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Jazz Journal
JJ 04/64: Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley’s Beach Party
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill said reviews of R&B were included in JJ because much of it was firmly based in the true blues tradition
JJ 04/64: Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill reckoned Hubbard blew in the Miles style and Spaulding, although touched by modernism, had his own voice
JJ 04/64: Wes Montgomery – Full House
Sixty years ago Steve Voce thought Wes's impeccable ballads would cause much breaking of guitars by frustrated players throughout the realm
JJ 04/64: Dick Morrissey, interviewed
Sixty years ago John Shirley interviewed the young saxophonist he thought a deserving successor to Tubby Hayes
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JJ 04/64: In My Opinion – Quincy Jones
Sixty years ago the famed arranger set the record straight on the blues, the avant-garde and the origins of jazz
Michael Cuscuna dies
A jazz archaeologist before it became fashionable, Cuscuna was famed for unearthing overlooked Blue Note material and founding Mosaic Records
Keith Emerson reimagined for strings and more
An unplugged tribute to the British progressive rock pioneer by eminent French arranger Thierry Eliez is reissued this month
Gypsy Jazz Festival of London, 6-13 May
Festival director Tobie Medland looks forward to seeing Stochelo Rosenberg, Gismo Graf, Tcha Limberger and more
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Simon Spillett Big Band, Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking
Graham Thomas saw Simon Spillett's collection of Tubby Hayes big-band scores brought to life by a 17-piece orchestra
JJ 03/94: Eberhard Weber – Pendulum
Thirty years ago, Michael Tucker thought the German bassist's loopy, multi-tracked solo album an essential buy
JJ 03/94: The Jazz Guitar
Thirty years ago, before the web was awash with biography, Mark Gilbert welcomed the third edition of Summerfield's jazz-guitar encyclopaedia
JJ 03/84: Holdsworth, Young, Guy, Mathewson, Stevens – Retouch
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert enjoyed hearing virtuoso guitarist Holdsworth thriving in an open-ended, semi-free setting
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