DEC 10 / JAN 11Contents Regulars

4-8 News Led Bib gear up for new album… Phil Robson to tour with Mark Turner… highly anticipated new project from former EST drummer Magnus Öström… Meadow debut… and all the latest news and gossip from the world of jazz

Features 10 New Jazz Sessions CD All the track listing details for this month’s superb covermount CD from Yamaha

22 Denys BaptisteBackwithasuperbnewalbum Identity By Subtraction, the saxophonist with that indefinably personal, heartfelt sound talks to Stuart Nicholson

14 The Way It is Forget 2010 – 1940 was where it was at, says Stuart Nicholson

20 Taking Off Sax player Amy Gamlen and singer Sara Mitra are the ones to watch this month

31 Turning Point Singer Barb Jungr on the album that changed her life

40-59 CD Reviews 60-61 Books 63 The Player Gareth Williams talks about his preferred piano and guitar choices

64 Instrument Reviews All the latest instrument reviews and news

66-67 Live Reviews 68-70 Gig Guide Your essential guide to December and January’s must-see gigs

72 Subscriptions Save money and grab a free Edition Records CD

13 Istanbul CallingMovingandshakingat Istanbul’s Akbank Jazz Festival for the EJN gathering

16 Way Ahead Find out who’s going to make waves in 2011

18 Albums of the Year The votes are in: who will win in the annual writers poll of new releases and reissues?

26 Art Blakey A previously unpublished interview by Roy Carr with the great drummer who died 20 years ago

32 Cassandra WilsonExclusiveinterviewwith the jazz singer whose album Silver Pony taps into a deep seam of blues, soul and standards

36 AGreat Day in Trafalgar SquareAwho’swhoofjazzmusicians gathered in Trafalgar Square nearly 50 years ago as seen on a recently uncovered photo

74 Letters Write in – have your say

38 Gilad AtzmonForgetpoliticssaysGilad Atzmon, whose new album The Tide Has Changed represents a new phase in the saxman’s ever more high profile career

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