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Jazz Journal
Simon Spillett Big Band, Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking
Graham Thomas saw Simon Spillett's collection of Tubby Hayes big-band scores brought to life by a 17-piece orchestra
JJ 03/94: Eberhard Weber – Pendulum
Thirty years ago, Michael Tucker thought the German bassist's loopy, multi-tracked solo album an essential buy
JJ 03/94: The Jazz Guitar
Thirty years ago, before the web was awash with biography, Mark Gilbert welcomed the third edition of Summerfield's jazz-guitar encyclopaedia
JJ 03/84: Holdsworth, Young, Guy, Mathewson, Stevens – Retouch
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert enjoyed hearing virtuoso guitarist Holdsworth thriving in an open-ended, semi-free setting
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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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