When You Get There.....

David Liebman was featured in the October 11, 1973 issue of Down Beat. This is from right around the time he recorded Lookout Farm for ECM. ...

Paul Keegan's feature article on Evan Parker for the April 1987 issue of Down Beat magazine. Click on the image to view PDF of the full...

From the September 9, 1965 issue of Down Beat, here is Dan Morgenstern's feature on Paul Desmond.  Click on the image to view PDF of the...

This interview from August 1986 issue of Cadence features a fairly young Steve Coleman. This is the earliest interview I have found so far, ...

Over the past couple of years I have finally managed to give Jan Garbarek more than just a passing listen - mostly his work from the 70s and...

A couple of months ago I was browsing Coda Magazine and I came across some articles by my friend Mark Weber. First up is an interview with B...

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 ful...

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 ...

This month I have been listening to a few albums by Yusef Lateef ( Jazz Moods, Before Dawn, Into Something, Eastern Sounds and  1984  have a...

As a youngster just getting into jazz, Mike Nock (b. Sept 27, 1940) was the first New Zealand jazz musician I was aware of who had "m...

This is Ted Panken's transcription of Ed Scarvalone's interview with Max Roach on WKCR-FM from January 22, 1979. The discussion foc...

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015). His music made quite an impact on me in high school after picking up  The S...

I came across this interview with Gary Smulyan and immediately thought of a baritone playing friend back in New Zealand. Whenever I saw him ...

Nineteen + Conversations with Jazz Musicians: New York City 1964 1965 by Garth W. Caylor Jr. arrived in the mail a couple of weeks ago. T...

In this feature from October 30, 1958, Lennie Tristano (b. March 19, 1919) discusses his return to live performances and plans to open a jaz...

From the February 25, 1965 issue of Down Beat comes Nat Hentoff's feature on Cecil Taylor (b.March 15, 1929). The two cover topics inclu...

I thought a double-header was appropriate on the birthday of these two saxophonists - Sonny Stitt (b.1924) and Stan Getz (b.1927). The Stitt...

A while back I was searching for interviews with  John Zorn  and I stumbled across Dave Douglas '  Greenleaf Music  podcast serie...

Clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman has some great podcasts on his website - 5049 Records . Earlier in the week I had a listen to him chatting w...

Peter Brotzmann - We Thought We Could Change The World: Conversations with Gerard Rouy  (Wolke Verlag Hofheim, 2014) While Brotzmann'...