JT Notes
August/September 2009 By Lee Mergner
JazzTimes Returns: Share the Passion
The JazzTimes issue you hold in your hands may not look any different from recent editions, but in fact it’s the result of a very special transformation. For the last 39 years, the magazine was owned and run by the Sabin family—first Ira Sabin, who founded...
May 2009 By Evan Haga
Zorn Again
Come on, admit it: When you saw this month’s JazzTimes in your mailbox or on the newsstand, you were surprised—maybe even shocked. In this issue, we’re proud to offer extensive coverage of iconoclast John Zorn. Not only did Bill Milkowski secure a candid...
April 2009 By Jeff Tamarkin
Notes From Underground
Let me tell you about some of the music I’ve been digging lately. First, there’s that burning set featuring Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones from Berlin, 1987. Joshua Redman’s recent double-trio engagement at New York’s Highline Ballroom and...
March 2009 By Lee Mergner
First Words on Last Words
What does it say about me that I enjoy putting together this issue with its tributes to those important figures who died during the past year? Call me morbid or, better yet, respectful, but this annual issue with its Farewells has been a great source of...
January/February 2009 By Evan Haga
Time After Time
Niche magazines are strange creatures. JazzTimes, as we must begrudgingly admit, falls into that category. The music and culture we cover, like any insular art form tucked away from mass media and able to transcend politics, often seems perennially unchanged...
December 2008 By Lee Mergner
Checking His List Twice
JT's editor talks with Tony Bennett about his annual Christmas card painting
November 2008 By Evan Haga
David Sanborn, Drum Legend
I swear we try to hold these theme issues together, but great stuff just sort of gets in the way. This drum-themed book is a perfect example, with its cover story on—percussion legend David Sanborn? Oops. I’m still confident we’ll delight drum nuts: We have...
October 2008 By Evan Haga
Higher-Register Education
The end of summer at JT means a mad dash to assemble the two books you just received in the time allotted for one. Not the best conditions, yet every year I’m pleased with the results, and think you’ll be too. The October brass-themed issue is packed with...
September 2008 By Evan Haga
New Visions of Jazz
Welcome to the New Visionaries issue, our thinly veiled version of the compulsory “Where Is Jazz Headed?” edition. We hope the answer provided here is hopeful; it was laborious choosing from a grand pool of hotshot young players, mainly because we strived...
August 2008 By Evan Haga
For Those About to Jazz-Rock…
In a 1991 Village Voice column by Gary Giddins on drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, the author makes the point that fusion, despite its outsized popular following, doesn’t have much to show for critical reception. “[V]irtually all commentary is focused on...
