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JJ 08/83: Betty Carter – Whatever Happened To Love?
Forty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter praised Carter's ability to transform trite pop songs into minor masterpieces
JJ 08/73: Soft Machine – Six
Fifty years ago, Charles Le Vay reviewed the English fusioneers who were 'disowned by jazzers and rocksters alike'
JJ 08/73: Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire
Fifty years ago, Charles Le Vay reckoned that with Birds Of Fire McLaughlin captured his spiritual being in music as never before
JJ 08/73: Chick Corea & Gary Burton – Crystal Silence
Fifty years ago, Charles Le Vay found the well-known piano and vibes duet a disappointing bed-time album of little depth
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JJ 08/63: Roland Kirk – We Free Kings
Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill said disregard any thought of gimmickry and observed that 'the jazz simply pours out of this man'
JJ 08/63: Freddie Hubbard: The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard
Sixty years ago, Jeremy French, hearing John Gilmore, thought there might be some advantage in the new 'freak-blowing saxophone technique'
JJ 08/63: Tubby Hayes – Return Visit!
Sixty years ago, the British tenorist proved himself amongst leading Americans, one of whom had thought he was a rock ’n' roll singer
JJ 08/63: In My Opinion – Denis Preston
Sixty years ago, Denis Preston was lukewarm about Ellington and Basie and scathing about Oscar Peterson but thought Eddie Jefferson wonderful
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JJ 08/63: Charles Mingus – a critical view of his music
Sixty years ago, A. J. Bishop regarded the metropolitan embrace of folk music manifest in Mingus's work as reactionary and pretentious
Battle Jazz Festival, 22-23 July 2023
Brian O'Connor witnessed 10 gigs over two days at an East Sussex festival totally devoted to jazz, with no "side" ventures
JJ 07/93: Ray Anderson – Every One Of Us
Thirty years ago Graham Colombé acknowledged the trombonist's avant affiliations but found him exploring the plunger mute tradition
JJ 07/93: The Jazz Book
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed an update of Berendt's forensic 1953 original and the continued emphasis on description over opinion
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