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Jazz Journal
JJ 03/95: Clark Tracey – Full Speed Sideways
Thirty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed a record from some outstanding London players who weren't fashionable figures with major label contracts
JJ 03/85: Tito Puente – El Rey
Forty years ago Stan Woolley delighted in what he thought was the best yet of the jazz-inclined timbalero's Concord albums
JJ 03/85: Coleman Hawkins
Forty years ago Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone
JJ 03/85: Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music at Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Forty years ago Simon Adams saw Moiré Music avoid the pitfall of over-arrangement with fine solos from such as Simon Picard, Lol Coxhill and leader Trevor Watts
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JJ 03/85: Ujamaa / John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia / Abdullah Ibrahim
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw siblinghood variously endorsed and questioned at a concert to mark Greater London Council's Jobs Year
JJ 03/75: Norma Winstone on Jazz Club, 19.1.75
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan said that while Winstone wasn't an innovator, her tonal versatility, technique, control, emotional involvement and sheer stylishness meant she performed at the highest level
JJ 03/75: Stan Kenton at the Festival Hall
Fifty years ago Hugh Witt gave the Kenton band, featuring a young Peter Erskine, a qualified thumbs up, wishing there had been more than glimpses of what would happen if the band took off
JJ 03/75: Michel Legrand at Hammersmith
Fifty years ago Robert Walton reviewed Legrand's first live London appearance, admired his ability to charm from the first moment and heard Phil Woods match Tubby Hayes in the magical saxophone stakes
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JJ 03/75: Don Cherry – Eternal Rhythm
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found in Cherry's world music moments of riveting grandeur too often swamped in shapeless gouts of sound just as they seemed to be taking him somewhere he wanted to go
JJ 03/75: Larry Coryell – Spaces
Fifty years ago, listening to Coryell and McLaughlin (accompanied by Corea, Vitous and Cobham) Barry McRae reckoned McLaughlin the better player because of his ascetism
JJ 03/65: In My Opinion – Jimmy Woods
Sixty years ago Chico Hamilton's saxman reacted to Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style might be a straitjacket leading to an entirely unemotional way of playing
JJ 03/65: Bill Evans – Trio ’64
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles salivated copiously over the pianist's 'fluid elaborations of pieces we are liable to whistle in the bath'
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