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Jazz Journal
New releases October-November 2025, S
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Brandon Sanders, John Scofield, Mark Sherman and Martial Solal & Eric Le Lann // Editor's pick: Brandon Sanders
New releases October-November 2025, O-R
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Keith Oxman, Nigel Price, Doug Raney, Emma Rawicz and Redtenbacher's Funkestra // Editor's pick: Keith Oxman
JJ 11/85: Peter King – 90% Of One Per Cent
Forty years ago, Richard Palmer thought his American cousins ought to be feeling a bit nervous in the face of 'just about the best alto player in the world'
JJ 11/85: Keith Jarrett Standards, Vol 2
Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought that although Jarrett's return to standards might suggest a retreat there was no diminution in his pianistic powers
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JJ 11/85: Fred Hersch Trio: Horizons
Forty years ago, John Postgate thought Horizons, plagued by 'self-indulgent maunderings', would have been quite a jazz record if it had been half the length
JJ 11/75: Warne Marsh – Jazz From The East Village
Fifty years ago, Mark Gardner thanked Peter Ind for capturing 'the astonishing, agile extemporisations' of Warne Marsh at a time when soul-jazz dominated
JJ 11/75: Alice Coltrane – Lord Of Lords
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae admired Coltrane's elegant writing but found no jazz in music with a dated style and fussy, romantic piano and harp work
JJ 11/75: George Duke – The Aura Will Prevail
Fifty years ago, Roger Dean approved of the tonal variety and of the Frank Zappa cover in Duke's 'crude pop' record but didn't hear enough improvisation
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New releases October-November 2025, L-N
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Yusef Lateef, Gareth Lockrane, Ashley Maher, Russ Macklem and Christian McBride // Editor's pick: Gareth Lockrane
JJ 11/65: Aretha Franklin – Yeah!!!
Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill acclaimed Franklin's big, strong, gospel-driven voice and sensed the advent of another major jazz singer
JJ 11/65: Roland Kirk – I Talk With The Spirits
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, recovering from his Ayler baptism, enjoyed hearing Kirk playing, singing, laughing and shouting through some 'most acceptable modern jazz'
JJ 11/65: Bill Le Sage & The Directions In Jazz Unit – The Road To Ellingtonia
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner thought Bill Le Sage's Directions In Jazz would come to be seen as 'the most invigorating and successful mating of a string section with jazz soloists'
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