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Jazz Journal
JJ 05/96: Shooting From The Hip
Thirty years ago, while not always agreeing with John Fordham's taste, Richard Palmer recommended a collection of what he wrote about jazz for the Guardian and others between 1970 and 1996
JJ 05/96: British Saxophone Quartet – Early October
American role models notwithstanding, 30 years ago Barry McRae heard the BSQ of Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard and George Haslam go their own way
JJ 05/86: Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but hoped too that Holdsworth might one day play with Corea, DeJohnette and Holland
JJ 05/86: Joe Henderson – Our Thing
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was pleased to be acquainted with the early work of a saxophonist who, by 1986, had become a major and abiding influence on contemporary saxophone
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JJ 05/86: The Guest Stars – Out At Night
Forty years ago, Simon Adams welcomed the jazz, funk, Latin and African mix of British all-female group The Guest Stars' second album while looking forward to more risk-taking on their next
JJ 05/86: Camden Jazz Week, London
Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the original, now perpetual, British jazz revival
JJ 05/76: Lonnie Liston-Smith – Visions Of A New World
Liston-Smith's mid-70s records have become articles of faith for acid-jazzers, but 50 years ago, Roger Dean didn't get as far as musicological analysis of Visions, deeming it 'extremely monotonous'
JJ 05/76: Ralph Towner – Solstice
Fifty years ago, Burnett James found that the sitar gimmickry of the 60s had matured into a proper Indian - or at least Eastern - influence in jazz
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JJ 05/76: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – Jaywalkin’
Fifty years ago, Michael Shera found strings of bass solos and Pedersen's compositions rather dull but seemed to miss two incandescent and redeeming bop solos on Cheryl
JJ 05/76: Paul Bley, John Gilmore, Jimmy Giuffre – Alone Again / Quiet Song / Turning Point
Fifty years ago, Roger Dean, unusually among jazz critics, gave a musicological thumbs-up to the first issues on Bley's own record label
JJ 05/66: Dick Morrissey – Storm Warning
Sixty years ago, after noting that many British groups start with a handicap, Michael Shera thoroughly recommended Dick Morrissey's new album
JJ 05/66: Jacques Loussier – Play Bach Aux Champs-Élysées
Sixty years ago, Gerald Lascelles noted that Loussier outclassed other jazzers of the classics because he had obvious and detailed understanding of Bach's scores
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