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Jazz Journal
Paul Higgs’ Shades of Miles, East Grinstead
Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and immediately followed it...
JJ 01/95: Joe Zawinul – The Rise And Fall Of Third Stream
Thirty years ago Derek Ansell heard Zawinul struggle to make the classical-jazz fusion work but his feet moved to the 60s soul-jazz reprises
JJ 01/95: Jack Bruce – Cities Of The Heart
Thirty years ago Graham Colombé heard Bruce with Lowther, Heckstall-Smith and Themen proffering some effective blues singing and some avant-garde jazz before revisiting Cream tracks
JJ 01/85: Abdullah Ibrahim at Shaw Theatre, London
Forty years ago Simon Adams saw the high priest of jazz contemplation play a 70-minute piano medley before before moving to a second set including tense and powerful vocals
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JJ 01/85: Kenny Wheeler – Double, Double You
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert sought solid ground in the trumpeter's compositions and improvisations, meantime taking refuge in the powerful internal logic of Michael Brecker's solos
JJ 01/85: Buddy Rich And His Orchestra at Lewisham Festival
Forty years ago Pete Gamble found the Rich big band high on precision and power but lacking in the solo department except for the leader, whose press rolls still seemed impossible to execute
JJ 01/85: Jan Garbarek Quartet at Brighton Polytechnic
Forty years ago Michael Tucker found that a performance by the Norwegian saxman's band with David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael DiPasqua dispelled the notion that ECM music is a one-mood affair
JJ 01/85: Houston Person – ‘I just like people who swing’
Four decades ago, between sets at the Nice jazz festival, the stoutly swinging tenor man talked to Eddie Cook about his South Carolina childhood, his late adoption of music, his Selmer sax and more
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JJ 01/85: David Sanborn/Al Jarreau at Wembley Arena
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the high-quality jazz-funk of Sanborn, Miller, Gadd, Grolnick and Bullock rather overlooked and the more crossed-over Al Jarreau drawing the crowds
JJ 01/75: Miles Davis & His Tuba Band Pre-Birth Of The Cool
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found the live precursor to what became known as the Birth of the Cool rougher round the edges, surprisingly real and more compelling than its studio successor
JJ 01/75: Dizzy Gillespie at Ronnie Scott’s
Fifty years ago Barry McRae found the bebop pioneer coasting as much as Louis Armstrong but saving the day with his delightfully boppish singing and trumpet runs of sparkling brilliance
JJ 01/65: Zbigniew Namyslowski – Lola
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner hailed the quality, authenticity, musicianship and creativity of jazz from a country - Poland - in which, only nine years earlier, the music had been proscribed as a decadent Americanism
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