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Jazz Journal
JJ 04/86: Rhythm-A-Ning
Forty years ago, Chris Sheridan applauded Gary Giddins' misapprehension of fusion as music of 'stuffed rhythms, runny intonation, bloodshot melodies'
JJ 04/76: Tony Bennett & Bill Evans – The Tony Bennett And Bill Evans Album
Fifty years ago, Michael Shera heard Bill Evans making one of the best singers of popular song sound better than he was
JJ 04/76: Dexter Gordon – Stable Mable
Fifty years ago, Steve Voce observed that the bare-bones setting of tenor and rhythm exposes weakness but that in Dexter's case there wasn't any
JJ 04/76: Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh At Middleton Hall, Hull
Fifty years ago, Michael Shera marvelled at seeing Warne Marsh - 'the greatest tenor saxophonist active in jazz at present' - appearing, improbably, in Hull
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JJ 04/66: Eddie Harris – The In Sound
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, declaring himself resolutely out with the Out Sound, couldn't square Harris's immaculate tone and technique with the way he deployed them
JJ 04/66: Paul Desmond – Glad To Be Unhappy
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner was glad to find that while the jazz scene in general lacked good taste and sincerity, those qualities were abundant in the work of Paul Desmond and Jim Hall
JJ 04/66: Freddie Hubbard – The Night Of The Cookers – Vol. One
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner enjoyed the sparks flying when two creative, virtuoso bebop trumpeters - Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan - locked horns
Mike Westbrook dies
The death is reported of pianist, composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook, aged 90. His manager, Peter Conway, today issued the following notice.
Mike Westbrook OBE,...
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JJ 03/96: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert plumbed the familial and musical origins of one of the leading individualists of the modern period
JJ 03/96: Paula Gardiner – Tales Of Inclination
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed a debut that wrought familiar material - including reminders of ECM, Metheny, Debussy and Grieg - into something fresh and individual
JJ 03/96: Jack Bruce – Monkjack
Thirty years ago, Simon Adams listened to a 'a set of atmospheric, occasionally portentous songs that promise much and sometimes deliver it'
JJ 03/86: Tito Puente And His Latin Ensemble – Mambo Diablo
Hace 40 años, Simon Adams estaba de acuerdo en que el diablo tiene todas las mejores melodías y felicitó a Puente por haber convertido Take Five en una canción agradable
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