Now's The Time
All news plus Icebreaker, Benny Green, Mickey Hart

New York
Howard Mandel eats up the Apple

Antonio Hart
Confidential talk with Stuart Nicholson

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Ron Geesin
Tubular tales with Barry Witherden

Great Black Music
Beginning our major forum

Wynton Marsalis
Exclusive conversation with Philip Watson

Motown
We pick our own chartbusters

Black Rock Coalition
Hopey Glass fuses and fractures

Rap Production
David Toop inside the circuitry

Jam & Lewis
Mark Sinker meets the producers

Modern Jazz Quartet
Odds against Stuart Nicholson

Invisible Jukebox
Kenny Mathieson tests Taj Mahal

Louis Armstrong
Pop recollected by R D Cook

The Charts
This month's seething statistics

Print Run
New books worth reading

The Critics' Choice
Our team picks the best of the year

Arthur Bliss
Max Harrison sums up the centenary

Eyewire
We study a new film from BAFC

Mulgrew Miller
Karen Bennett hears the future

Crossword
Chris parker's beloved brainteaser

Soundcheck
Wrappin' up the lsat of this year's reviews

The Write Place
Where readers shake, rattle and roll their own