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JJ 06/59: Ornette Coleman – Something Else
Ornette Coleman is a new name to British lists, having been voted into sixth place in the Downbeat 1958 New Stars poll, in which...
JJ 06/69: Don Ellis: Autumn
Continued listening to the Ellis band confirms that it is firstly an exciting band with great capabilities, and secondly that the excitement, which has...
JJ 06/59: Jazz festivals
Jazz festivals, like spring, would seem to be busting out all over this year. Both here and over the Atlantic we hear of more...
A Great Day for Leamington Spa
Many readers will know about Art Kane’s famous photograph A Great Day In Harlem, which was published in Esquire magazine. In 1958 Kane put...
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Remembering Bob Efford
Reading Gordon Jack’s very good obituary for Bob Efford I was reminded that I saw Bob a few times in the UK (with Heath, I think)...
Layale Chaker & Sarafande: Inner Rhyme
Jasmine Sharif found a veritable Silk Road of musical traditions in the debut recording from classical Lebanese violinist Chaker
50 years of jazz in pictures
Photographer Brian O'Connor, whose photos have graced Jazz Journal for the last decade or more, has an exhibition of his work at The Hawth...
Doris Day: a great entertainer, not a symbol of repression
She never won an Oscar, never won a Grammy. But, except for perhaps Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, no other American entertainer left such...
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JJ 05/89: Jazz awards
I saw a copy of The Melody Maker for the first time in many years. Not a pretty sight these days, and even worse...
JJ 05/79: Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg & John Christensen / Neil Ardley Group at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Whilst having a deep admiration for Neil Ardley's obvious talents, I have to admit to a sense of disappointment in regard to his latest...
JJ 05/79: Johnny Griffin and the jazz life force
Johnny Griffin's playing during a two-week engagement at the Ronnie Scott Club last February was a most eloquent and forceful reaffirmation of musical integrity....
JJ 05/69: Colosseum at Wood Green Jazz Club
At least one of the progressive pop groups should be of interest to readers of this magazine. In the course of one session at...
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