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Jazz Journal

JJ 02/96: Charlie Hunter Trio – Bing, Bing, Bing!

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard John Scofield in Hunter's Blue Note debut but also individuality in his orchestral eight-string technique and his jazzing of Nirvana

JJ 02/96: Esbjorn Svensson Trio – Mr & Mrs Handkerchief

Thirty years ago Derek Ansell welcomed a good straightahead piano trio but wondered why they used an old fag-stained pub joanna to record their new album

JJ 02/96: For Jazz: 21 Sonnets

Thirty years ago Floyd Levin enjoyed the Who guitarist's tributes to a music and musicians some million miles from Marshall stacks and smashed Strats

JJ 02/86: Terje Rypdal – Chaser

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert observed that while the Norwegian guitarist's enjoyable rock-outs were novel for ECM, they were commonplace in a broader context
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JJ 02/86: Lennie Tristano – Continuity

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert found more of Tristano's bop alternativism in sidemen Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz than in the leader's playing

JJ 02/86: Warne Marsh – Jazz From The East Village

Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but still plenty of feeling, invention and rhythmic life

JJ 02/86: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple & Blues A La Carte

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert looked for the essence of Shorter's individual style by contrasting a 1959 and 1966 album

JJ 02/76: Freddie Hubbard – Polar AC

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found himself chasing a jelly around a bath of soapy water as he pursued the substance of Hubbard's latest
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JJ 02/76: Celebrating The Duke And Others

Fifty years ago Burnett James greatly admired the 'genuine perception and independent thought' of musicians' critic Ralph Gleason

JJ 02/76: Jim Hall – Concierto

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan loved a session of master melodists that also marked the return of a more assured and more capable Chet Baker

JJ 02/66: In My Opinion – Bob Thiele

Sixty years ago record producer Bob Thiele held forth on the avant-garde work of yes, Bob James, on Duke Ellington and pop music and on Hines, Hawkins, Mulligan and Barry Harris

JJ 02/66: The Quartette Très Bien – Stepping Out

Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the African-influenced music of US trio Quartette Très Bien had such abandon that he couldn't believe it was all arranged
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