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Jazz Journal
JJ 10/95: Jason Rebello/Joy Rose – Last Dance
Thirty years ago Simon Adams reviewed Rebello's last session before the pianist went into a Buddhist retreat and looked forward to his return
JJ 10/85: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – Full Score
Forty years ago Stan Woolley said that NYJO, against opposition, didn't need to play standards, so strong was its original writing and its improvisation
JJ 10/85: Wes Montgomery
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert reviewed a biography of an innovative and influential guitarist who had no intention of being a musician
JJ 10/85: Jan Garbarek Quartet at Logan Hall, London
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert witnessed a typically sombre Garbarek performance featuring David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua
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JJ 10/85: Jazz Styles: History And Analysis – Second Edition
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed Gridley's encyclopedic codification of jazz history - a task that in the fragmented and retrospective post-90 scene might be impossible
JJ 10/85: Bob Berg, ‘figure essentielle dans la generation actuelle des tenors newyorkais’
Forty years ago saxophonist Berg talked to Mark Gilbert about teenage rebellion, Cedar Walton, Miles Davis, white NY tenor players, heroin addiction, his axe and more
JJ 10/75: The Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found the Chicago saxophonist's explorations of free improvisation, pitch, timbre and silence to be partially successful
JJ 10/75: Bill Connors – Theme To The Gaurdian
Fifty years ago Steve Voce declared himself an ECM fan, an allegiance reinforced by his encounter with Bill Connors, 'a beautiful guitarist and composer of themes of great melody and grace'
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JJ 10/65: Ornette Coleman at Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Sixty years ago Barry McRae thought he had witnessed one of the greatest of all jazz musicians, even if the violin playing amounted to a dissipation of his talent
JJ 10/65: Wayne Shorter – Juju
Sixty years ago the 60-something JJ editor Sinclair Traill thought Shorter's latest album one for young people with strong ear drums and little sensitivity to walls of sound
JJ 10/65: Blue Mitchell – The Thing To Do
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner said The Thing To Do - featuring the young Chick Corea - would suit those with a 'partiality for honest, no-tricks jazz'
JJ 10/65: In My Opinion – Alton Purnell
Sixty years ago the veteran New Orleans pianist was full of praise for Louis Armstrong but acknowledged too that the English had got quite a bit of that NO feeling
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