I would be prepared to wager that none of these critics of jazz possesses a single disc of it, and their ignorance on the subject makes...

The real Jazz is neither cheap, shallow nor flashy. The Jazz as played by true Jazz musicians has a living, profound quality. It is the...

Another argument Mr. R. H. Young used, was that jazz has a lack of substance. It would take too much space to explain what jazz music...

It would seem that our Jazz enthusiasts remain strangely dumb in your correspondence columns, for J can find only six letters which touch...

Jazz has, too, a definite contribution to make in the musical world, and is, although few admit it, a form of music that musicians can...

May I say how pleased I am to see that you have re-introduced jazz reviews. It was nearly 60 years ago that I first read the magazine,...

First of all I didn't " accuse" you of anything. I " suggested " that you received letters on jazz but didn't print them, as an...

It has.,always appeared to me that these two very extreme groups have very much in common, each one depending upon the individual skill...

I refer to your review of "Jazz In Britain -• -The 20s" which evoked in me no little nostalgia, but (as with so many British reissues)...

Those readers of the jazz pages of THE GRAMOPHONE for forty years mentioned by Roger Wimbush in your March issue (how many of them...

It could reasonably be argued that the greatest of Sinatra's achievements was the dignifying and preservation of a minor, but none the...

In Capetown we had a jazz Citib, but it lost its members who were really interested in jasz by having crooning contests.

Mr. Robert Mackenzie (June) evidently didn't read very carefully the six letters on jazz which he did succeed in finding. Had he done so...

I recently purchased a new BBC disc of old jazz recordings remastered in digital, and the results are absolutely amazing; even the...

I couldn't agree more with Adrian Clark in May (Letters, page 24). I started reading Gramophone in 1964, aged 17, because it reviewed all...

Is it too much to hope that some enterprising recording company will persuade Miss Cleo Laine and the augmented London Sinfonietta to...

As a follower of the Edgar Jackson-Oliver King type of music, might I be allowed through the pages of THE GRAMOPHONE to confess my...

DEAR Six,—There can seldom have been a more brilliant criticism of a rhythmic piano record than that published in the March issue of...

The review of a record entitled "The Eastern Scene" in the Jazz and Swing section of your September issue displays some considerable...

Samba With Some Barbecue (Paul Desmond): Fly Me To The Moon (Wes Montgomery): Lonely Gin (Pete Jolly): St. M (Nat Adderley): The Letter...