Taft Jordan is cover boy in the new issue. Bo Haufman has written the four page article. It covers of course Jordan’s period with Chick Webb and Duke but the most interesting part of the article is when Haufman writes about his small group recordings with Ellingtonians and recordings under Jordean’s name.
Rasmus Henriksen has contributed an article – apparently in close cooperation with Sven-Erik Baum-Christensen – about Duke Ellington in Scandinavia February 1963. The most interesting part is about the Danish part of the tour and about the meeting between Ellington and Timme Rosencrantz. The other parts have been well covered by the DESS Ellington Galaxy website over the years. One wonders why there are no references to this in the article, no music and very little of press clippings.
Another the articles by Haufman in the new issue is one about Åke Persson and Duke Ellington based on the book Åke Persson 1932-1975. There is also an article about Duke Ellington and mobben that might have been written by Haufman but it has no author.
The reprint is this time an artcle by Mike Zirpolo. It is about Billy Strayhorn’s Johnny Come Lately.