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Jazz Journal
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
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
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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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