WIRE MAGAZINE
ANTHONY WOOD
Founder A MEMBER OF THE NAMARA GROUP WORLD HEADQUARTERS:
Units G & H 115 Cleveland Street London W1P 5PN, England
Telephone 01-580 7522
t RICHARDCOOK
Editor CYNTHIA ROSE Deputy Editor PHILIP WATSON Advertising & Promotion
PAUL ELLMAN
Design CAROLINE ROUX, LORRAINE BOWEN Subscriptions & Administration
ROY PATTISON Promotion Consultant
JAN DIAKOW
Accounts CHRIS PARKER
Publisher
#
TYPESETTING M.C. Typeset Limited, Chatham
PRINTING Garnett Press, Rotherham WIRE is distributed in the UK by NS Distribution, 102 Curtain Road,
London ECZA 3AA. CONTRIBUTORS Mike Atherton Nick Coleman
Tim Colwell John Fordham
Jack Cooke Andy Hamilton Mike Fish Tony Herrington David Ilic Nick Kimberley Biba Kopf Steve Lake Steve Lewis Graham Lock Kenny Mathieson Brian Morton Stuart Nicholson Brian Priestley
Mark Sinker Ben Watson Sue Steward Barry Witherden Val Wilmer Mike Zwerin
U.S.A. Diane Patrick John Litweiler Howard Mandel
#
The vtews expressed m WIRE are those of the respectrve contributorrand are not neressar~ly shared by the magaune or m drst~ngurshedstaff WIRE assumesno respons~bllrtyfor undlc~ted manurcnprr, phorognphsand tllwtrar~onsSend at your own risk. Copyr~ghthere and abroad 1s held by the publ~sheror by freelance contributors Unauthor~sedreproductronof any
Item IS strrctly out of order " I can daftnrtdy ray t h d rnusrc ucn't stop, It w~Ncontrnusto go fm l a r d . " CHARLIE
PARKER, 1953.
W I R E M A G A Z I N E O c t o b e r 1 9 8 7 I s sue 4 4
4 AN EDITOR'S IDEA
8 NOW'S THE TIME All the NJM news 18 HORNWEH Ben Watson hears horns in Shertteld 23 LIVEWIRE Mike Mantler, Fred Frith and more 26 DIZZY GILLESPIE A history on record by Richard Cook 30 EARTHWORKS Mark Sinker ploughs t h ~ o u g hit 33 THE IMMACULATE ONE HUNDRED Our greatest charts 39 ZWERIN Michael Zwerin at large 40 ANNIE GRIFFIN Cynthia Rose charts a performance 44 ARGUELLES Steve and Julian under scrutiny
48 JAMES CARR Barney Hoskyns and a lump in the throat 5 l SOUNDCHECK Sheppard'sdelight, and manv others 65 BOOKS A flash of the spirit 66 THE WRITE PLACE Readers coo1 i t
W I R E U A Q A Z I N E 3
