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Eberhard Weber
Bassman lowers the boom on Mike Fish

Francis Davis
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Livewire
From Victoriaville to Huddersfield

Django Reinhardt
Martin Gayford remembers the first Euro-master

Pierre Boulez
'ow does 'e do eet, asks Ben Watson

An Editor's Idea
The Jazz Awards & Europe

In A Latin Year
Sue Steward reviews the grooves

Europe
Is this the new world? R D Cook ponders

FMP
A great European label by Steve Lake

Where It Happens
The Festivals

New York
Uptown, downtown, Howard Mandel

Hardwire
New techno with Tom Corbin

The Charts
This month's league tables

Soundcheck
What's new on disc

The Write Place
Where readers take the mike