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Jazz Journal
JJ 09/95: North Sea Jazz Festival, reviewed
Thirty years ago Stan Woolley and Willem Hoos gave insights into the Hague's jazz festival, still catching the tail-end of modern mainstream, with performers including Oscar Peterson, Johnny Griffin and Joe Henderson
JJ 09/85: Working Week – Working Nights
Forty years ago Simon Adams hailed one of the more substantial spinoffs from the much vaunted but elusive 1980s British jazz revival
JJ 09/85: Charles Lloyd Quartet – A Night In Copenhagen
Forty years ago Michael Tucker found saxophonist Lloyd still in the hippie 1960s groove but pointed out the level and breadth of much of his work
JJ 09/85: Bill Frisell – Rambler
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert said that although Frisell's playing could sound elemental and closer to Wout Steenhuis's Hawaiian musings than jazz, it would be a mistake to dismiss it
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JJ 09/85: Miles – time after time
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert considered Miles Davis, musician and leader, and offered a perspective on his latest work, from Man With The Horn (1981) to You're Under Arrest (1985)
JJ 09/85: The Bass Clef, first anniversary
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert gave an update on Peter Ind's new jazz club in the incipiently hip East London, its attractions including Ronnie Ross, Harry Beckett and Gordon Beck
JJ 09/75: Mickey Baker – Take A Look Inside
Fifty years ago Derrick Stewart-Baxter thanked Jim Simpson for presenting guitarist Baker as Baker had always wanted - playing the real blues and blues that, when modern, avoided banality
JJ 09/75: Dave Brubeck – The Art Of Dave Brubeck
Fifty years ago Roger Dean was pleased to rediscover Brubeck's polytonal work, even if it was a pale shadow of that of his mentor Darius Milhaud
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JJ 09/75: Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Mike Gibbs, Stan Tracey – Will Power
Fifty years ago Barry McRae applauded some music featuring Norma Winstone and John Taylor - maybe not all-out jazz - written to mark Shakespeare's tercentenary
JJ 09/65: The Moody Blues – The Magnificent Moodies
Sixty years ago, Gina Wright noted that while the Moody Blues weren't playing jazz or strictly even blues they represented the better type of R&B heard around the clubs of the time
JJ 09/65: Andrew Hill – Point Of Departure
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles thought that Hill's music often displayed 'that glorious confused unity which typifies the writings of Monk' and said it must be heard
New releases August-September 2025, S-Z
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in July-August 2025, including Pharoah Sanders, Horace Silver, John Taylor, Mark Turner and McCoy Tyner // Editor's pick: Horace Silver
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