Contents

Essays

John Shand The longest poem: forty years of ECM

Andrew Lindsay The Fearless Note NJWC Winner

Roger Mitchell Facing the music: the critic under review NJWC Editor’s Choice

Helen O’Brien Four improvisations on Keith Jarrett’s ‘Köln Cocert’, 1975

Amanda Hodder Seeing the sky

In conversation

Elliott Dalgliesh with Marc Hannaford

Phil Slater with Michael Webb

Five Australian jazz singers

Alyn Shipton with Peter Jordan

Verbatim

Adrian Jackson My lunch with Serge (and Joe)

John Clare ‘I Cutta the balls off!’ Becoming a professional writer

Gunter Hampel For Rashied Ali

Fiction

Virginia Lloyd Smells like Teen Spirit

Visuals

Laki Sideris

Sharka Bosakova

Poetry

Geoff Page What key’s the conversation in?

PS Cottier The point of jazz

Ashley Capes tiger shells

Paul Squires Loci

Arjun von Caemmerer Parallel Motion

Arjun von Caemmerer Edgar’s Eyebrows

Noëlle Janaczewska Learning (to love) the clarinet

Reprints

Recollections two: Rashied Ali Phil Treloar

Joe Zawinul in conversation with Matt McMahon (2002)

The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address 2008 by Sandy Evans

Bonus CD (Courtesy of Jazzhead records)

Jazzhead Records: The fine arts of music by Roger Mitchell

Q&A with Jazzhead’s Andrew Walker