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Jazz Journal
JJ 04/65: Stan Getz – Getz Au Go Go
Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Getz's return to red-blooded jazz playing even if he was still burdened by the bloodless singing of Astrud Gilberto
JJ 04/65: Bill Evans – Dig It!
Sixty years ago Steve Voce noted that Evans' clinical and airless sound was a new one for jazz and one that had a vital effect on the musicians around him
JJ 03/95: Azimuth – Azimuth / Touchstone / Depart
Thirty years ago Richard Palmer hated 'all 140 cloying, airless, arch and self-congratulatory minutes' of ECM's Azimuth retrospective
JJ 03/95: Dave O’Higgins – Beats Working For A Living
Thirty years ago, on the evidence of O'Higgins' NYC set with Calderazzo, Genus, Locke and Nussbaum, Stan Woolley thought the young saxophonist deserved to rise to the top
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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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