Issue 36:5
May/June 2013
Magazine Contents

Jazz

Alcoholics are supposed to remember their first drink. Jazz fans such as I remember when they were first exposed to one of their idols. I heard...

Once upon a time I put together a program of short American pieces for a few friends and was struck by the number of the composers...

Not all that glitters is gold, and not all improvised music is jazz. If it were, the improvised cadenzas of a Bach, Beethoven, or Liszt would...

The sparse liner notes for this release, covering but one flap of the foldover cardboard container, indicate that this concert was part of Ellington’s last European...

This strange and difficult to use DVD, apparently issued in 2002 but only now being offered through Naxos to reviewers (at least it was for me),...