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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 ...
Nina Simone: 'Nuff Said (RCA Victor)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 8 February 1969
PROOF TO SILENCE THE CYNICS ...
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 ...
Nina Simone: Nina Hits With Hair
Profile by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 23 November 1968
NINA SIMONE provokes mixed reactions from the music critics of the world. Some hail her as a giant of the blues, while others, though grudgingly ...
Horace Silver: Ronnie Scott's club, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 24 September 1966
Extension of the earlier quintet ...
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 ...
Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday (World Record Club TS30)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 31 December 1966
THERE ARE FEW singers in and around jazz who continue to excite our wonder long after their death. Bessie Smith is one, and Mildred Bailey ...
Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
CECIL TAYLOR'S appearance on Friday was reminiscent of nothing as much as Ornette Coleman's Croydon concert four years ago. ...
Duke Ellington: Concert Of Sacred Music (RCA)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 31 December 1966
Hot jazz and religion in a ducal mixture ...
LeRoi Jones: Black Music (MacGibbon and Kee 36 shillings).
Book Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
IN HIS writings for Downbeat and Kulchur magazines, LeRoi Jones — poet, playwright, essayist, critic and revolutionary — provided many of the first signposts to ...
Lionel Hampton: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
NOW WE know what has been missing from jazz for the last 14 years — Lionel Hampton! It was a good time and great jazz ...
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
IT LOOKED on paper like an epic evening of swinging middle-road jazz on Tuesday. It wasn't bad, either, but it wasn't quite the berries that ...
O.C. Smith: The Revolution, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
And he triumphs, despite all, at the Revolution ...
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 ...
Rolling Stones, The, Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Oldham: Stones man digs into avant garde
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966
ROLLING STONES manager Andrew Oldham has moved into the jazz scene — the British avant garde jazz scene to boot! He plans to release an ...
Nat King Cole: You're Listening To The Nat King Cole Trio (Music For Pleasure)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 11 February 1967
WE ALL SUFFER from blind spots, I guess, so I'll confess one of mine at once and admit that I'm almost totally proof against the ...
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