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Jazz Journal
New releases Oct-Nov 2024, C-D
Cardinho, Eduardo: Not Far From Paradise
They say : Eduardo Cardinho (vib, keyb), João Mortágua (as), José Diogo Martins (Rhodes, synths), Frederico Heliodoro (b, g), Diogo Alexandre...
New releases Oct-Nov 2024, A-B
2R+2B: Live At The Tbilisi Jazz Festival 1978
They say : One of the most important Latvian jazz ensembles of the 1970s - quartet "2R + 2B"....
JJ 09/94: Mark Murphy – Very Early
Thirty years ago Bruce Crowther noted that the not so early Murphy still approached music with wit, understanding and breathtaking gusto
JJ 09/94: David Murray – Live ’93 Acoustic Octfunk
Thirty years ago Barry McRae said it was easy to take the ubiquitous Murray for granted, even as he perpetually sought novelty
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JJ 09/84: Pat Metheny – Rejoicing
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert admired Metheny's luminous reading of Horace Silver and the shimmering physicality of Billy Higgins' brushwork
JJ 09/84: Miles Davis – Decoy
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert noticed that Decoy was the most arranged of Davis's comeback albums and marked by John Scofield's contributions
JJ 09/84: Chick Corea – Children’s Songs
Forty years ago Richard Palmer found nothing that even obliquely qualified as jazz in Corea's record but recommended it to any committed jazz listener
JJ 09/74: Joe Pass – Virtuoso
Fifty years ago Burnett James really admired the musicality of Pass's solo work but thought he needed a better tone and action
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JJ 09/74: Carla Bley – Tropic Appetites
Fifty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed what was essentially a jazz record, featuring Gato Barbieri, Julie Tippetts, Dave Holland and Paul Motian
JJ 09/74: Michael Garrick – Troppo
Fifty years ago, absent The Individualism Of Gil Evans, Steve Voce might have chosen a Mike Garrick set as record of the month
JJ 09/74: Jazz – emergence as an international art form
Fifty years ago the US avant-gardist Milo Fine lamented the effect of partisan politics on jazz, hoping that music would prevail
JJ 09/64: Mark Murphy – Mark Time!
Sixty years ago Liverpudlian Steve Voce said Murphy made clear Lennon & McCartney's writing skills and made Sinatra obsolescent
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