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Jazz Journal
JJ 02/64: Dick Morrissey – Have You Heard!
Sixty years ago Mike Shera regretted that British jazz records sold so badly, blaming not poor quality but postcode prejudice
JJ 02/64: Herbie Hancock – My Point Of View
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles suspected that too much listening and perhaps an excess of writing had made Hancock slightly broody
JJ 02/64: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner was relieved to hear Coltrane relaxing into rhapsody though reckoned an uptempo would have helped
JJ 02/64: In My Opinion – Roland Kirk
Sixty years ago Kirk gave articulate commentary on jazz, including the heretical opinion that Ronnie Scott was better than Tubby Hayes
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My friend, Steve Voce
Steve Voce could be provocative but for Digby Fairweather he will always be 'the big-faced, ever-smiling man who was a regular friend'
JJ 01/94: Jaco Pastorius – Holiday For Pans / Live In Italy / Heavy’n Jazz
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert found the bassist's early 80s blueprint for Word Of Mouth unfocused, but dug his Italy gigs with Lagrene
JJ 01/94: Guy Barker – Isn’t It?
Thirty years ago, Mike Shera enjoyed Barker's duo and quartet tracks but found the rest too fast and furious to allow soloists to settle
JJ 01/94: Miles Davis – In Montreux / Miles Davis & Quincy Jones – Live At Montreux
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert saw the trumpeter still edging forward with Holzmann et al while dropping back with Quincy
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JJ 01/94: Carla Bley/Steve Swallow – Go Together
Thirty years ago, Michael Tucker longed for some OP-style swinging exuberance to offset the supper-club blandness of Bley's writing
JJ 01/84: John Surman – Such Winters Of Memory
Forty years ago, Simon Adams was impressed by Surman's ability to bring ideas and memories to life in sound
JJ 01/84: Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol 1
Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought the beginning of the pianist's long immersion in the American songbook not entirely convincing
JJ 01/74: Ian Carr’s Nucleus – Labyrinth
Fifty years ago, in the face of compositional poverty and pretension, Charles Le Vay consoled himself with some fine solo work
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