January 2020

Features

• Clark Terry

  Eternal Teacher

  By Stephanie Jones

  Apart from being one of the most distinctively melodic voices in the trumpet lineage, Terry remained a fierce ally of emerging artists throughout his career.

• Shelly Manne

  Bold Moves From Behind the Kit

  By Lloyd Sachs

  A case can be made that no other drummer of his era had, in today’s parlance, a stronger “brand” than Manne.

• Yusef Lateef

  The Evolutionist

  By Mark Stryker

  Lateef, the Detroit-bred multi-instrumentalist and composer, was a musician of Walt Whitman-esque multitudes.

Blindfold Test

Miles Okazaki was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:

• Tom Guarna: “Hope” from The Wishing Stones (Destiny)
• Thumbscrew: “Thumbprint” from Ours (Cuneiform)
• Russell Malone: “Time For The Dancers” from Time For The Dancers (HighNote)
• Jonathan Kreisberg/Nelson Veras: “Bye-Ya” from Kreisberg Meets Veras (New For Now Music)
• David Gilmore: “Over Shadow Hill Way” from Energies Of Change (Evolutionary Music)
• Julian Lage: “Look Book” from Modern Lore (Mack Avenue)

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