ON THE COVER

• p 22 : Shakti
  50 Years of Genre-Bending Music !
  By Bill Milkowski
  Shakti celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new album and tour as soulmates John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain still bring it after all these years !

FEATURES

• p 28 : GoGo Penguin
  Reigniting GoGo Penguin
  By Kira Grunenberg
  The gentlemen of U.K. trio GoGo Penguin offer Everything Is Going to Be OK (XXIM Records), the trio’s sixth full-length record reflecting cavalcade of changes that pianist Chris Illingworth and bassist Nick Blacka have endured. Blacka’s mother and brother both passed of cancer within months of one another, and Illingworth’s grandmother, too. The quiet directness of statement-turned-title suddenly takes on immense emotional weight.
• p 34 : Jacques Schwarz-Bart
  Harlem Freedom Suite
  By John Murph
  Five years ago, Jacques Schwarz-Bart moved away from Harlem, where he had come into his own as a tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader. On his absorbing new album, The Harlem Suite (Ropeadope), he tips his hat to that iconic Upper Manhattan neighborhood that has been an incubator for Black culture for more than a century.

SPECIAL SECTION :

• p 53 : The NAMM Show Report

SPECIAL SECTION :
GUITAR & BASS SCHOOL

• p 60 : Master Class : The ’Grundgestalt’ Concept : Repeating & Transforming a Melodic Fragment Into a Complete, Organic Original Composition
  By James Brown
• p 62 : Transcription : Jamaladeen Tacuma’s Electric Bass Solo on ’Bass In Ya Face’
  By Jimi Durso

DEPARTMENTS

• p 8 : First Take
• p 10 : Chords & Discords
• p 13 : The Beat
• p 13 : Arturo O’Farrill, by Suzanne Lorge
• p 15 : Dan Tepfer, by Gary Fukushima
• p 16 : Benny Green, by Ted Panken
• p 18 : Shiri Zorn, by Allen Morrison
• p 19 : Hamptons Jazz Festival by Dan Ouellette
• p 20 : Final Bar, by DownBeat Staff
• p 21 : jazzahead !, by Paul de Barros
• p 39 : Reviews
• p 41 : HOT BOX
  – Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer/Zakir Hussain
  – Christine Jensen
  – Henry Threadgill
  – Meshell Ndegeocello
• p 44 : BLUES
  – Fenton Robinson
  – Muddy Waters
  – Leonard “Lowdown” Brown
  – Bruce Katz Band
  – Tracy Nelson
• p 46 : HISTORICAL
  – Miles Davis
  – Les DeMerle
  – Dexter Gordon
  – Michel Petrucciani
• p 65 : Jazz On Campus
  – Interlochen Jazz Studies
• p 66 : Classic Blindfold Test : Wes Montgomery, by Leonard Feather
  Editor’s Note : We started this issue talking about Indianapolis. Let’s finish it with this classic Blindfold Test featuring that city’s favorite son, the wondrous guitarist Wes Montgomery — who proved to be a tough grader in the June 29, 1967, edition of DownBeat.
  – George Benson : “Benny’s Back” from The George Benson Cookbook (Columbia)
  – Roland Kirk : “Making Love After-hours” from Here Comes The Whistleman (Atlantic)
  – Joe Pass : “Sometime Ago” from Simplicity (World Pacific)
  – Grant Green : “Brazil” from The Latin Bit (Blue Note)
  – Stanley Turrentine : “A Taste Of Honey” from Jay Ride (Blue Note)
  – Gabor Szabo : “Walk On By” from Gypsy ’66 (Impulse)
  – Howard Roberts : “Cute” from Something’s Cookin’ (Capitol)