DownBeat Magazine # October 2012 Volume 79, Number 10

Cover

Jeff Coffin
The Art of Openness
By Frank Alkyer
Coffin is best known as the saxophonist in Dave Matthews Band, but the three-time Grammy winner also leads his own group—the funky, free and fierce Mu’tet. Coffin juggles a career of world tours and killer side projects, all while remaining intensely dedicated to teaching the next generation of improvising musicians.

Features

John Abercrombie
The Moment Looks for You
By Dan Ouellette
The guitarist has enjoyed a profoundly successful career as a leader almost exclusively on ECM Records, including his new album, Within A Song—an homage to the music of the early ’60s.

Dr. Lonnie Smith
Soul Doctor
By Michael J. West
At the start of his eighth decade, the age-defying Hammond B3 master has founded his own record label, Pilgrimage Productions, which he has inaugurated with two new CDs : the live album The Healer and the upcoming studio release In The Beginning.

Luciana Souza
Distill Everything
By Allen Morrison
The ambitious, genre-transcending vocalist doesn’t revel in virtuosity for its own sake. She’s more interested in discovering the true essence of a song.

Where To Study Jazz 2013
Student Music Guide
More Than 175 Schools Listed

Players

Brian Bromberg
Lurrie Bell
John Fedchock
Dorothy Masuka

Blindfold Test

Vocalist Bettye LaVette was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test” :

• Aretha Franklin : “Skylark” from Laughing On The Outside (Columbia)
• Donny Hathaway : “The Ghetto” from Live (Atlantic)
• Dinah Washington : “I’ll Drown In My Own Tears” from The Swingin’ Miss D (Emarcy)
• Sarah Vaughan “In A Sentimental Mood” from After Hours (Roulette Jazz)
• Betty Wright : “Clean Up Woman” from I Love The Way You Love Me (Alston)
• David Ruffin : “The Rovin’ Kind” from David Ruffin (Motown)
• Janelle Monáe : “Tightrope” from The Archandroid (Bad Boy/Atlantic)

Also In This Issue

2013 NEA Jazz Masters ; Gent Jazz Festival Caught ; Sean Jones Group Caught ; Miles Davis Postage Stamp ; Dee Alexander ; George Garzone Master Class ; Matt Shevitz Pro Session ; Rudresh Mahanthappa Transcription ; YES Academy Iraq ; plus Dozens of CD Reviews, Product Reviews and Much More !