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Jazz Journal

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, S

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Brandon Sanders, Woody Shaw, Gene Shelby, Wes Smith and Dave Stryker // Editor's pick: Dave Stryker

JJ 01/76: Lee Konitz At Ronnie Scott’s

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan saw saxophone original Konitz survive second billing to Blossom Dearie and sometimes unsuitable accompaniment

JJ 01/76: Tommy Whittle at The West End Club, Edinburgh

Fifty years ago Roger Craik saw saxophonist Whittle debunk the presumption that British jazzmen were good but not great

JJ 01/76: Jean-Luc Ponty – Sunday Walk

Fifty years ago Barry McRae reckoned Ponty suffered from being dubbed the Coltrane of the violin and was better off in a bebop setting, as here
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JJ 01/76: Donald Byrd – Black Byrd

Fifty years ago Mark Gardner saw a once reliable jazz player prostrate before the temptation of 'commercial trivia'

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, O-R

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Gary Peacock, Noah Peterson, Roy Powell, QOW Trio and Joel Ross // Editor's pick: Joel Ross

JJ 01/66: Dudley Moore – The Other Side Of Dudley Moore

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles was pleased to see Dudley Moore take time off from TV 'frivolity' to make his record debut as 'a gifted jazzman'

JJ 01/66: Michael Garrick – Promises & Anthem

Sixty years ago Michael Shera found two Garrick records 'a complete waste of time and money' aside from some good solos by Tony Coe and Joe Harriott
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JJ 01/66: Owning Up

Sixty years ago Steve Voce thought Owning Up was very funny but also a book that described a life of pointlessness and bleak horror

JJ 01/66: Johnny Hodges, interviewed by Henry Whiston

Sixty years ago the best-known Ellington altoist talked of his chief influence, of the East Coast scene of the 1920s, of cutting contests and of his favourite Duke tunes

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, M-N

Mabern, Harold: Afro Blue They say : Special 10th anniversary edition of a remastered, remixed Afro Blue album (2014) to be released on what would've been Harold...

New releases December 2025 – January 2026, I-L

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Javon Jackson, Maja Jaku, Ingrid Jensen, Julian Lage and Steve Lodder and // Editor's pick: Javon Jackson
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