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OFC JJ May 2012

MAY 2012

Kenny Garrett The former Ellington and Miles altoist, on encountering Joe Harriott unseen, confirms the received wisdom: "Collective improvisation, reminds me of Ornette Coleman."
Profiles Dynamo bassman Jasper Høiby; banker turned singer René Marie; unsung yet impeccably well-connected arranger John Warren
Geoffrey Smith On the eve of a two-year sabbatical, the BBC presenter reflects on 20 years chairing Jazz Record Requests
Microsopic Monk Lowdown on the hatted one from his former music therapist Joel Forrester of the Microscopic Septet
On The Other Hand Dave Gelly regrets Strasbourg's 70-year copyright rule and the end of Jazz Library
Piano jazz Richard Palmer argues that the standard model of jazz piano history needs radical revision. Part 3: Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington
Anec-dotage
Alun Luff takes the rap for Tord Gustavsen but finds relief in another Teuton, Franz Schubert
In Books & DVDs Pat Martino; Brad Mehldau; Baroness Nica; Marian McPartland; Gerry Mulligan; Zoot Sims
Record reviews In full, in brief, in summary: over 110 discs covered in total  

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Jazz Journal Index 2011

What happened in jazz in 2011? Find that review or article as published in Jazz Journal 2011 via the handsomely appointed Jazz Journal Index 2011: details of 798 CD reviews, 27 DVD reviews and 39 book reviews


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The Jazz Digest, May 2012

Choice snips from JJ May: Kenny Garrett smelling his way into jazz, Joel Forrester playing therapist to Monk, Alan Luff digging proto-jazzman Franz Schubert, Geoffrey Smith on how JRR became GS's Jazz . . . and Jasper Høiby, seeing the light in the dark


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Ystad: From one Kurt to another

Mark Gilbert previews the 2012 Ystad jazz festival, another good reason - after Wallander - for southern Sweden to be on the UK's cultural radar


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New Orleans comes to Ascona

Mark Gilbert previews the Swiss festival that brings the flavour of New Orleans and points beyond to Lake Maggiore


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Review: Jersey Jazz Festival

Bob Weir reports from the revived Jersey Jazz Festival, scene of many a mainstream triumph in past decades. This year's mix ranged from Dennis Rollins's high-energy jazz and funk to Simon Spillett's urbane bop and standards


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Geoffrey Smith leaves Jazz Record Requests

Geoffrey Smith, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests, is to leave the programme following a decision to refresh one of the BBC's oldest jazz features


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Review: Gateshead IJF

’The first major UK festival in the calendar, the Gateshead International Jazz Festival becomes more of a bonsai London International Jazz Festival with each passing year,’ writes Fred Grand


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Review: Yuriy Galkin Nonet, Croydon

The Russian bassist offers ’a refreshing antidote to the harmonically bereft punk-prog-indie inspired fare that unreasonably excites so many in the jazz (and, unsurprisingly, non-jazz) media’ writes Mark Gilbert


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Review: Marcus Roberts, Gateshead

“Roberts is too elegant and maybe too classically-trained to go for filth, but a majestic bluesiness, with physicality and movement in the attack, permeated his Coltrane playing,” says Andy Hamilton


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Review: Tord Gustavsen, London

John Adcock finds the Norwegian pianist bringing new meaning to the idea of jazz trading on a Sunday: no JATP-style sparring contests here but reverential silence between occasional solos in an evening of hushed spirituality


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Review: Don Weller at Lowestoft

Garry Booth salutes the bruised but unbowed sound of no-nonsense tenor saxophone campaigner Don Weller on a rainswept night in Lowestoft


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Review: Portico Quartet, Norwich

Garry Booth finds that the wayward, groove-based improvisers of the first two albums have retreated into monophonic anaesthesia


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Jim Mullen for Croydon Record Fair

The spring 2012 edition of the Croydon Record Fair, Sunday 29 April, features jazz on 78, LP, CD (maybe, even, on wax cylinder) and live from the Dave Green trio with Jim Mullen


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Spring jazz festivals, home and away

As the days lengthen we preview some of the leading jazz festivals in the 2012 spring season - in the UK, France and a point in between


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Mintzer, Erskine, Brecker for Scotland

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra led by Tommy Smith teams up with Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine and Randy Brecker in dates saluting Weather Report and Michael Brecker


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Jazz Journal Critics' Poll 2011

Thirty leading critics choose 20 favourites from the 798 records reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2011. Among the top 10, Jan Lundgren, Bobby Wellins, Tommy Smith, Kurt Elling


 

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