ESSAYS
This section includes essays on various jazz subjects, written by a number of writers. Contributions are welcome. Writers interested in contributing are welcome to contact the editor by filling out the form in the CONTACT tab. Photographs to illustrate those essays are welcome. Readers can click on the INDEX button for a list of articles in this folder.
Kenny Burrell
SOME JAZZ GUITARISTS I LOVE
by Garry Lee
July 28, 2020
I am inspired to write this essay after reading my friend Ian Muldoon’s essay “I’ll String Along With You: Some Guitar Players” on Eric Myers’s website. Ian wrote subjectively and chronologically on many outstanding jazz guitarists. However he left out some significant players. … So my subjective essay concerns four jazz guitarists Ian did not cover. These four are Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Grant Green…
Joan Chamorro & Andrea Motis
JOAN CHAMORRO & JAZZ PEDAGOGY IN BARCELONA
by Viktor Zappner
July 28, 2020
In Tasmania, the iconic pianist Ian Pearce used to say that proper jazz should always have one foot in the gutter. He was rightly pointing to the origins of jazz in the mixture of African-American and European musical systems within the multi-ethnic and multi-coloured melting pot of New Orleans with its blues, spirituals, rural dances, bars and brothels. For years now I have been worrying about the possibility that well-meaning, very creative, progressive and usually highly musically educated and trained musicians will drain blues, gospel, swing and New Orleans completely out of jazz…
Bassist Freddie Logan (centre) with Mike Nock (left) & Chris Karan (right)
SOME MEMORIES OF BASSIST FREDDY LOGAN
by Ted Nettelbeck
August 5, 2020
Eric Myers writes: Very little is known of the bassist Freddy Logan who played a key role in Australian jazz following his arrival in Australia in 1956. He was a key member of two seminal groups circa late 50s/early 60s: the Australian All Stars, along with Don Burrows, Dave Rutledge, Terry Wilkinson and Ron Webber; and the 3 Out Trio, with Mike Nock and Chris Karan. In August 2020, knowing that Adelaide’s Ted Nettelbeck knew Freddy, not only in Australia, but also in the UK and Europe where Ted and Freddy lived circa 1962-65, I addressed a number of questions to Ted, in order to fill out what we know about Logan…