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Jazz Journal
JJ 03/86: Chick Corea – Septet
Forty years ago, Richard Palmer enjoyed Corea's lyrical sub-classical writing while finding it derivative and well removed from jazz
JJ 03/86: Herbie Hancock – Speak Like A Child
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert thought Hancock's latest - conjuring an atmosphere of peace and liberation, if not naiveté - measured up well to its title
Pablo Held Trio & Chris Potter at the Blue Note, Poznań
The concert by the Pablo Held Trio featuring Chris Potter at Poznań’s Blue Note – housed in the former boiler room of the Imperial...
JJ 03/76: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – Eleven Plus Live At LWT
Fifty years ago, Alun Morgan marvelled at the power, accuracy and solo power (take a bow, Phil Todd) of an 'astonishingly good' big band then in receipt of no public funding
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JJ 03/76: Dick Wellstood at the Seven Dials
Fifty years ago Miles Kington hailed a proponent of a piano style that 'probably led to the finest flowering of solo improvising since Beethoven'
JJ 03/76: Amalgam – Innovation
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae enjoyed John Stevens playing around the beat and Trevor Watts ranging from blistering scalar flurries to gentle thematic variations
JJ 03/66: Ravi Shankar – Portrait Of A Genius
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner acknowledged the raga's stylistic connection with jazz but concurred with Gerald Lascelles that its monotony was hard to overcome
JJ 03/66: Roland Kirk – Rip, Rig And Panic
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce liked the vitality and creativity of Kirk's straightforward numbers but not the tape and computer gimmickry used elsewhere
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JJ 03/66: The New Wave In Jazz
Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield tolerated Coltrane, Grachan Moncur and Bobby Hutcherson as they'd proved themselves on changes but baulked at Ayler and Shepp
JJ 03/66: In My Opinion – Earl Hines
Sixty years ago, as he checked out Jay McShann, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum and others, the swing-piano master pondered on modern jazz and feeling and took issue with music-biz labelling
New releases February-March 2026, W-Z
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in January-February 2026, including Mal Waldron, Emmanuel Wilkins, Buster Williams, Steve Wilson and Alex Wintz // Editor's pick: Buster Williams
New releases February-March 2026, T-V
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in January-February 2026, including Taupe, Henri Texier, Mark Turner, McCoy Tyner and Various: Cuba Cha Cha Chá // Editor's pick: Taupe
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