A Long Look At Stan Getz (part 2)

Part Two of Don DeMicheal's feature on Stan Getz from Down Beat (June 2, 1966). Part One is here. Click on the image to view PDF of full article. More vintage magazine articles can be found here.

A Long Look At Stan Getz (part 1)

Part one of Don DeMicheal's feature on Stan Getz from Down Beat (May 19, 1966). Stay tuned for Part Two. Click on the image to view PDF of full article. More vintage magazine articles can be found here.

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics

This famous (and often quoted) article from the April 12, 1962 issue of Down Beat. The title sums things up and looking back now it can be hard to image all of the fuss. Click on the image to view PDF of the full article. More vintage magazine articles can be found here.

Coltrane on Coltrane - Down Beat September 1960

The preparation of this post was accompanied by Coltrane's "classic quartet" performance of "Out of this World" at the Showboat in Philadelphia in 1963 - someone had posted it to Facebook (via Youtube) and it seemed like the right choice as I got his birthday post together. In this article from the September 29, 1960 issue of Down Beat, John Coltrane (along with Don DeMicheal) speaks of the influence of Lester Young, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie and Earl Bostic; his tenure with Thelonious Monk before returning to Miles Davis (as Miles started working with modality) as well as some of his harmonic concepts. Coltrane mentions he recently purchased a soprano saxophone but that he is not satisfied with his tone just yet - we all know that feeling!

Here's a list of links to previous vintage articles.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Road To Frustration - Down Beat Feature 1963

Here is Don DeMicheal's profile of Roland Kirk (b. Aug 7, 1935) that appeared in the May 22, 1963 issue of Down Beat Magazine. Click on the image to view full article as PDF. Here are more vintage magazine articles.