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JJ 07/64: Sheila Jordan – Portrait Of Sheila

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Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Jordan's vocals as a spectacular relief from Blue Note's bloody-minded tenorists and noisy organ-players

Kenny Garrett & SVOY: Who Killed AI?

Peter Gamble -

Saxophonist Garrett plays with typical flair over electronic backgrounds, including a updated view of Miles Davis's voodoo rundown

Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek: Luminessence

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Reissue on high-grade vinyl of the 1974 set in which saxophonist Jan Garbarek plays over string pieces written by Keith Jarrett

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Ronnie Scott’s

Mark Gilbert -

The young Americans brought an even younger band to London, featuring Munir Hossn, Grégoire Maret, Wesley Ritenour and Tatiana Parra

JJ 07/64: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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Sixty years ago, after seeing the Brubeck quartet live in England, someone, perhaps Sinclair Traill, reckoned his group didn't play jazz

Brenda Earle Stokes: Motherhood

Matty Bannond -

Canadian singer and pianist flirts with kitsch but stays firm in a wistful set of Latin and light-rock originals featuring Ingrid Jensen

Audio reviews

Kenny Garrett & SVOY: Who Killed AI?

Saxophonist Garrett plays with typical flair over electronic backgrounds, including a updated view of Miles Davis's voodoo rundown

Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek: Luminessence

Brenda Earle Stokes: Motherhood

Anita O’Day: Sings For Oscar

Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin: Brasil

Stan Getz: Jazz Samba plus Jazz Samba Encore!

Sidney Bechet: Plays Sidney Bechet

Karrin Allyson: A Kiss For Brazil

The Other Way: Learning to Be

Red Garland Trio: Groovy

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance

AVA Trio: The Great Green

Antonio Farao: Tributes

Alison Burns & Martin Taylor: Songs For Nature

Jack Walrath: Live At Smalls

Eleonora Claps: 10PM

John Crawford: Room For Dancing

Monika Ryan: Alive

Christian Holm-Svendsen: Totem

Book reviews

Spirit Of The Century

The fraught, sometimes contradictory journey of the famous gospel group is laid out with evocative testimony and photos

Talking The Groove – Jazz Words From The Morning Star

A Trumpet Around The Corner – The Story of New Orleans Jazz

The Jazzmen

At The Vanguard Of Vinyl

The Blues Brothers

Knowing Jazz / Learning Jazz

Chasing The Masters – First Takes Of A Modern Drumming Artist

Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs & Hidden Histories

The Many Worlds Of David Amram

Cedar – The Life And Music Of Cedar Walton

Bitter Crop: The Heartache And Triumph Of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

Free Play: Improvisation In Life & Art

3 Shades Of Blue: Miles, Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans And The Lost Empire Of Cool

Early Jazz – A Concise Introduction, From Its Beginnings Through 1929

Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums

Jazz With A Beat – Small Group Swing, 1940–1960

Dreams In Double Time

Magic City: How The Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped The Sound Of America

Jennie Cashman Wilson: Becoming Brave

Film reviews

The Humbler – Danny Gatton

Comprehensive chronicle adds new footage of 'the greatest guitarist you never heard', one perhaps isolated by his eclecticism and virtuosity

Sloane: A Jazz Singer

City Of A Million Dreams

Oscar Peterson: Black + White

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Dale Bruning: A Tribute To Jim Hall

In Cold Blood

A Man Called Adam

Jazz On A Summer’s Day

Buster Williams: Bass To Infinity

Billy Bang: Lucky Man

Wilderness

Up From The Streets – New Orleans: The City Of Music

Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool – the DVD

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Small-screen swing

Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott and His World-Famous Jazz Club

Billie

Ronnie’s – the life of Ronnie Scott and his world famous jazz club

Count Basie – Through His Own Eyes

Live Reviews

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Ronnie Scott’s

The young Americans brought an even younger band to London, featuring Munir Hossn, Grégoire Maret, Wesley Ritenour and Tatiana Parra

Jazz in the Park competition, Romania

North Sea Round Town

John Surman Quartet at Ronnie Scott’s

Enter Enea Festival 2024, Poland

Bill Evans and the VansBand Allstars at Ronnie Scott’s – and in Poland

NoSax NoClar, Watermill Jazz Club

Clark Tracey Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club

Boreal Sun, Ronnie Scott’s, London

The Jazz Defenders at Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny

Marco Marzola Trio at Spike’s Place, Beckenham

Mike Stern Band at Ronnie Scott’s, London

A Couple Of Swells: Liza Pulman & Joe Stilgoe at Cadogan Hall, London

Shirley Smart Trio at the Watermill, Dorking

Jazzkaar Festival, Tallinn

News in brief

Ronnie Scott’s JO to swing bank-holiday Battersea

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Battersea Park in Concert returns for a second year with jazz from Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra, Claire Martin, Ray Gelato and more

David Sanborn dies

Michael Cuscuna dies

Keith Emerson reimagined for strings and more

Gypsy Jazz Festival of London, 6-13 May

German jazz trade-fair strikes a political note

The great wine world of Quincy Jones

Cadillac’s Joy reissue gets Presto award

Stan Sulzmann’s 75th birthday gig at Watermill Jazz

Steve Voce, 1933-2023

Val Wilmer looks back on jazz

Lottery awards £247,494 to research black music shops

The Dick Patterson Trio – a real-life jazz mystery

Columns

Obituary: Palle Danielsson

The Swedish bassist played with a host of leading local and international musicians, ranging in style from standards to ECM-type modalism

Obituary: Bill Holman

Count Me In… 05/24

Obituary: Michael Cuscuna

Obituary: Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath

Obituary: Georg Riedel

Obituary: Brian Godding

Obituary: Bruce Crowther

Count Me In… 10/23

Obituary: Julian Bahula

Obituary: John Marshall

Obituary: Tony Bennett

Count me in… 05/23

Obituary: Ahmad Jamal

Obituary: Jerry Dodgion

Obituary: Wally Fawkes

Obituary: Alan Bates

Features

Ricardo Pinheiro: making jazz happen

The Portuguese guitarist is an exemplar of globalised jazz, hustling up, out of Lisbon, work with a string of international names

Blossom Dearie: slight of sound, full of expression

Henry Mancini, a jazz pioneer in Hollywood

Zev Feldman: digging out the lost gems

Lizz Wright: looking back

Bob Florence Limited Edition: a big-band blast

100 years ago: Sarah Vaughan

Jim Beard: delight in the detail

The rapturous reed: saxophone in the cinema

My friend, Steve Voce

Terry Gibbs: bebop is my business /2

Dave Quincy, English jazz-rock pioneer

Terry Gibbs: bebop is my business /1

Emma Rawicz: in the middle of somewhere

Bill Crow: journeyman bassist and master storyteller /2

Alex Hitchcock: making connections

Bill Crow: journeyman bassist and master storyteller

From the JJ archive

JJ 07/64: Sheila Jordan – Portrait Of Sheila

Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Jordan's vocals as a spectacular relief from Blue Note's bloody-minded tenorists and noisy organ-players

JJ 07/64: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

JJ 07/64: Jimmy Witherspoon at Ronnie Scott’s

JJ 07/64: Cannonball Adderley at Birmingham Town Hall

JJ 07/64: John Lee Hooker at The Flamingo

JJ 06/94: Hard Bop: Jazz And Black Music 1955-1965

JJ 06/94: Jim Hall – Something Special

JJ 06/84: Woody Shaw – Night Music

JJ 06/84: Dudu Pukwana – Life In Bracknell & Willisau

JJ 06/74: Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

JJ 06/74: Eberhard Weber – The Colours Of Chloe

JJ 06/74: Mose Allison and John Williams at Ronnie Scott’s

JJ 06/64: Gary Burton, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry – Three In Jazz

JJ 06/64: In My Opinion – Paul Gonsalves

JJ 06/64: Ernest Ranglin – Wranglin’