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Buddy Guy
Recharged & Rebuilding
By Aaron Cohen
Buddy Guy can rock any club—especially his own—with his guitar, and he speaks volumes offstage, too. The blues hero sat down with DownBeat to talk about his plans for the coming year, what he’s learned from his mentors and how much he still loves gospel.
Features
Eric Bibb
Have Guitar, Will Journey
By Frank-John Hadley
An unexpected encounter with a 1930s National Reso-Phonic steelbodied guitar inspired Bibb to record his strongest album to date.
Joe Henry
Connoisseur’s Blend
By Lloyd Sachs
A singer and songwriter grounded in pop tradition, Henry creates excitement through his deep involvement in other genres. The one that brings out the musical connoisseur in him is jazz.
Myron Walden
Windows Wide Open
By Ted Panken
After a sabbatical that he devoted to raising his game on the tenor and soprano saxophones and composing pieces suitable for those instruments, Walden is releasing several albums of original material on his new imprint label, Demi Sound.
Players
Eric Revis
Erik Deutsch
Akira Sakata
Ben Perowsky
Blindfold Test
Keyboardist George Duke was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:
- Cannonball Adderley: “Dizzy’s Business” from The Cannonball Adderley Sextet In New York (Riverside/Concord)
- Ledisi: “You And Me” from Lost & Found (Verve Forecast)
- Frank Zappa: “The Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)” from Zappa Wazoo (Vauter Native Records)
- Robert Glasper: “All Matter” from Double Booked (Blue Note)
- Herbie Hancock: “Fat Mama” from Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner Bros.)
- Hank Jones: “Handful Of Keys” from Handful Of Keys: The Music Of Thomas “Fats” Waller (Verve)
Also In This Issue
Miles Davis Columbia Box Set, Classic Interview with Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield (Aug. 7, 1969), WBGO’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Jazz Photographer Ted Williams R.I.P., European Scene, Asian-American Jazz Festival Caught, Edgefest Caught, Umbrella Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music Caught, Steve Lehman’s Home Studio, Bluey Maunick’s Home Studio, Thelonious Monk Solo Transcription, Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Dozens of CD Reviews, Product Reviews, and much more!
