Includes a bonus CD from Jazzgroove Records!

Contents

In Conversation

John Rodgers with Linda Neil | Erik Griswold with Peter Knight | Adrian Sherriff with Michael Webb | Ornette Coleman with John Kruth

Essays

Graeme Kinross-Smith Jazz Story Confessional | Jorge Sotirios Caves & Joints

Poetry (including winners of the 2010 National Jazz Writing Competition)

 

Geoff Page El Rocco 1959 | Geoff Page A Manual of Style | Ross Clark (njwc first prize 2010) The Death of Jazz | Kevin Gillam (NJWC second prize 2010) twelve bar blues | Philip Harvey (NJWC third prize 2010) Saturday Afternoons | Andrew Lindsay The Music of all Things | Monica Goldberg Midnight hands | Nathan Shepherdson arrows out of sounds | PS Cottier A very big blackboard | Matt Lacorcia Nightspot | Helen Lambert Flat Jazz | Ann-Marie Rudd I Sing. | Noëlle Janaczewska Zuiderzee | Francesca Sasnaitis For Scott Tinkler | Francesca Sasnaitis For Phil Bywater | Robyn Mathison Jam Session | Veronica Lake Childhood Infection | John Kruth no second takes | Arjun von Caemmerer Sonic Diction | Arjun von Caemmerer Suzuki Method | Kent MacCarter Revisiting Bixology (Vols 3–5), Revisiting Bixology (Vols 6–8), Revisiting Bixology (Vols 9–11)

Verbatim

John Clare UMMG: Two Miniatures For Ellington & Strayhorn | Phil Treloar Digressions – One: Imaging India | Linda Neil Bahut Achhaa in Bharatpur: A fragment | Gabrielle Bryden remembers Paul Squires  | Geoff Page How to Shut Up and Listen—or, Let a Thousand Venues Bloom

Fiction

Monica Goldberg Memories of the Peace Hotel | Paul Squires Teardrop Tattoo | Pierz Newton-John The Thief | John Shand Jerry and the Jazz Musician | Keith Hounslow The Tale of a Jar, a Boy and a Clarinet

Photograph Folios

Marc Bongers: Charles Tolliver Quartet sound check and rehearsal | Brian Stewart: Café at The Gods


Book Reviews

John Shand reviews Jottings of a Jazzman:Selected Writings of Len Barnard, Loretta Barnard (ed.)

Jorge Sotirios reviews The Miles Davis Reader:Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine, Fred Alkyer (ed.),Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, Paul Mahr Jnr. (ed.)


Bonus CD Courtesy of Jazzgroove Records
Essay: Compilation by Committee by Miriam Zolin (click to read!)

Track Listing: CD inside back cover

Any queries – please email Miriam at info@extempore.com.au  Thanks!