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Jazz Journal
In South Wales? Take the Coaltrains
It's not St Pancras International. It doesn’t have the dramatic Victorian architecture of Liverpool Lime Street, the hustle and bustle of Birmingham New Street,...
Julia Yagunova: from Shanghai’s JZ Club to London
Russian-born pianist Julia Yagunova has built an international career that reflects the global spirit of today’s jazz. From her studies in the United States...
JJ 09/95: Don Grolnick, interviewed
Thirty years ago pianist Grolnick, famed as the composer of Pools, spoke to Mark Gilbert, touching on Bill Evans, pretension, earthy jazz, Barry Rogers and more
JJ 09/95: Joe Zawinul – The Beginning & Zawinul
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert was intrigued by the unforeseeble transformations in the music of the Viennese master between 1959 and 1971
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JJ 09/95: Estoril-Cascais jazz festival, reviewed
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert reported on the 14th Estoril-Cascais jazz festival in Portugal, which included Nat Adderley, George Shearing and Ray Brown
JJ 09/95: Norma Winstone – Well Kept Secret
Thirty years ago Bruce Crowther said that every encounter with singer Norma Winstone seemed like a first time, such was her capacity for reinvention
JJ 09/95: North Sea Jazz Festival, reviewed
Thirty years ago Stan Woolley and Willem Hoos gave insights into the Hague's jazz festival, still catching the tail-end of modern mainstream, with performers including Oscar Peterson, Johnny Griffin and Joe Henderson
JJ 09/85: Working Week – Working Nights
Forty years ago Simon Adams hailed one of the more substantial spinoffs from the much vaunted but elusive 1980s British jazz revival
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JJ 09/85: Charles Lloyd Quartet – A Night In Copenhagen
Forty years ago Michael Tucker found saxophonist Lloyd still in the hippie 1960s groove but pointed out the level and breadth of much of his work
JJ 09/85: Bill Frisell – Rambler
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert said that although Frisell's playing could sound elemental and closer to Wout Steenhuis's Hawaiian musings than jazz, it would be a mistake to dismiss it
JJ 09/85: Miles – time after time
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert considered Miles Davis, musician and leader, and offered a perspective on his latest work, from Man With The Horn (1981) to You're Under Arrest (1985)
JJ 09/85: The Bass Clef, first anniversary
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert gave an update on Peter Ind's new jazz club in the incipiently hip East London, its attractions including Ronnie Ross, Harry Beckett and Gordon Beck
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