The Jazz Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (May 1959)

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Table of Contents

Sonny Rollins' Freedom Suite 10
by Dick Hadlock

Jelly Roll Morton in New York 12
by Danny Barker

The Blues and their Lesson for the Modern Poet 15
by Howard Hart

Kansas City Brass, The Story of Ed Lewis 16
as told to Frank Driggs

I Got a Witness 19
a picture story by John Cohen

Abbe Niles, pioneer jazz critic 25
by Sam Charters

REVIEWS: RECORDINGS
AHMAD JAMAL by Bill Crow 27
MANNY ALBAM by Tupper Saussy 28
ORNETTE COLEMAN by Quincy Jones 29
DUKE ELLINGTON by Quincy Jones 30
VICTOR FELDMAN by Bill Crow 31
GILLESPIE-ROLLINS-STITT by Quincy Jones 32
BILLY HOLIDAY by Mimi Clar 33
PHILLY JOE JONES by Ross Russell 33
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS by Yannick Bruynoghe 34
M A X ROACH by Ross Russell 34
DRUMS ON FIRE by Bill Crow 35
GOSPEL SINGERS by Mimi Clar 36

REVIEWS: BOOKS
Langston Hughes' The First Book of Jazz
by Mimi Clar 37

REVIEWS: MOVIES
I Want to Live by Martin Williams 39

JAZZ IN PRINT by Nat Hentoff 40