Contents

Editor’s note | Contributors and Editors

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In Conversation (Interviews)
Shannon Barnett with Adrian Jackson | Sandy Evans with Michael Webb | Aaron Flower with Peter Wockner | Paul Grabowsky with Miriam Zolin | Jim McLeod with Miriam Zolin | Marios

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Verbatim
Tony Gorman On becoming an improvising musician | John Clare Rock and Roll Diary of a Jazz Fan

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Fiction (winners of the 2008 National Jazz Writing Competition!)
Peter Newall I Thought About You | Matthew Asprey Gut Bucket Blues | Spike Mason Taking the A Train

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Poetry

Andrew McDonald Music in the Foyer, Belvoir | PS Cottier Silver-eyes and figs | Allan Browne adrian | Goeff Page Coffee with Miles | Tony Gorman Used to couldn’t | Geoff Page Jazz /Poet | Allan Browne little miles | Allan Browne for curly (ade monsborough) | Lynn Hard Jazz | Lynn Hard Quintet

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Essays
John Shand Musical Surrealism | Peter Jordan Horror Movie, it’s the 6:30 News | Sascha Feinstein Kenneth Rexroth: Back in the Cellar again

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Visuals
Sketch by Bruce Petty | Prints by John Ryrie | Photographs by Natasha Blankfield | Photographs by Mark Peterson

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Book Reviews
John Clare reviews Ask Me Now ed Sascha Feinstein | Andrew W. Hurley reviews Jazz: An Australian Accent by John Shand | Adrian Jackson reviews Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz ed Anni Heino

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Reprints
Jim McLeod talks to Paul Grabowsky (1994) | Andrew Ford talks to Tony Gorman (2004)

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Bonus CD
Courtesy of Kimnara Records | Kimnara:Tapping into a rich vein by Gerry Koster
Q and A with Kimnara’s Simon Barker