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Looking for Ted Curson
I enjoyed making the acquaintance of the new online version of JJ and reading about Brian Morton's encounter with trumpeter Ted Curson in Finland in...
Liddle matter of Rendell
Lance Liddle wonders if I was confusing Don Rendell with Don Lang. My JJ November 2018 article on Ronnie Ross mentioned that Rendell took a very fine tenor solo on...
JJ poll: wit and wisdom
A great job on the poll. What a wealth of wit and wisdom is dispensed by you and your oh so various contributors. Much...
Hermeto Pascoal, that crazy Brazilian albino
Hermeto Pascoal is an enigma. He creates music out of almost any object that he can get his hands on, from his beard to...
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Jazz Record of the Year 2018: The JJ Critics’ Poll
Did JJ's critics arrive at a consensus from the list of 937 CDs from around the world that we reviewed in 2018, with no whittling down or arbitrary filtration?
John Pittman: Kinship
This Canadian ensemble, with a core of three players from Winnipeg, performs in a thoroughly mainstream manner, led firmly and faultlessly by trumpeter John...
JJ 01/69: Lightly & Politely, by Stanley Dance
--1156--NEW LEAF FOR '69?
We have lived with this magazine's custom of not recessing the beginning of paragraphs a long while. We still don't like...
JJ 01/69: Mike Garrick – Black Marigolds
Michael Garrick, gifted young composer and pianist with the Carr/Rendell Quintet, is well showcased on this sober, musicianly LP. With the aid of his...
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JJ 01/69: Ronnie Ross – Cleopatra’s Needle
A crisp, swinging, well-executed programme of mainstream/modern, 'Cleopatra's Needle' is a splendid advertisement for British jazz. Ronnie Ross plays some of the most inventive...
JJ 01/69: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple
Wayne Shorter is a bitch. A beautiful, complete player who since joining Miles has passed beyond his Coltrane phase, to a wholly personal sound...
JJ 01/69: Miles Davis – Miles in the Sky
What with the pop-art cover, and Tony Williams' R&B patterns on Stuff, I wondered what Miles was letting us in for. Surely he hadn't...
JJ 01/69: Horace Silver at Ronnie Scott’s, November 1968
Ronnie Scott's genteel and suave new ground floor housed Horace Silver's most recent quintet for three weeks in November. The material - invariably Silver's...
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