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JJ 05/69: Melody Maker Poll Winners Concert, RFH, London, April 1969
Every year the Melody Maker's Readers' Poll is divided into 'British' and 'Rest Of The World' categories. In April a concert was staged at...
JJ 05/69: Alice Coltrane – A Monastic Trio
If, as the sleeve suggests, this album was intended as a musical epitaph to the late John Coltrane, it does him less than justice.
Side...
JJ 05/59: Lee Konitz – The Real Lee Konitz
This is called the "real" Konitz because Konitz himself feels it to be his best recorded work to date. Lee himself chose the material...
JJ 05/59: Lester Young – a reflection, by Benny Green
The death in New York last month of forty-nine year old tenor saxophonist Lester Young deprived jazz of its most gifted figure from the...
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JJ 05/59: Miles Davis – Milestones
The Miles Davis Quintet is augmented by Julian "Cannonball" Adderly on alto sax for this album and although I find it less satisfying than...
JJ 05/59: Gene Ammons – Funky
From Gene Ammons we expect modern jazz in a booting, free-blowing, noisy tradition - and here we get it, starting with guitarist Kenny Burrell's...
Daryl Sherman returns to London with Satchmo in mind
Multi-award-winning New York singer and pianist Daryl Sherman flies to London in July for special limited dates that will mark the 20th anniversary of her first UK...
Kenny Burrell’s travails
It’s terribly sad to hear that Kenny Burrell, premier guitarist from Blue Note’s golden era of the late 50s and early 60s, has fallen...
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JJ 12/18: Obituary – Barry McRae
A longtime and prolific contributor to this magazine, Barry McRae died 7 October 2018, aged 83. He started writing in 1960 under founding editor...
Zappa’s ’Round Midnight?
That was a fine piece from Geoff Wills on the jazz elements of Frank Zappa’s music. Succinct but comprehensive.
I’d like to add only two...
Save this priceless jazz video collection
In the first days of VHS machines I purchased an early model (around 1976). As all that was commercially available at the time were...
Patrice Jégou: If It Ain’t Love
Patrice Jégou is a singer’s singer. The Canadian vocalist’s new CD, If It Ain’t Love, is a diverse album that showcases her wide-ranging talents.
For this ambitious project,...
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