Sample articles from the Winter 2008 issue

The poet returns
HENRY GRIMES was at the top of his game playing on the 1950s and 60s New York jazz circuit when he vanished from the music scene. Over three decades later – and having survived his own reported death – he is making his dramatic comeback. He tells CHRIS PARKER the story                                                                           

Forward thinker
The bass lines in MAHLER’s symphonies reveal how deeply the composer understood the instrument’s unique qualities and timbral potential, says PHILIP CLARK

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