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Jazz Journal
New releases August-September 2025, A-B
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in July-August 2025, including 3 Cohens & WDR Big Band, Kenny Barron, Matt Bianco, Jonathan Blake and Till Brönner // Editor's pick: Joe Bowden
JJ 08/95: Dick Morrissey – Love Dance
Thirty years ago David Lands heard ailing tenor master Dick Morrissey in the autumn of his years but with his musical powers as strong as his 1960s-80s best
JJ 08/95: Scott Hamilton – Organic Duke
Being so pervasive and so widely tolerated, retrospection today hardly registers as such, but 30 years ago Derek Ansell could quite reasonably refer to Hamilton as a very skilful throwback
JJ 08/95: The Gibson ES175 / The Guitar Players / The Guitarist Book Of Guitar Players / Django’s Gypsies – The Mystique Of Django...
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert enjoyed seeing the rubber grommet which appeared under the Gibson ES175's pickup selector switch in the late 50s given proper recognition
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JJ 08/85: Joe’s Mode
Over the last quarter century, John Coltrane's influence on saxophone style has been so pervasive that other similar sounding players have often been regarded...
JJ 08/85: Wayne Shorter – JuJu
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw in Shorter's singular way with harmony and melody the seeds of modern jazz as represented a decade later by the mature Weather Report
JJ 08/85: Pat Metheny Group – The Falcon And The Snowman
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert thought Metheny and Mays' soundtrack for The Falcon And The Snowman was the inevitable corollary of the cinematic tone of the ECM label, for which they also recorded
JJ 08/75: Arild Andersen – Clouds In My Head
Fifty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed the bits - especially the bass and piano duet - that weren't blighted by stiff, vertical drumming
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JJ 08/75: Billy Butterfield at the 100 Club
Fifty years ago Dig Fairweather was delighted by a 'lovely night of good and great jazz' where local talent was well-matched with the visiting American trumpeter
JJ 08/75: The Bracknell Jazz Festival
Fifty years ago Barry McRae hoped the first Bracknell jazz festival would have a sequel in 1976. In the event, it became, over the next decade, a beacon for the newest and best in contemporary jazz
JJ 08/65: Don Rendell & Ian Carr – Shades Of Blue
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles commended 'a fine example of British jazz, matching and surpassing much of the stuff which is fobbed off on us from America'
JJ 08/65: Zoot Sims & Al Cohn at Ronnie Scott’s
Sixty years ago, Michael Shera acknowledged that the music of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims was outrageously unfashionable, being neither harsh nor ugly - but he left Ronnie's with trousers intact
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