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Jazz Journal
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
JJ 09/64: Andrew Hill – Black Fire
Sixty years ago Michael Shera thought Hill's listenable avant-garde record probably one of the most important albums to appear in five years
JJ 09/64: The Joe Harriott Quintet – Movement
Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield said that if Harriott was an Ornette Coleman imitator, it was without the vocal quality
JJ 09/64: In My Opinion – Henry ‘Red’ Allen
Sixty years ago the New Orleans veteran gave his views on Walter Pichon, Luis Russel, Jelly Roll Morton, Spike Hughes, King Oliver and more
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JJ 08/94: Bob Mintzer – Departure
Thirty years ago Steve Voce was pleased to find further confirmation that Bob Mintzer was the least tiresome of the Coltrane-derived players
JJ 08/94: Improvisation – Its Nature And Practice In Music
Thirty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed Bailey's observation that improvisation is anything but avant-garde, having been around forever
JJ 08/94: Ronnie Cuber, interviewed
Thirty years ago baritonist Cuber told Mark Gilbert of his journey from high-school bari fill-in to work with George Benson and Donald Fagen
JJ 08/84: The Victor Feldman Trio – To Chopin With Love
Forty years ago Ray Spencer warned weak-hearted listeners off Feldman, Patitucci & Feldman's heavy-handed readings of the ineffable Frédéric
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JJ 08/84: Benny Golson Quintet – One More Mem’ry
Forty years ago Victor Schonfield felt Golson's themes were still dull but that the instrumental anonymity of the 1950s had been overcome
JJ 08/74: Dollar Brand – African Sketchbook
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner found the SA pianist not particularly melodic and sometimes tedious but at his best a captivating individualist
JJ 08/74: Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner didn't enjoy the multi-reedman's circus act, wondering why the hell he didn't make a straight tenor album
JJ 08/74: Jan Garbarek – Witchi-Tai-To & Red Lanta
Fifty years ago Roger Dean was sorely disappointed by two releases from the Norwegian saxophonist who became a touchstone for Nordic cool
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