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SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY FEATURE:
CODA UNDERSTOOD  

IN THE FIRST. John Norris as told to Andrew Scott
THE EARLY DAYS WITH CODA — A MEMOIR. By Dick Lazenby
INTRODUCTION TO AN ENCORE (TORONTO 1963-1966). By Bill Smith
BUT WHAT OF CODA? By David Lee
BEYOND 300. By Nick Pitt
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF JAZZ...WITH SCAZZ. By Monte Scott & K.S. Enrab

SPECIAL INSERT:
CODA's QUINTESSENTIAL CANADIAN JAZZ FESTIVAL GUIDE 

The 4th Edition of CODA's popular jazz festival guide is available as a special insert in the 50th Anniversary edition and it can also be viewed online.

FEATURES
 

BYRON STRIPLING: LIVING IN THE FIELD OF INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
by Peter Vacher

It is easy to be envious of the population of Columbus,Ohio, as their local jazz orchestra is led by none other than the talented trumpeter, singer, actor and jazz advocate Byron Stripling. An alumnus of bands led by Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry and Carla Bley, Stripling, in conversation with one of CODA’s longest contributors, Peter Vacher, is captured here in his own voice waxing poetic about a career that continues to amaze.

THE DAVE McMURDO ORCHESTRA AT 20!
by Geoff Chapman

Leading a big band is no easy feat in today’s financial climate.Yet, as Geoff Chapman tells us in this fascinating portrait of the bandleader/ trombonist, Dave McMurdo has made it happen for the last twenty years..

REPEATED MEETINGS WITH A REMARKABLE MUSICIAN: CAMERA BEARING ENCOUNTERS WITH KENNY WHEELER
by Patrick Hinely

Combining text, photography and a proposed alternative to what the author suggests is an oft-abused adjective used to describe the music of trumpeter KennyWheeler, Patrick Hinely’s pictorial of one of Canada’s most globally influential jazz musicians captures many stages in the life of an artist in transition.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSINGS

Keyboardist Jamie Shields explores the Fender Rhodes electric piano in the inaugural offering of this new column

LABEL SPOTLIGHT

Justin Time founder Jim West reflects on the label's 25th Anniversary with David Ryshpan

CKLN AT 25

Tien Providence explains the history and the significance of Toronto's CKLN 88.1 FM

HAPPENINGS
 

OPENING NOTES

Marion McPartland at ninety
The newly created Dennis Irwin Memorial Fund
Five things I know about Jeff (Jeff Healey 1966 - 2008)

COAST TO COAST

THE BIG EASTY - Spaces Between by Sarah Watling
QUEBECKONINGS by Len Dobbin
JAZZ ON THE PRAIRIES - A Star in the West by Steve Kirby
WAY OUT WEST by Steve Vickery

HEARD AND SEEN

Ingrid Jenson at Baylor University
Time Flies/20th Annual Improvised Music Festival at The Ironworks
Atomic at Western Front
Trio Leandre/Derome/Roger at La Salle Rosa
Quartetski does Prokofiev at Casa del Popolo

JAZZSCAPE

NEW YORK IS NOW by Kurt Gottschalk

VIEWPOINTS
 

ON THE RECORD

Jeff Healey remembered by friend and Jazz Wizards bandmate, Colin Bray.

SWINGING CELLULOID by Michael Borshuk

Jazz is Weird Again: DOA (1950), Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

TAKE TWO:REISSUES by Duck Baker

Horace Silver's Live at Newport '58
The Magnificent Thad Jones
Stan Kenton's Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton and more

REVIEWS
 

JAZZBOUND

Anthony Barnett’s Listening for Henry Crowder: A Monograph on His Almost Lost Music

RECENT CDs

Altsys Jazz Orchestra, Lorraine Feather, Adi Braun, Joel Miller, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Mary Lou Williams, and more.

FEATURE REVIEWS

Gilad Atzmon: Fishel and The Promised Band, Refuge. Reviewed by Patrick Hinely
Canucks on Disc by Geoff Chapman
Dig Ben reviewed by John Norris