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Jazz Journal
JJ 07/84: Jaco Pastorius – Invitation
Forty years ago Simon Adams heard intelligence without cliché in Pastorius's solos, but found his big-band arrangements surprisingly routine
JJ 07/84: Carla Bley – Heavy Heart
Forty years ago Simon Adams was disappointed by a fusion-style set from Bley featuring Steve Slagle, Hiram Bullock and Kenny Kirkland
07/74: George Barnes 2nd Quartet – Swing, Guitars
Fifty years ago Sinclair Traill hailed a swinging set featuring Dick Hyman and Hank Jones that would apparently disappoint no one
JJ 07/74: Dollar Brand – Ancient Africa & African Space Program
Fifty years ago Mike Shera was impressed by the recording quality of one of two albums by the South African pianist, but that was about it
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JJ 07/64: Sheila Jordan – Portrait Of Sheila
Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Jordan's vocals as a spectacular relief from Blue Note's bloody-minded tenorists and noisy organ-players
JJ 07/64: The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Sixty years ago, after seeing the Brubeck quartet live in England, someone, perhaps Sinclair Traill, reckoned his group didn't play jazz
JJ 07/64: Jimmy Witherspoon at Ronnie Scott’s
Sixty years ago, when US jazzmen seemed to be in every pub, Sinclair Traill saw Spoon's vivid big-city blues accompanied by the Scott quartet
JJ 07/64: Cannonball Adderley at Birmingham Town Hall
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner hated Charles Lloyd, loved Zawinul and Ranglin and saw the jazz boom end, despite Brian Epstein's involvement
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JJ 07/64: John Lee Hooker at The Flamingo
Sixty years ago Gina Wright braved the heat of the Wardour St club to see the shamanic bluesman backed by John Mayall's band
JJ 06/94: Hard Bop: Jazz And Black Music 1955-1965
Thirty years ago Mike Shera gave us a handy definition of hard bop as he welcomed a provocative and fairly comprehensive book on the subject
JJ 06/94: Jim Hall – Something Special
Thirty years ago Graham Colombé enjoyed hearing something other than the 'nebulous, meandering' Hall - as long as it lasted
JJ 06/84: Woody Shaw – Night Music
Forty years ago Brian Davis found Shaw's music 'a satisfying and natural progression from earlier and more rigid bop or post-bop forms'
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