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Jazz Journal

New releases June-July 2025, P-R

Paris, Pietro: Folk Traffic They say : Folk Traffic is a musical ensemble exploring the intersection of improvisation and composition, blending formal structures with dynamic sonic dialogue....

JJ 07/75: Norma Winstone, interviewed by Stan Woolley

Fifty years ago, the British singer talked of influences or lack of, the ignorance of jazz critics, the shrinking London jazz scene and the avant-garde/standards divide

New releases June-July 2025, L-O

Records offered to Jazz Journal for review in May-June 2025, including Lophae, Madre Vaca, Mark Masters & Billy Harper, Eric McPherson and Greg Murphy // Editor's pick: Mark Masters

JJ 07/75: Weather Report – Mysterious Traveller

Fifty years ago, Barry McRae found passages of introspection rather than swing redeemed a record beset with 'rock rhythms' and special 'effects'.
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New releases June-July 2025, H-K

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Noah Haidu, Fred Hersch, John Lee Hooker, Keith Jarrett and Peter Johnstone // Editor's pick: Noah Haidu

JJ 07/65: John Coltrane – My Favourite Things

Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner concluded that despite Coltrane's claim of divine inspiration on A Love Supreme he sounded a better improviser in 1960 than in 1965

JJ 07/65: Alexis Korner – Blues Incorporated

Sixty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter didn't allow that Britons could sing in the foreign tongue of Mississippi but loved Korner's blues-inspired instrumentals

JJ 07/65: John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield seemed to approve of the saxophonist's take on jazz preaching, finding it 'at no point ugly as some of his work has been'
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New releases June-July 2025, F-G

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Joe Farnsworth, Nick Finzer, Freedom Art Quartet, Danny Gatton, Roger Glenn and Jerry Goodman // Editor's pick: Roger Glenn

iG4 featuring Claire Martin, Nikki Iles, Karen Sharp and Ewan Hastie

There was a full house for this concert by iG4, which, Claire Martin explained, stood for "Inter-Generational 4’" owing to the presence of the...

New releases June-July 2025, C-D

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Candido, Colin Steele Quartet, Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Miles Davis and Eric Dolphy // Editor's pick: Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra

New releases June-July 2025, A-B

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Rez Abbasi, Afro Cuban All Stars, Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring, Tim Boniface and Rick Braun // Editor's pick: Rez Abbasi
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