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Jazz Journal
JJ 03/84: Jimmy Witherspoon, London 100 Club
Forty years ago Barry McRae noted the jazz credentials of the man with a voice almost too musical to sing the blues
JJ 03/84: Steve Khan – Eyewitness
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed the guitarist's adoption of the Gibson 335, chorus pedal and new melodic directions
JJ 03/74: Gil Evans – Svengali
Fifty years ago Steve Voce reckoned Gil Evans, now replete with synth, was still out front, and still moving on. First published in Jazz Journal March 1974
JJ 03/74: Aretha Franklin – The First 12 Sides
Fifty years ago Barry McRae thought this queen of soul had more to do with jazz than some musicians considered as jazz specialists
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JJ 03/74: Musicians Cooperative Festival, London
Fifty years ago Barry McRae saw the leading avant-gardists Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Peter Brotzmann and Fred Van Hove
JJ 03/64: Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina – Polytones
Gumina is renowned for the Polytone guitar amp and 60 years ago Mark Gardner fell, perhaps inadvertently, on the source of the brand name
JJ 03/64: Mark Murphy – Rah
Sixty years ago Steve Voce heard the singular singer give a lesson to Sinatra, Dick Haymes and anyone you care to name
JJ 03/64: Dave Brubeck – Brandenburg Gate: Revisited
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner was pleased to hear Paul Desmond holding the line for jazz in a turgid third-stream effort
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JJ 03/64: In My Opinion – Eddie Taylor
Sixty years ago the drummer who came to notice with Dankworth before a surprise move to Lyttelton opined on Hamp, Herman, Monk and more
Sam Braysher Quartet at Spike’s Place in Beckenham
Graham Thomas heard the altoist's quartet on top form on standards including My Little Suede Shoes (with hand-drum solo) and One Note Samba
JJ 02/94: GRP All Star Big Band – Live!
Thirty years ago Richard Palmer reckoned he hadn't heard a big band swing so hard on such imaginative music since Thad Jones and Mel Lewis
JJ 02/94: Marian McPartland – In My Life
Thirty years ago Pat Hawes was delighted by the comprehensive brilliance of Chris Potter and by the leader's unsurpassed piano-playing
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