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Jazz Journal
New releases February-March 2026, A-B
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in January-February 2026, including Eivind Aarset, Melissa Aldana, Richard Andersson, Bobby Broom and Clifford Brown-Max Roach // Editor's pick: Richard Andersson
JJ 02/96: Tribal Tech – Reality Check
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed TT's latest, not least for its reminders of the melodic clarity of the mid-80s Spears and for the incendiary roadhouse R&B of Nite Club
JJ 02/96: Jaco – The Extraordinary And Tragic Life Of Jaco Pastorius
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert read a book that was a corrective to the sage view of the 80s and 90s that jazz had lost its characters long ago
JJ 02/96: Charlie Hunter Trio – Bing, Bing, Bing!
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard John Scofield in Hunter's Blue Note debut but also individuality in his orchestral eight-string technique and his jazzing of Nirvana
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JJ 02/96: Esbjorn Svensson Trio – Mr & Mrs Handkerchief
Thirty years ago Derek Ansell welcomed a good straightahead piano trio but wondered why they used an old fag-stained pub joanna to record their new album
JJ 02/96: For Jazz: 21 Sonnets
Thirty years ago Floyd Levin enjoyed the Who guitarist's tributes to a music and musicians some million miles from Marshall stacks and smashed Strats
JJ 02/86: Terje Rypdal – Chaser
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert observed that while the Norwegian guitarist's enjoyable rock-outs were novel for ECM, they were commonplace in a broader context
JJ 02/86: Lennie Tristano – Continuity
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert found more of Tristano's bop alternativism in sidemen Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz than in the leader's playing
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JJ 02/86: Warne Marsh – Jazz From The East Village
Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but still plenty of feeling, invention and rhythmic life
JJ 02/86: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple & Blues A La Carte
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert looked for the essence of Shorter's individual style by contrasting a 1959 and 1966 album
JJ 02/76: Freddie Hubbard – Polar AC
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found himself chasing a jelly around a bath of soapy water as he pursued the substance of Hubbard's latest
JJ 02/76: Celebrating The Duke And Others
Fifty years ago Burnett James greatly admired the 'genuine perception and independent thought' of musicians' critic Ralph Gleason
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