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Jazz Journal
Nils Kavanagh Trio at Abergavenny
Nostalgia for locale has emerged in the music of two young jazz pianists contributing to the post Bill Evans, EST and Brad Mehldau trio...
JJ 04/96: Soft Heap – A Veritable Centaur
Thirty years ago, Simon Adams heard some vital music from a 1980s Softs offshoot featuring Elton Dean, Mark Hewins and Pip Pyle
JJ 04/96: Herbie Hancock – The New Standard
Thirty years ago, Richard Palmer had no problem with jazzing superior rock but found these interpretations didn't add much to Prince, Steely Dan, Wonder, Nirvana et al
JJ 04/96: Alec and John Dankworth Generation Big Band – Rhythm Changes
Thirty years ago, enjoying a varied and virtuoso set, Eddie Blackwell sounded to have discovered the best of British, among them Tim Garland, Gerard Presencer, Stuart Hall and Robin Aspland
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JJ 04/86: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert had his first go at fathoming the mysterious roots of the tenor and composition giant
JJ 04/86: Loose Tubes
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed one manifestation of the 80s jazz 'revival' that properly reflected the vitality implicit the term
JJ 04/86: Herbie Hancock / Foday Musa Suso – Village Life
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was disappointed that Herbie Hancock seemed disinclined to relieve the monotony of 40 minutes of noodling kora
JJ 04/86: Rhythm-A-Ning
Forty years ago, Chris Sheridan applauded Gary Giddins' misapprehension of fusion as music of 'stuffed rhythms, runny intonation, bloodshot melodies'
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JJ 04/76: Tony Bennett & Bill Evans – The Tony Bennett And Bill Evans Album
Fifty years ago, Michael Shera heard Bill Evans making one of the best singers of popular song sound better than he was
JJ 04/76: Dexter Gordon – Stable Mable
Fifty years ago, Steve Voce observed that the bare-bones setting of tenor and rhythm exposes weakness but that in Dexter's case there wasn't any
JJ 04/76: Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh At Middleton Hall, Hull
Fifty years ago, Michael Shera marvelled at seeing Warne Marsh - 'the greatest tenor saxophonist active in jazz at present' - appearing, improbably, in Hull
JJ 04/66: Eddie Harris – The In Sound
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, declaring himself resolutely out with the Out Sound, couldn't square Harris's immaculate tone and technique with the way he deployed them
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