1368 articles
Jazz Journal
New releases December 2025 – January 2026, T-Y
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Clark Terry, Cal Tjader, Charles Tolliver, V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions and Miroslav Vitous // Editor's pick: V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions
JJ 01/86: Jan Garbarek Group – It’s OK To Listen To The Gray Voice
Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat catalogue of Jazz"'
JJ 01/86: Charlie Watts Big Band at London Ronnie Scott’s Club
Forty years ago Martin Isherwood saw the Rolling Stones drummer leading such luminaries of British jazz as Stan Tracey, Harry Beckett and Bobby Wellins
JJ 01/86: Sun Ra Arkestra at Brixton Fridge
Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation
- Advertisement -
JJ 01/86: Pat Martino – Consciousness
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed one of the key modern jazz guitar records, a singular session replete with chromatic virtuosity
JJ 01/86: Terje Rypdal Trio at London Logan Hall
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw guitarist Rypdal's trio confirm that it was now OK for the jazz fan to listen to heavy metal music
JJ 01/86: Back Door at Newcastle Upon Tyne Corner House
Forty years ago Chris Yates saw the Yorkshire trio's organic mix of Mississippi blues, prog-rock and jazz reconvened in Newcastle as part of a Jazz Services tour
JJ 01/86: Man Jumping – Jumpcut
Forty years ago Simon Adams wanted to hear more of Man Jumping's danceable, always swinging mix of systems music, funk, electro pop and jazz
- Advertisement -
JJ 01/86: La Tristesse De Saint Louis: Swing Under The Nazis
Forty years ago Mike Hennessey reviewed a book that asked, in the light of the survival of jazz in Germany 1939-45, whether oppression is all it's made out to be
New releases December 2025 – January 2026, S
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Brandon Sanders, Woody Shaw, Gene Shelby, Wes Smith and Dave Stryker // Editor's pick: Dave Stryker
JJ 01/76: Lee Konitz At Ronnie Scott’s
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan saw saxophone original Konitz survive second billing to Blossom Dearie and sometimes unsuitable accompaniment
JJ 01/76: Tommy Whittle at The West End Club, Edinburgh
Fifty years ago Roger Craik saw saxophonist Whittle debunk the presumption that British jazzmen were good but not great
- Advertisement -