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Jazz Journal
Christian McBride, Benny Green & Gregory Hutchinson at Ronnie Scott’s
If you are looking for musicians to celebrate a bassist as unmistakable and influential as Ray Brown this trio surely sits near the very...
New releases October-November 2025, A-B
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Pete Allen, Baby Vortex, Usein Bekirov, Billy Hart and Greg Burrows // Editor's pick: Baby Vortex
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2025
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF), now in its 28th year, continues to stake its claim as the première jazz festival in Australia and...
Gwilym Simcock & Tommy Smith at Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking
For their Watermill gig, Tommy Smith and Gwilym Simcock mainly featured their own compositions. Tommy played with expressive power, occasionally using high-register harmonics and...
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Pete Allen launches his new album at Pizza Express
The Pete Allen Jazz Band launch their new album with two gigs in November: the first is on Sunday 2nd November at The Bowlers Arms,...
JJ 10/95: Keith Jarrett Trio – Standards In Norway
Thirty years ago, faced with a particularly constrained repertoire session, Michael Tucker asked 'Just how many Keith Jarrett Standards releases does your collection need?'
JJ 10/95: Jason Rebello/Joy Rose – Last Dance
Thirty years ago Simon Adams reviewed Rebello's last session before the pianist went into a Buddhist retreat and looked forward to his return
JJ 10/85: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – Full Score
Forty years ago Stan Woolley said that NYJO, against opposition, didn't need to play standards, so strong was its original writing and its improvisation
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JJ 10/85: Wes Montgomery
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert reviewed a biography of an innovative and influential guitarist who had no intention of being a musician
JJ 10/85: Jan Garbarek Quartet at Logan Hall, London
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert witnessed a typically sombre Garbarek performance featuring David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua
JJ 10/85: Jazz Styles: History And Analysis – Second Edition
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed Gridley's encyclopedic codification of jazz history - a task that in the fragmented and retrospective post-90 scene might be impossible
JJ 10/85: Bob Berg, ‘figure essentielle dans la generation actuelle des tenors newyorkais’
Forty years ago saxophonist Berg talked to Mark Gilbert about teenage rebellion, Cedar Walton, Miles Davis, white NY tenor players, heroin addiction, his axe and more
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