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Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 10 February 1962
QUINCY JONES — in London for a flying visit — grabs a word with MAX JONES ...
Sarah Vaughan: Madame Butterfly
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 21 September 1963
MAX JONES talks to a new-look SARAH VAUGHAN ...
Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan: Music In The Making: Quincy Jones — Sarah Makes It All Worth While
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 12 October 1963
Quincy Jones, who spent last week in London enjoying the sights and sounds by day and night, is one of music's all-rounders. Bandleader, composer, arranger, publisher, ...
Duke Ellington: "They're trying to make me a piano player. I'll have to start practising..."
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 1 February 1964
MELODY MAKER'S MAX JONES PHONES DUKE ELLINGTON IN THE STATES ON THE EVE OF HIS BRITISH TOUR. ...
Ben Webster: Talking of love...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 2 January 1965
EVERYBODY TALKS about Ben Webster's big sound, but I don't remember about when, where and why he began to cultivate it. Between sets at Scott's, ...
Chris Barber: Now They Can Tell The Difference
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 11 September 1965
CHRIS BARBER, who has been leading bands off and on for sixteen years, still approaches the business with youthful enthusiasm. In spite of beat booms, ...
Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie: in from the storm
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 4 December 1965
DIZZY GILLESPIE was in benevolent mood when he met the press at his Mayfair hotel. Smiling amiably between mouthfuls of Worthington, he gave the impression ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sonny Rollins: Rick Laird: Musicians Over Here Sound As If They're Stuck
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
LONDON — LATEST in a long line of British jazz musicians to trek to the United States is twenty-four-year-old Rick Laird, resident bassist at London's ...
Mose Allison: A Chunk Of Indian Music In 'I Got Rhythm' Isn't A Jazz Influence
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 29 January 1966
LONDON — MOSE ALLISON, Mississippi piano player now ending a two-week cabaret season at Annie's Room in London, is not quite the figure you expect ...
Modern Jazz Quartet, The, Swingle Singers, Les: Modern Jazz Quartet: Sitting Tight On The Format
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 24 September 1966
JOHN LEWIS, amiable but reticent leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, is that rare bird in jazz, a musician who doesn't like talking about himself. ...
Horace Silver: Just Quit While You're Ahead
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 1 October 1966
ALREADY, AND in spite of the excessively rough luck of having his place of employment burned down on the opening night of his first British ...
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: Fully paid up in the hod carrier's union
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 October 1966
DAVE LAMBERT, 49-year-old jazz singer, composer and vocal arranger who was killed by a passing truck on the Connecticut Turnpike last week, was regarded as ...
Stan Tracey: So Busy Doing Nothing...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 October 1966
JUST OVER a year ago, when I was interviewing Stan Tracey, I asked whether he would consider playing piano in a non-jazz place if his ...
Duke Ellington: Suites in a Hotel Suite
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 18 February 1967
DUKE ELLINGTON is a musician who composes tirelessly in his own way and in his own time — which means according to the circumstances he ...
Dave Brubeck: Teo Macero: 'It May Be What Jazz Needs, The Psychedelic Touch'
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967
TEO MACERO, American Columbia A&R man, arranger, and composer of experimental music, is becoming a regular visitor to Britain. Last week he was with us ...
Humphrey Lyttelton: Humph, 20 years after
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 3 February 1968
"NO, IT can't be true," people can often be heard muttering when their eyes fall on a picture of the mature Shirley Temple or Jackie ...
Nancy Wilson: Nancy, Bread and Butter Singer
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 9 March 1968
IT SEEMS as though Nancy Wilson is always making flying visits to this country in order to appear in television programmes. Once she came here ...
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Hendricks and Ross now Seek Fame...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 13 April 1968
JON HENDRICKS, indelibly associated with the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio and the creation of a new form of jazz singing, has been experimenting with ...
Louis Armstrong: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, Part 2
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 6 July 1968
"I'VE BEEN trying to follow you for 20 years," a trumpet player was saying to Louis Armstrong in Batley the other day. Louis raised his ...
Della Reese and her Mean Uncle
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 26 October 1968
DELLA REESE, halfway through her stint as special guest artist on the Tom Jones tour, rested in London on Monday and looked forward to a ...
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