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Jazz Journal
JJ 02/76: Freddie Hubbard – Polar AC
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found himself chasing a jelly around a bath of soapy water as he pursued the substance of Hubbard's latest
JJ 02/76: Celebrating The Duke And Others
Fifty years ago Burnett James greatly admired the 'genuine perception and independent thought' of musicians' critic Ralph Gleason
JJ 02/76: Jim Hall – Concierto
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan loved a session of master melodists that also marked the return of a more assured and more capable Chet Baker
JJ 02/66: In My Opinion – Bob Thiele
Sixty years ago record producer Bob Thiele held forth on the avant-garde work of yes, Bob James, on Duke Ellington and pop music and on Hines, Hawkins, Mulligan and Barry Harris
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JJ 02/66: The Quartette Très Bien – Stepping Out
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the African-influenced music of US trio Quartette Très Bien had such abandon that he couldn't believe it was all arranged
JJ 02/66: Bobby Wellins – The New Departures Quartet
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner was pleased to find somebody else - Bobby Wellins of the 'stove-pipe' sound - who sounded like they had been listening to Warne Marsh
Simon Spillett Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s
It took a while – six years almost to the day – for Simon Spillett’s Big Band to make it from the humble setting...
52nd International Jazz Piano Festival, Kalisz, Poland
The 52nd International Jazz Piano Festival in Kalisz, Poland (20-23 November 2025) was the first edition prepared by Krzysztof Herdzin, who assumed the role...
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JJ 01/96: Jazz – The Rough Guide
Thirty years ago Alun Morgan was very pleased with the revised edition of Carr, Fairweather and Priestley's not-so-rough guide to jazz
JJ 01/96: Wayne Shorter – High Life
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical mastery of his early 60s Blue Notes
JJ 01/96: Steve Grossman, interviewed by Mark Gilbert
Thirty years ago the NY tenor man, peer to Berg, Brecker, Mintzer et al, talked about his journey through Miles Davis, Elvin Jones and Stone Alliance and back to bebop
JJ 01/86: Joe Henderson – Mode For Joe
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard in Henderson's splitting, jiving and slipping of notes a still contemporary saxophone vocabulary.
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