JazzTimes Magazine September 2019 Edizione posteriore

ABDULLAH IBRAHIM
This year the National Endowment for the Arts recognized what many music fans have known for decades: that pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim born Adolph Brand in Cape Town, South Africa 84 years ago is a Jazz Master. While in Washington, D.C. to receive the NEA’s honor, he kindly granted an audience to JT’s Michael J. West.

JOHNNY HODGES AND BENNY CARTER
They were the leading alto saxophonists of their era, great stylists whom modern players continue to study. But what did they think of each other? In an excerpt from his new Hodges biography Rabbit’s Blues, Con Chapman finds both respect and friction under the surface.