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Jazz Journal

JJ 01/76: Jean-Luc Ponty – Sunday Walk

Fifty years ago Barry McRae reckoned Ponty suffered from being dubbed the Coltrane of the violin and was better off in a bebop setting, as here

JJ 01/76: Donald Byrd – Black Byrd

Fifty years ago Mark Gardner saw a once reliable jazz player prostrate before the temptation of 'commercial trivia'

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, O-R

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Gary Peacock, Noah Peterson, Roy Powell, QOW Trio and Joel Ross // Editor's pick: Joel Ross

JJ 01/66: Dudley Moore – The Other Side Of Dudley Moore

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles was pleased to see Dudley Moore take time off from TV 'frivolity' to make his record debut as 'a gifted jazzman'
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JJ 01/66: Michael Garrick – Promises & Anthem

Sixty years ago Michael Shera found two Garrick records 'a complete waste of time and money' aside from some good solos by Tony Coe and Joe Harriott

JJ 01/66: Owning Up

Sixty years ago Steve Voce thought Owning Up was very funny but also a book that described a life of pointlessness and bleak horror

JJ 01/66: Johnny Hodges, interviewed by Henry Whiston

Sixty years ago the best-known Ellington altoist talked of his chief influence, of the East Coast scene of the 1920s, of cutting contests and of his favourite Duke tunes

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, M-N

Mabern, Harold: Afro Blue They say : Special 10th anniversary edition of a remastered, remixed Afro Blue album (2014) to be released on what would've been Harold...
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New releases December 2025 – January 2026, I-L

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Javon Jackson, Maja Jaku, Ingrid Jensen, Julian Lage and Steve Lodder and // Editor's pick: Javon Jackson

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, E-H

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Ellas Kapell, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Herbie Hancock and Fred Hersch // Editor's pick: Herbie Hancock

Liverpool jazz festival begins 26 February

Liverpool International Jazz Festival, founded in 2013 by Liverpool Hope University, and run by the university's Creative Campus, returns 26 February - 1 March...

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, C-D

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Luc Casares, Alexis Cole, Paul Colombo, Gabriele Comeglio and Mitch Dalton // Editor's pick: Massimiliano Cignitti
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