Issue 34: The Jazz Issue

COVER STORIES

ORNETTE COLEMAN + BOBBY HUTCHERSON + A TRIBUTE TO ERIC DOLPHY

INTERVIEWS

Ron Carter + Joe Chambers + Ira Gitler + Olu Dara + Lawrence Lucie + George Wein + Jeff Parker + Michael Cuscuna + Lorraine Gordon, owner of the Village Vanguard

INTERVIEW & PHOTO ESSAY

WILLIAM CLAXTON on Jazz Life

TRIBUTES

Patricia Barber on NINA SIMONE + John Corbett on PETER BROTZMANN +
Jim Dempsey on KEN VANDERMARK + Dick Buckley on TOMMY DORSEY

EXCERPTS

Ben Ratliff on JOHN COLTRANE (From Coltrane: The Story of a Sound)
Arthur Taylor talks to MILES DAVIS (From Notes and Tones)
Gary Giddins on THELONIOUS MONK (From Visions of Jazz)

ESSAYS

"Empty Forest Blues" by Phil Schaap
"Letter From New Orleans: The Story of the Hot 8 Brass Band" by Richmond Eustis
"Costuming the Super Anti-Hero: Sun Ra & Moondog" by Jamie Hayes
"Keith Jarrett, Cross-Referencer" by Jonathan Rosenbaum

VISUAL RESPONSE

Art director and critic STEVEN HELLER offers his impressions on the designs of classic jazz record sleeves

FILM

Seymour Cassel and Al Ruban on JOHN CASSAVETES + Edward Bland on
The Cry of Jazz + Essential jazz DVDs

& MORE