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JJ 04/76: Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh At Middleton Hall, Hull

Fifty years ago, Michael Shera marvelled at seeing Warne Marsh - 'the greatest tenor saxophonist active in jazz at present' - appearing, improbably, in Hull

JJ 04/66: Eddie Harris – The In Sound

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, declaring himself resolutely out with the Out Sound, couldn't square Harris's immaculate tone and technique with the way he deployed them

JJ 04/66: Paul Desmond – Glad To Be Unhappy

Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner was glad to find that while the jazz scene in general lacked good taste and sincerity, those qualities were abundant in the work of Paul Desmond and Jim Hall

JJ 04/66: Freddie Hubbard – The Night Of The Cookers – Vol. One

Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner enjoyed the sparks flying when two creative, virtuoso bebop trumpeters - Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan - locked horns
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Mike Westbrook dies

The death is reported of pianist, composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook, aged 90. His manager, Peter Conway, today issued the following notice. Mike Westbrook OBE,...

JJ 03/96: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert plumbed the familial and musical origins of one of the leading individualists of the modern period

JJ 03/96: Paula Gardiner – Tales Of Inclination

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed a debut that wrought familiar material - including reminders of ECM, Metheny, Debussy and Grieg - into something fresh and individual

JJ 03/96: Jack Bruce – Monkjack

Thirty years ago, Simon Adams listened to a 'a set of atmospheric, occasionally portentous songs that promise much and sometimes deliver it'
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JJ 03/86: Tito Puente And His Latin Ensemble – Mambo Diablo

Hace 40 años, Simon Adams estaba de acuerdo en que el diablo tiene todas las mejores melodías y felicitó a Puente por haber convertido Take Five en una canción agradable

JJ 03/86: Chick Corea – Septet

Forty years ago, Richard Palmer enjoyed Corea's lyrical sub-classical writing while finding it derivative and well removed from jazz

JJ 03/86: Herbie Hancock – Speak Like A Child

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert thought Hancock's latest - conjuring an atmosphere of peace and liberation, if not naiveté - measured up well to its title

Pablo Held Trio & Chris Potter at the Blue Note, Poznań

The concert by the Pablo Held Trio featuring Chris Potter at Poznań’s Blue Note – housed in the former boiler room of the Imperial...
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