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Jazz Journal
JJ 07/89: Terje Rypdal – The Singles Collection
After Terje and the Chasers, watch out for Thor and the Thunderbolts . . . Following his previous, rock-inflected Chaser and Blue releases, this...
JJ 07/79: The Pizza Express Jazz Festival
With his undoubted ability to cater to the public's desire for fast food in friendly surroundings and his idiosyncratic feeling for dietary variety in...
Robert Wells and Charlie McCoy to play Pizza Express
Jazz meets country and much else at Pizza Express Live, Holborn, London this summer when two legends come together in the Nashville Sessions, 19th...
When Mingus met Mitchell
"Charles Mingus, a musical mystic, died in Mexico, January 5, 1979 at the age of 56. He was cremated the next day. That same...
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Claire Martin Quartet, Shoreham, Sussex
Jasmine Sharif saw Claire Martin at Ropetackle Centre, Sunday, 23 June 2019, with Martin Sjostedt, Michael Janisch and Daniel Fredriksson
JJ 06/79: Ian Carr / Allan Holdsworth, Camden Jazz Week
Ten years ago Ian Carr was a major innovator, being one of the first British musicians to fuse rock and electronics with jazz. Yet...
JJ 06/89: Chick Corea – Akoustic Band
A highly superior issue by one of jazz's richest contemporary talents. If you know Chick's work with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes and like...
JJ 06/89: Tenors on telly
The 90-minute programme on Ben Webster presented by Channel 4 was one of the best in the genre. It made excellent use of previous...
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JJ 06/79: Double Image – Dawn
Another winsome offering from the genteel ECM stable, this time one bent strongly on the yoke of Gary Burton, especially since the nearest it...
JJ 06/69: Archie Shepp – The Way Ahead
This is no hit-or-miss session and it offers four titles that underline the leader's widely diversified talent. Damn is for 'Shepp the blues player'...
JJ 06/59: Russia: Jazz-Ho?
'Jazz does not arouse strong, cheerful feelings, but on the contrary, suppresses them. It hypnotizes you with the deathly cold beat of a machine'
For...
JJ 06/69: Woody Herman in concert in the UK
Although a certain amount of current pop material now rubs shoulders in the repertoire with original jazz scores and the Herman 'classics', the basic...
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