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Jazz Journal
JJ 01/85: Jan Garbarek Quartet at Brighton Polytechnic
Forty years ago Michael Tucker found that a performance by the Norwegian saxman's band with David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael DiPasqua dispelled the notion that ECM music is a one-mood affair
JJ 01/85: Houston Person – ‘I just like people who swing’
Four decades ago, between sets at the Nice jazz festival, the stoutly swinging tenor man talked to Eddie Cook about his South Carolina childhood, his late adoption of music, his Selmer sax and more
JJ 01/85: David Sanborn/Al Jarreau at Wembley Arena
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the high-quality jazz-funk of Sanborn, Miller, Gadd, Grolnick and Bullock rather overlooked and the more crossed-over Al Jarreau drawing the crowds
JJ 01/75: Miles Davis & His Tuba Band Pre-Birth Of The Cool
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found the live precursor to what became known as the Birth of the Cool rougher round the edges, surprisingly real and more compelling than its studio successor
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JJ 01/75: Dizzy Gillespie at Ronnie Scott’s
Fifty years ago Barry McRae found the bebop pioneer coasting as much as Louis Armstrong but saving the day with his delightfully boppish singing and trumpet runs of sparkling brilliance
JJ 01/65: Zbigniew Namyslowski – Lola
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner hailed the quality, authenticity, musicianship and creativity of jazz from a country - Poland - in which, only nine years earlier, the music had been proscribed as a decadent Americanism
JJ 01/65: Andrew Hill – Judgment
Sixty years ago Mike Shera noted that while Judgment was a more complete dedication to 'the new thing', it didn't represent a severance of all connection with the post-bop world
JJ 01/65: From Rah to Wow
Sixty years ago Steve Voce saw an audience of mainstream and modern enthusiasts at Club 43 in Manchester go beserk and refuse to let Mark Murphy finish at the end of the evening
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JJ 01/65: In My Opinion – Nat Pierce
Sixty years ago the Woody Herman pianist and arranger opined that Fats Waller made classics out of a lot of very bad pop tunes and that young players should get some background instead of jumping on new fads every six months
JJ 01/65: Chubby Checker With Sy Oliver
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill was very impressed by the blues and ballad singing of the man who had topped the pop charts in 1961-2 with his exhortation to twist again
JJ 01/65: Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch
Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield admired the musicianship of Dolphy's band and noted the leader's musicality and persistence. He didn't like much of the music but what he did he found gripping
Hannah Horton at East Grinstead Jazz Club
Hannah Horton grew up in rural Essex and was introduced to clarinet and saxophone by an inspiring music teacher. She did the Junior Guildhall...
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