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Jazz Journal

JJ 04/85: Cedar Walton Quartet – Third Set

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert reviewed a relatively routine but effective set of hard bop featuring Bob Berg, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins

JJ 04/85: Royal Gala Concert at the London Palladium

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert reviewed a rather chaotic fundraiser for the doomed National Jazz Centre, featuring a.o., Nigel Kennedy, Alison Moyet, Helen Shapiro and Jools Holland

JJ 04/85: David Sanborn: Straight To The Heart

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert offered a brief resumé of the saxophonist's career followed by an interview conducted in Nice and in London in 1984

JJ 04/75: Eberhard Weber – The Colours Of Chloe

Fifty years ago Roger Dean heard little swing from the German bassist but some exquisite textures, telling solos and influence of Maurice Ravel
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JJ 04/75: Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson – Witchi-Tai-To

Fifty years ago Mike Shera thought Garbarek and Stenson's collection of pieces based on simple phrases or modes should be heard by those interested in that sort of thing

JJ 04/75: John Abercrombie – Timeless

Fifty years ago Barry McRae was tempted to say that the real stars of another ECM session were the engineers, so good was the sound quality and balance

JJ 04/75: Braff-Barnes Quartet At Ronnie Scott’s

Fifty years ago, Sinclair Traill relished the undiluted pleasure produced by the harmonisations and exchanges of cornetist Ruby Braff and guitarist George Barnes

JJ 04/65: Horace Silver – Song For My Father

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles welcomed the swinging elements of Silver's new album while worrying slightly about his dalliance with unconventional tempi and forms
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JJ 04/65: George Gruntz – Jazz Goes Baroque

Sixty years ago Mark Gardner acclaimed the Swiss pianist's adaptation of the baroque to jazz, reckoning the era's hipsters would have flipped their wigs in approval

JJ 04/65: Stan Getz – Getz Au Go Go

Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Getz's return to red-blooded jazz playing even if he was still burdened by the bloodless singing of Astrud Gilberto

JJ 04/65: Bill Evans – Dig It!

Sixty years ago Steve Voce noted that Evans' clinical and airless sound was a new one for jazz and one that had a vital effect on the musicians around him

JJ 03/95: Azimuth – Azimuth / Touchstone / Depart

Thirty years ago Richard Palmer hated 'all 140 cloying, airless, arch and self-congratulatory minutes' of ECM's Azimuth retrospective
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