With contributions by Bill Leak, Mandy Sayer, Andrew Lindsay, Ken Bolton, П O and more, extempore Issue 2 will surprise and delight.
We also interview Mike Nock, Judy Bailey, Scott Tinkler and Art Pepper and have included photos by Jane March, Gerard Anderson and Mark Peterson; illustrations by Leith O’Malley; fiction by Elisabeth Rose; poetry by Goeff Page, Rai Thistlethwayte, Pam Brown, PS Cottier; essays by Sascha Feinstein, Andrew Hurley and Melissa Bellanta and pieces by John Clare and Keith Hounslow. Plus a bonus CD of great Australian jazz from the Birdland label. A feast for the eyes and ears.
“…intelligent, collaborative and inclusive…”
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Contents
One of the comments I received about Issue 1 of extempore has stuck with me. To paraphrase, this reader said she’d expected stories of the good old days of jazz in Australia and instead found she came away with a feeling of excitement about the future of the music. She tapped right into a central dilemma for a journal such as this: ‘What is extempore?’ read more…
IN CONVERSATION
Scott Tinkler with Adrian Jackson
Judy Bailey with Belinda Webster
Mike Nock with Miriam Zolin
VERBATIM
John Clare Words, Music, Madness
Peter Rechniewski Discovering El Rocco
Andrew Lindsay Music Slut From Hell
Keith Hounslow On Contemporary Improvised Music
Paul Pax Andrews Joe Lane Stories
Adrian Jackson Blame Maynard
ESSAYS
Andrew W Hurley “Tell you vot, baby: ze band voss svingkink und groovink” Horst Liepolt and the Australian jazz boom of the 1970s
Sascha Feinstein William Matthews and Chares Mingus: Poems of Desire and Need
Melissa Bellanta White Australia and Sonny Clay’s Colored Idea: The Story of an Ill-Fated Tour
FICTION
Mandy Sayer from her novel Love in the Years of Lunacy
Elisabeth Rose Come Fly With Me
VISUALS
Jane March
Gerard Anderson
Leith O’Malley
POETRY
PS Cottier A sound bigger than Belgium
Jennifer Eadie Mary
John Bennett Politics and All That Jazz
Pam Brown From a Daihatsu
Geoff Page The Documentation
Ashley Capes bulb, take five
Andre McDonald Charles Mingus knew my momma
Π O 1928 Jazz in Melbourne
Ken Bolton Boundless (Sascha)
Rai Thistlethwayte ID Takeover
REPRINTS
David N Pepperell talks to Art Pepper (1981)
Jim McLeod talks to Mike Nock (1992)
REVIEWS
Film: Bill Leak reviews Intangible Asset Number 82
Music: John Clare remembers Keith Shadwick
BONUS CD
Courtesy of Birdland Records
Birdland: where Oz Jazz takes wing by John Shand
Q&A with Birdland’s Kieran Stafford
