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Jazz Journal
JJ 03/96: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert plumbed the familial and musical origins of one of the leading individualists of the modern period
JJ 03/96: Paula Gardiner – Tales Of Inclination
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed a debut that wrought familiar material - including reminders of ECM, Metheny, Debussy and Grieg - into something fresh and individual
JJ 03/96: Jack Bruce – Monkjack
Thirty years ago, Simon Adams listened to a 'a set of atmospheric, occasionally portentous songs that promise much and sometimes deliver it'
JJ 03/86: Tito Puente And His Latin Ensemble – Mambo Diablo
Hace 40 años, Simon Adams estaba de acuerdo en que el diablo tiene todas las mejores melodías y felicitó a Puente por haber convertido Take Five en una canción agradable
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JJ 03/86: Chick Corea – Septet
Forty years ago, Richard Palmer enjoyed Corea's lyrical sub-classical writing while finding it derivative and well removed from jazz
JJ 03/86: Herbie Hancock – Speak Like A Child
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert thought Hancock's latest - conjuring an atmosphere of peace and liberation, if not naiveté - measured up well to its title
Pablo Held Trio & Chris Potter at the Blue Note, Poznań
The concert by the Pablo Held Trio featuring Chris Potter at Poznań’s Blue Note – housed in the former boiler room of the Imperial...
JJ 03/76: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – Eleven Plus Live At LWT
Fifty years ago, Alun Morgan marvelled at the power, accuracy and solo power (take a bow, Phil Todd) of an 'astonishingly good' big band then in receipt of no public funding
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JJ 03/76: Dick Wellstood at the Seven Dials
Fifty years ago Miles Kington hailed a proponent of a piano style that 'probably led to the finest flowering of solo improvising since Beethoven'
JJ 03/76: Amalgam – Innovation
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae enjoyed John Stevens playing around the beat and Trevor Watts ranging from blistering scalar flurries to gentle thematic variations
JJ 03/66: Ravi Shankar – Portrait Of A Genius
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner acknowledged the raga's stylistic connection with jazz but concurred with Gerald Lascelles that its monotony was hard to overcome
JJ 03/66: Roland Kirk – Rip, Rig And Panic
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce liked the vitality and creativity of Kirk's straightforward numbers but not the tape and computer gimmickry used elsewhere
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