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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Roland Kirk: Doesn't Fit Into The Avant Garde
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 November 1966
JAZZ snobs have been hit hard by the arrival of Roland Kirk the Magnificent. Roland's music lurches crazily, but creatively from the humorous to the ...
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 ...
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, ...
Sarah Vaughan: Madame Butterfly
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 21 September 1963
MAX JONES talks to a new-look SARAH VAUGHAN ...
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 ...
Horace Silver: Eyes for the Writing Scene
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 23 November 1968
"I'D like to mention a new direction in my career." This was Horace Silver, talking at a Blue Note reception given for him at Ronnie ...
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 ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
ORGANIST JIMMY SMITH TELLS MAX JONES ABOUT HIS FIRST LOVE ...
Erroll Garner: Mr Garner and his New Brass Bed
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 May 1969
ERROLL GARNER arrived in London on Tuesday, last week, but not to appear in public. ...
Jimmy McGriff: McGriff An Organ Player For All Ears
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 January 1968
WILD — THAT was the reaction to U.S. organ star Jimmy McGriff when he played his first-ever appearances in London this week. ...
Jimmy Witherspoon: A New Look For Spoon And Back To Authentic Blues
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 12 April 1969
IT WAS clear at first glance, when Jimmy Witherspoon and his wife walked into the MM offices last week, that I was confronted by a new-look Spoon. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cecil Taylor: For Cecil Taylor, It's Just Beginning...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
EMERGING FROM the stage door of the Odeon, Hammersmith after his triumphal Jazz Expo concert on Friday night, the diminutive figure of pianist Cecil Taylor ...
Sarah Vaughan: Why Miss Vaughan Isn't Recording...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 1 November 1969
IF SARAH Vaughan never sang another heavenly high note she'd have earned her place, and a top place, among the immortals of jazz singing. ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: John Stevens: A Sadder But Wiser Avant Gardist
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 February 1967
JOHN STEVENS has come back a sadder but wiser man from the so-called "avant garde scene" in Copenhagen. Stevens, drummer-organiser of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, ...
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 ...
Ben Webster: Reminiscing with Big Ben
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 December 1968
"DID YOU ever hear about my film? It's a half-hour thing made by Johan van der Keuken for Dutch TV last year. It would be ...
Lionel Hampton: If anybody asks, tell them — Lionel is ready!
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 November 1969
LIONEL HAMPTON'S late-night appearance at Jazz Expo in London the other week caused disputation, to put it rather mildly. Some people found him exciting. Others ...
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