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JJ 02/86: Warne Marsh – Jazz From The East Village
Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but still plenty of feeling, invention and rhythmic life
JJ 02/86: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple & Blues A La Carte
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert looked for the essence of Shorter's individual style by contrasting a 1959 and 1966 album
JJ 02/76: Freddie Hubbard – Polar AC
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found himself chasing a jelly around a bath of soapy water as he pursued the substance of Hubbard's latest
JJ 02/76: Celebrating The Duke And Others
Fifty years ago Burnett James greatly admired the 'genuine perception and independent thought' of musicians' critic Ralph Gleason
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JJ 02/76: Jim Hall – Concierto
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan loved a session of master melodists that also marked the return of a more assured and more capable Chet Baker
JJ 02/66: In My Opinion – Bob Thiele
Sixty years ago record producer Bob Thiele held forth on the avant-garde work of yes, Bob James, on Duke Ellington and pop music and on Hines, Hawkins, Mulligan and Barry Harris
JJ 02/66: The Quartette Très Bien – Stepping Out
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the African-influenced music of US trio Quartette Très Bien had such abandon that he couldn't believe it was all arranged
JJ 02/66: Bobby Wellins – The New Departures Quartet
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner was pleased to find somebody else - Bobby Wellins of the 'stove-pipe' sound - who sounded like they had been listening to Warne Marsh
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Simon Spillett Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s
It took a while – six years almost to the day – for Simon Spillett’s Big Band to make it from the humble setting...
52nd International Jazz Piano Festival, Kalisz, Poland
The 52nd International Jazz Piano Festival in Kalisz, Poland (20-23 November 2025) was the first edition prepared by Krzysztof Herdzin, who assumed the role...
JJ 01/96: Jazz – The Rough Guide
Thirty years ago Alun Morgan was very pleased with the revised edition of Carr, Fairweather and Priestley's not-so-rough guide to jazz
JJ 01/96: Wayne Shorter – High Life
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical mastery of his early 60s Blue Notes
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