JazzTimes Magazine May 2022 Back Issue

THE CELLO IN JAZZ
Even though it’s still considered primarily a classical instrument, the cello has been lurking in jazz’s back corners for more than a century. Today, a small but growing group of musicians are giving it a more central role in the music. Geoffrey Himes unearths the instrument’s jazz history and consults with modern practitioners Abdul Wadud, Erik Friedlander, Akua Dixon, and Hank Roberts.

JAZZ DOCS
For the past decade or so, we’ve been living in a golden age of jazz documentaries, from Chasing Trane and I Called Him Morgan to It Must Schwing! and Ronnie’s—plus many, many more. In some ways it’s easier to make films like these nowadays, but in other ways it can be more of a struggle than ever. Lee Mergner talks to several distinguished documentarians about the state of their art.