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Jazz Journal
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
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JJ 01/76: Jean-Luc Ponty – Sunday Walk
Fifty years ago Barry McRae reckoned Ponty suffered from being dubbed the Coltrane of the violin and was better off in a bebop setting, as here
JJ 01/76: Donald Byrd – Black Byrd
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner saw a once reliable jazz player prostrate before the temptation of 'commercial trivia'
New releases December 2025 – January 2026, O-R
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Gary Peacock, Noah Peterson, Roy Powell, QOW Trio and Joel Ross // Editor's pick: Joel Ross
JJ 01/66: Dudley Moore – The Other Side Of Dudley Moore
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles was pleased to see Dudley Moore take time off from TV 'frivolity' to make his record debut as 'a gifted jazzman'
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JJ 01/66: Michael Garrick – Promises & Anthem
Sixty years ago Michael Shera found two Garrick records 'a complete waste of time and money' aside from some good solos by Tony Coe and Joe Harriott
JJ 01/66: Owning Up
Sixty years ago Steve Voce thought Owning Up was very funny but also a book that described a life of pointlessness and bleak horror
JJ 01/66: Johnny Hodges, interviewed by Henry Whiston
Sixty years ago the best-known Ellington altoist talked of his chief influence, of the East Coast scene of the 1920s, of cutting contests and of his favourite Duke tunes
New releases December 2025 – January 2026, M-N
Mabern, Harold: Afro Blue
They say : Special 10th anniversary edition of a remastered, remixed Afro Blue album (2014) to be released on what would've been Harold...
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