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Jazz Journal
New York ramblings
New York is still clearly alive and well, at least on the jazz front.
We caught Broken Shadows (Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and...
Milestones, Fishermen’s Club, Eastbourne
Jasmine Sharif saw Terry Seabrook's Milestones sextet play homage to Miles Davis's 1959 classic Kind Of Blue
JJ 03/59: Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars, Vol. 4
The oboe and flute duets by Bob Cooper and Bud Shank have become quite a tradition at the Lighthouse, one of the few remaining...
JJ 03/59: Andre Previn And His Pals – Gigi
Continuing in the current vogue for recording jazz versions of popular musical shows, Previn, Manne and Mitchell here turn out what to my mind,...
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JJ 03/59: The Modern Jazz Quartet – One Never Knows
Individually, the four members of the MJQ are the most extraordinary musicians. On their own, they are jazzmen of the first rank who have...
JJ 03/59: Yusef Lateef Quintet: Before Dawn / The Sounds of Yusef
Most of the music to be heard in the first of these albums is reasonably conventional and features excellent tenor from Yusef, in the...
JJ 03/59: Billie Holiday
Having had the original version of "Strange Fruit" in my possession for almost 20 years, I find it difficult not to be prejudiced against...
JJ 03/59: Hampton Hawes – All Night Session Vols. 1, 2 And 3
These sixteen selections are the result of one all-night sitting - a marathon jazz session, with, we are told, no editing. It was certainly...
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JJ 03/59: Duke Ellington – Newport 1958
Here are many of the numbers that Duke featured on his recent visit, now released here for the first time. The whole constitutes the...
JJ 03/59: Bing Crosby With Buddy Cole And His Trio New Tricks (Parts 1 To 3)
Even though "things ain't what they used to be" with the Old Groaner, he can still put most of the modern pop singers to...
JJ 03/59: Chris Barber – Not In Hi Fi
"Petit Fleur" or no "Petit Fleur", I cannot imagine any justification for resurrecting "Didn't He Ramble" - a sad and sorry performance even when...
JJ 03/59: Mose Allison Trio – Local Color
If Mose Allison's first record set the critics talking, this one has laid them by the ears. There is something so earthy about this...
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