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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 ...
Duke Ellington: Concert Of Sacred Music (RCA)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 31 December 1966
Hot jazz and religion in a ducal mixture ...
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 ...
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 ...
Duke Ellington: When Duke Shared the Bill with the Cheeky Chappie
Retrospective by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 23 December 1967
THE JAZZ ARCHIVES: ELLINGTON AT THE PALLADIUM BY MAX JONES ...
Mose Allison: Down Home Piano (Transatlantic PR7423)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 11 February 1967
MOSE ALLISON and his work are both pretty well known by now to jazz and blues lovers over here. This album, to set down first ...
Billie Holiday: Lady Day — the True Sound of Soul
Memoir by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 2 August 1969
MAX JONES writes on the tenth anniversary of Billie Holiday's death ...
Duke Ellington: Guildhall, Portsmouth
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 11 February 1967
DUKE ALWAYS HAS A TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 10 February 1962
QUINCY JONES — in London for a flying visit — grabs a word with MAX JONES ...
Aretha Franklin: Aretha (UK Fontana TFL 5173)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 3 March 1962
'Won't be Long'; 'Over The Rainbow'; 'Love Is The Only Thing'; 'Sweet Lover'; 'All Night Long'; 'Who Needs You?'; 'Right Now'; 'Maybe I'm A Fool'; ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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