richard Bailey

Why Big Record Companies Let Jazz Down

Article by Peter Keepnews

How ECM Records Has Made Jazz Work For It

Manfred Eicher interview by Bob Suter

Selling Jazz LPs By Mail

By Arnold Jay Smith

Insight: Mike Nock Reflects on Early Days of Fusion

Interview by Michael Rozek

Letters

Waxings

By Dan Morgenstern

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Soundings

By Charles Graham

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

Notes

  • And Now, Heeere’s Sonny
  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Kenton’s Will: No Ghost Band, by Gordon Bock
  • Princeton Applauds Professor Benny Carter, by Bob Blumenthal
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • News of Jazz on Radio and Television, by Charles Mitchell
  • Paris, by Michael Zwerin
  • On The Recording Scene, by Jerry De Muth & Charlie Paikert
  • Notes From All Over
  • Jazz Convention Draws 200 to D.C., by Peter Keepnews

Festival Roundup

  • Ann Arbor, by David Wild
  • Artpark, by Arnold Jay Smith
  • Atlanta, by Angelo Lewis
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Monterey, by Herb Wong

First Take: Art Pepper

By Burt Korall

Woodshed: Art Blakey from Different Drummers

By Billy Mintz

Gallery: Dizzy Gillespie

Photos by Veryl Oakland and Mitchell Seidel

Reviews

  • Art Blakey: In My Prime, Vol. 1; by Randy Savicky
  • Joanne Brackeen: Keyed In; by Walter Parker
  • George Coleman: Amsterdam After Dark; George Coleman & Tete Montoliu: Meditation; by Susan Fishman
  • Kenny Davern: Unexpected; by Dan Morgenstern
  • Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort; by Fred Frailey
  • Nascimento Addenda, by Sy Johnson
  • Quadrant; by James G. Shell
  • Sonny Rollins: Don’t Ask; by James G. Shell
  • Keshavan Maslak: Buddha’s Hand; Bennie Wallace: The Fourteen Bar Blues; by Robert Henschen
  • Paul McCandless: All The Mornings Bring; Oregon: Roots In The Sky; Glen Moore: Introducing Glen Moore; by Robert Henschen
  • Art Van Damme: Blue World; Frank Marocco: Jazz Accordion; by Tom Piazza
  • Flora Purim: Carry On; Gayle Moran: I Loved You Then…I Love You Now; by Mitchell Feldman
  • Weather Report: 8:30; by Neil Tesser
  • Max Roach & Anthony Braxton: Birth And Rebirth; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Commodore Resurgent, by Stanley Dance
[Eddie Condon: Windy City Seven & Jam Sessions At Commodore; Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow; Coleman Hawkins: The Chocolate Dandies & Leonard Feather’s Allstars; Lester Young: Kansas City Six & Five; Ben Webster & Don Byas: Two Kings Of The Tenor Sax; Wild Bill Davison: That’s a-Plenty; Jack Teagarden & Max Kaminsky: Big T & Mighty Max; Bud Freeman: Three’s No Crowd; Jelly Roll Morton: New Orleans Memories Plus Two; Mel Powell & Joe Bushkin: The World Is Waiting]
  • Europe’s MOOD Records, by W. Patrick Hinely
[Larry Coryell: Standing Ovation; Wolfgang Dauner: Changes; Martin Kolbe & Ralf Illenberger: Waves; Gunter Lenz Springtime: Znel; United Jazz + Rock Ensemble: Live In Schutzenhaus]
  • Hamiet Bluiett: SOS; Oliver Lake & Julius Hemphill: Buster Bee; David Murray: 3D Family; World Saxophone Quartet: Steppin’; by Don Heckman

On The Record

Thumbnail reviews by Randy Savicky

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 1980)


Cityscape: Detroit

By Gregory Jakub

Why It’s So Hard to Find Jazz on the Radio

By Charles Mitchell

Jazz Alive! Helps in the Search

By Ed Newton

Insight: Young Fletcher Henderson

By Margery P. Dews

The Self-Renewing Sonny Rollins

Interview by David Weiss; cover painting by Bob Delboy from a photography by Bruce W. Talamon

Letters

From the Editor

Idle Threats

By Tom Piazza

Waxings

By Bill Esposito

Clues in the search for hard-to-get records

Soundings

By Charles Graham

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

Bookings

Where major groups are playing nationally

Rehearsal Bands

By Bill Schremp

Notes

  • New York, by Ira Gitler
  • Paris, by Michael Zwerin
  • On the Recording Scene
  • Los Angeles, by Harvey Siders
  • Chicago, by Jerry DeMuth
  • Notes from All Over
  • Hiptionary, by Elliot Horne & Ian Dove
  • Jazz on Radio and Television, by Mitchell Seidel & Peter Keepnews
  • Aida Chapman: The Voice For Jazz in the Government, by Sid Cassese
  • Western Regional Federation of Jazz Begins Taking Shape
  • Jefferson Suspect is Acquitted, by Gregory Jakub
  • African Resort With a Jazz Policy, by Ira Gitler
  • Newport-New York Gets a New Sponsor
  • Roundup of What Festivals Are Playing

Books

  • Stanley Baron: Benny, King Of Swing; Chris Goddard: Jazz Away From Home; by Richard M. Sudhalter
  • Josef Skvorecky: The Bass Saxophone; by Bob Suter
  • Sheldon Harris: Blues Who’s Who; by Ed Levine

First Take: Sheila Jordan

By Burt Korall

Gallery: Backstage at the 1979 Playboy Jazz Festival

Photos by Bruce Talamon

Woodshed: Transcription and Analysis of Sonny Rollins’s solo on “Pent-Up House”

By David Wild

Reviews

  • George Adams: Sound Suggestions; by Mitchell Feldman
  • Count Basie: Basie Jam 3; by Terry Teachout
  • Arthur Blythe: In The Tradition; Arthur Blythe: Metamorphosis; by Neil Tesser
  • Dave Brubeck: Back Home; by James G. Shell
  • Joe Farrell: Skateboard Park; by Peter Keepnews
  • Stan Getz: Children Of The World; Stan Getz: Early Getz; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: And UMO; Mel Lewis & The Jazz Orchestra: Naturally; by Sy Johnson
  • Egberto Gismonti: Solo; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • McCoy Tyner: Passion Dance; Stanley Cowell: Equipoise; by Walter Parker
  • Jay Hoggard: Days Like These; Jay Hoggard: Solo Vibraphone; by David Jackson
  • Michael Gregory Jackson: Heart & Center; by Bob Blumenthal
  • Bob James & Earl Klugh: One On One; by Robert Henschen
  • Cecil McBee: Alternate Spaces; Cecil McBee: Music From The Source; by W. Patrick Hinely
  • Dave McKenna: Giant Strides; Dave McKenna: No Bass Hit; by Fred Bouchard
  • Old And New Dreams; by James G. Shell
  • Mary Lou Williams: My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me; Mary Lou Williams: Solo Recital; by George Kanzler, Jr.
  • Miles Davis Re-evaluated, by Charles Mitchell
[Miles In Tokyo; Miles In Berlin; At Plugged Nickel Volumes I & II; Black Beauty: Miles Davis At Fillmore West; Dark Magus; Pangaea; Circle In The Round]
  • Hank Jones: Ain’t Misbehavin’; Clark Terry: Ain’t Misbehavin’; by Sy Johnson
  • Richie Cole: Keeper Of The Flame; Red Rodney: Home Free; David Schnitter: Thundering; by Peter Keepnews
  • The Vogue Label’s Legacy, by Dan Morgenstern
[Clifford Brown: The Paris Collection; Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz; Johnny Hodges: The Rabbit In Paris; Django Reinhardt: The Versatile Giant; Zoot Sims: Brother In Swing; Mary Lou Williams: First Lady Of The Piano; J.J. Johnson & Milt Jackson: A Date In New York; Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: When A Soprano Meets A Piano; Buck Clayton: Passport To Paradise; Dizzy Gillespie: Havin’ A Good Time In Paris]

On The Record

Thumbnail reviews by Randy Savicky

Time Capsules

Reviews of reissues

Fragments

By Vincent Pelote

Answers to your jazz history questions

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