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JJ 02/66: The Quartette Très Bien – Stepping Out
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the African-influenced music of US trio Quartette Très Bien had such abandon that he couldn't believe it was all arranged
JJ 02/66: Bobby Wellins – The New Departures Quartet
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner was pleased to find somebody else - Bobby Wellins of the 'stove-pipe' sound - who sounded like they had been listening to Warne Marsh
Simon Spillett Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s
It took a while – six years almost to the day – for Simon Spillett’s Big Band to make it from the humble setting...
52nd International Jazz Piano Festival, Kalisz, Poland
The 52nd International Jazz Piano Festival in Kalisz, Poland (20-23 November 2025) was the first edition prepared by Krzysztof Herdzin, who assumed the role...
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JJ 01/96: Jazz – The Rough Guide
Thirty years ago Alun Morgan was very pleased with the revised edition of Carr, Fairweather and Priestley's not-so-rough guide to jazz
JJ 01/96: Wayne Shorter – High Life
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical mastery of his early 60s Blue Notes
JJ 01/96: Steve Grossman, interviewed by Mark Gilbert
Thirty years ago the NY tenor man, peer to Berg, Brecker, Mintzer et al, talked about his journey through Miles Davis, Elvin Jones and Stone Alliance and back to bebop
JJ 01/86: Joe Henderson – Mode For Joe
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard in Henderson's splitting, jiving and slipping of notes a still contemporary saxophone vocabulary.
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New releases December 2025 – January 2026, T-Y
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2025, including Clark Terry, Cal Tjader, Charles Tolliver, V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions and Miroslav Vitous // Editor's pick: V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions
JJ 01/86: Jan Garbarek Group – It’s OK To Listen To The Gray Voice
Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat catalogue of Jazz"'
JJ 01/86: Charlie Watts Big Band at London Ronnie Scott’s Club
Forty years ago Martin Isherwood saw the Rolling Stones drummer leading such luminaries of British jazz as Stan Tracey, Harry Beckett and Bobby Wellins
JJ 01/86: Sun Ra Arkestra at Brixton Fridge
Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation
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