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JJ 12/95: McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Michael Brecker – Infinity
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard Tyner and Brecker come through strongly in a session loaded with historical resonance and expectation
JJ 12/95: Steps Ahead – Vibe / Live In Tokyo 1986
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert compared Steps Ahead stadium rockers and Steps Ahead reinvented fusioneers unplugged
JJ 12/95: Pat Metheny – We Live Here
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert acknowledged the superficial blandness of the guitarist's hip-hop-driven set while noting some excellent solos
JJ 12/95: The Brecker Brothers – Out Of The Loop / Live
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the brothers' exceptional jazz soloing as an abiding factor through the vagaries of shifting style
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JJ 12/85: Dave Holland Quintet – Seeds Of Time
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard the bassist with Steve Coleman, Kenny Wheeler and others in a set that mixed free improv, impressionism and theatricality
JJ 12/85: Stanley Jordan at Shaw Theatre, London
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the two-handed guitar-tapping phenomenon threaten to put rhythm sections out of work
JJ 12/85: Wayne Shorter at Logan Hall, London
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw, in a band playing fusion and a hipster audience expecting bebop, the tension between modernism and the dawn of London jazz retro
JJ 12/85: Forward Motion – The Berklee Tapes
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert marvelled at the virtuosity and expressivity of a group of Berklee students featuring Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith
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12/75: John Abercrombie – Gateway
Fifty years ago Roger Dean liked the rhythmic drive of Gateway but wasn't impressed by Abercombie's arbitrary climaxes and the stolid downbeats on irregular time sigs
12/75: Mike Gibbs – The Only Chrome Waterfall Orchestra
Fifty years ago Steve Voce knew he wouldn't like Gibbs' latest until he'd become acclimatised to its innovations and accepted his own failings
JJ 12/65: In My Opinion – Wild Bill Davison
Sixty years ago the famed cornet player struggled to appreciate Tony Williams and remembered when Bix Beiderbecke's pivot tooth fell out and obliged him to switch to piano
JJ 12/65: Stan Tracey Quartet – Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood
Sixty years ago Michael Shera admired Under Milk Wood for its writing, for Bobby Wellins' tenor solos and for piano-playing which showed no American influence
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