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JJ 08/84: The Victor Feldman Trio – To Chopin With Love
Forty years ago Ray Spencer warned weak-hearted listeners off Feldman, Patitucci & Feldman's heavy-handed readings of the ineffable Frédéric
JJ 08/84: Benny Golson Quintet – One More Mem’ry
Forty years ago Victor Schonfield felt Golson's themes were still dull but that the instrumental anonymity of the 1950s had been overcome
JJ 08/74: Dollar Brand – African Sketchbook
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner found the SA pianist not particularly melodic and sometimes tedious but at his best a captivating individualist
JJ 08/74: Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner didn't enjoy the multi-reedman's circus act, wondering why the hell he didn't make a straight tenor album
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JJ 08/74: Jan Garbarek – Witchi-Tai-To & Red Lanta
Fifty years ago Roger Dean was sorely disappointed by two releases from the Norwegian saxophonist who became a touchstone for Nordic cool
JJ 08/64: Cleo Laine – Shakespeare And All That Jazz
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles loved the idea, writing and playing, especially of Ken Wheeler, and saw oft-derided British jazz vindicated
JJ 08/64: Various – Jazz Britannia Vol. 2
Sixty years ago Gina Wright lamented the poor musical quality and commercial agenda evident in this collection of British trad jazz
JJ 08/64: Cyril Davies And His Rhythm And Blues All Stars – The Sound Of Cyril Davies
Sixty years ago Gina Wright thought this EP, not representing Davies' best blues harp work, was aimed more at the pop than jazz market
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JJ 08/64: In My Opinion – Johnny Hodges
Sixty years ago the Ellington alto man loved Bechet and Armstrong and thought Freddie Hubbard a trad-modern middle man
Jazz in De-Lovely Dorking
At the Watermill jazz club, Graham Thomas saw the Joe Farnsworth & Sarah Hanahan Quartet and Anaïs Reno with the Pete Malinverni Trio
JJ 07/94: Andy Sheppard – Rhythm Method & Delivery Suite
Thirty years ago Derek Ansell found that Sheppard's effective sax playing compensated for the rhythmic monotony of the material
JJ 07/94: Jessica Williams Trio – In The Pocket
Thirty years ago Pat Hawes marvelled at the ambitious playing of the former house pianist at San Francisco's Keystone Korner club
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