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Frank Sinatra, Count Basie: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie: An Historical Musical First (Reprise)

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 February 1963

Sinatra-Basie in Depth: Peter Jones highlights a Great New Album from Sinatra and The Count ...

Ella Fitzgerald: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Ian Dove, NME, 1 March 1963

Ella Throws 'Loop De Loop' Away ...

Kenny Ball, Kingston Trio, The: Kenny Ball talks about the Kingston Trio

Profile and Interview by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 12 April 1963

JAZZMAN KENNY Ball is happy about appearing with America's top folk group, the Kingston Trio... a group he saw on his recent American tour. ...

Sammy Davis Jr.: Palladium, London

Live Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 20 April 1963

SAM'S A WHAM! ...

Gerry Mulligan: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 26 April 1963

Melodic Mulligan ...

Kenny Ball, Heinz: Kenny Ball and Heinz on the Film Set

Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 21 June 1963

ONE HOUR'S worth of story, 20 minutes of music (including Kenny Ball's new hit 'Rondo') is the way they've planned Britain's latest pop film, Live ...

Oscar Brown Jr.: A Very Cheerful Man Is Oscar Cicero Brown

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 June 1963

OSCAR BROWN JR. is an extremely cheerful person. From his riotously checked shirt to his shoes with funny little thongs at the side, he exudes ...

Nat King Cole: Welcome Back to Nat 'King' Cole

Profile by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 5 July 1963

INCREDIBLE — but in December, 1940, in a Hollywood recording studio, Nat "King" Cole made the first of many hit discs, 'Sweet Lorraine'. It is ...

Nat King Cole: Great Jazzman To Great Businessman

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 20 July 1963

SOFT LIGHTS, a smoke-hazed atmosphere, gentleness, smooth (and, if you're a susceptible girl, spine-tingling) singing. ...

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, ...

Jimmy Smith: Hobo Flats (Verve VLP9039)

Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 12 October 1963

Big band backing lifts organ tracks ...

Quincy Jones: One Of The Greatest!

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963

SITTING IN a deserted recording studio at Philips, listening to the playback of a just-completed session by the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra, Quincy Jones – trumpeter, ...

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. ...

Sammy Davis Jr.: 'Me and the Beatles'

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 28 March 1964

SAMMY DAVIS TALKS TO DAVID GRIFFITHS ...

Jimmy Witherspoon: All About Spoon — And How He Got Another Chance

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 June 1964

JIMMY WITHERSPOON is a gigantic man of 41 with great bristling eyebrows and moustaches and a large winning smile. Intimates and admirers call him Spoon. ...

Cannonball Adderley Aims Sax at Record Market

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Billboard, 24 October 1964

HOLLYWOOD — Julian (Cannonball) Adderley, a new jazz pactee with Capitol, is mapping plans to become a busy recording cat. The influential saxophonist feels his ...

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, ...

Nat King Cole: The Lesson I Learned When They Told Me The Truth

Interview by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 12 February 1965

TALKING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS GRAVE ILLNESS TO IVOR DAVIS, HOLLYWOOD, THURSDAY. ...

Nat King Cole: Unforgettable

Obituary by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 16 February 1965

Nat King Cole dies and an era comes to an end ...