September2011ContentsRegulars

4–10 News London Jazz Festival adds more names… Gwilym Simcock nominated for a Mercury… Cork Jazz Festival unveils line-up… and all the latest news and gossip from the world of jazz

14 The Way It Is Stuart Nicholson recalls a mysterious jazz musician whose lifestyle ultimately proved his undoing

15 Jazz On Film Crime In The Streets is this month’s choice 18–19 Taking Off Pianist Tigran and singer Alexander Stewart are the ones to watch 30 Turning Point Pianist Hiromi on the album that changed her life

36–50 CD Reviews Over 100 CDs reviewed including albums by Robert Mitchell, Tigran, John Coltrane, and many more 52 DVD Reviews 55 The Player Martin France on his favourite drums

56 Instrument Reviews All the latest instrument reviews and news

58 Live Reviews 60 Gig Guide Your essential guide to this month’s must-see gigs

Features 20 Arun GhoshRadicallyalteringtheuse of clarinet in contemporary jazz and rapidly developing his own exciting Indo-jazz style, Arun Ghosh explains to Stuart Nicholson his thinking behind new album Primal Odyssey

24 Jacqui DankworthThesingertalksaboutherfeelings of loss following the passing of her father Sir John Dankworth, and how she used some of his music to transformative effect on her new album

28 Leszek MozdzerThestarPolishpianistembarks on a journey to the heart and soul of Komeda, the talismanic jazz composer from his native land

32 Robert MitchellThetalentedpianistreturns with a stand-out post-modern trio album featuring a stirring version of Aphex Twin’s ‘Alberto Balsam’

34 Terri-Lyne Carrington

With a who’s who of leading female jazz talent delivering some fine performances, new album The Mosaic Project is a career high for the fine drummer Terri-Lyne Carrington

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