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Jazz Journal
JJ 10/75: The Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found the Chicago saxophonist's explorations of free improvisation, pitch, timbre and silence to be partially successful
JJ 10/75: Bill Connors – Theme To The Gaurdian
Fifty years ago Steve Voce declared himself an ECM fan, an allegiance reinforced by his encounter with Bill Connors, 'a beautiful guitarist and composer of themes of great melody and grace'
JJ 10/65: Ornette Coleman at Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Sixty years ago Barry McRae thought he had witnessed one of the greatest of all jazz musicians, even if the violin playing amounted to a dissipation of his talent
JJ 10/65: Wayne Shorter – Juju
Sixty years ago the 60-something JJ editor Sinclair Traill thought Shorter's latest album one for young people with strong ear drums and little sensitivity to walls of sound
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JJ 10/65: Blue Mitchell – The Thing To Do
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner said The Thing To Do - featuring the young Chick Corea - would suit those with a 'partiality for honest, no-tricks jazz'
JJ 10/65: In My Opinion – Alton Purnell
Sixty years ago the veteran New Orleans pianist was full of praise for Louis Armstrong but acknowledged too that the English had got quite a bit of that NO feeling
In South Wales? Take the Coaltrains
It's not St Pancras International. It doesn’t have the dramatic Victorian architecture of Liverpool Lime Street, the hustle and bustle of Birmingham New Street,...
Julia Yagunova: from Shanghai’s JZ Club to London
Russian-born pianist Julia Yagunova has built an international career that reflects the global spirit of today’s jazz. From her studies in the United States...
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JJ 09/95: Don Grolnick, interviewed
Thirty years ago pianist Grolnick, famed as the composer of Pools, spoke to Mark Gilbert, touching on Bill Evans, pretension, earthy jazz, Barry Rogers and more
JJ 09/95: Joe Zawinul – The Beginning & Zawinul
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert was intrigued by the unforeseeble transformations in the music of the Viennese master between 1959 and 1971
JJ 09/95: Estoril-Cascais jazz festival, reviewed
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert reported on the 14th Estoril-Cascais jazz festival in Portugal, which included Nat Adderley, George Shearing and Ray Brown
JJ 09/95: Norma Winstone – Well Kept Secret
Thirty years ago Bruce Crowther said that every encounter with singer Norma Winstone seemed like a first time, such was her capacity for reinvention
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