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Jazz Journal

JJ 03/95: Dave O’Higgins – Beats Working For A Living

Thirty years ago, on the evidence of O'Higgins' NYC set with Calderazzo, Genus, Locke and Nussbaum, Stan Woolley thought the young saxophonist deserved to rise to the top

JJ 03/95: Clark Tracey – Full Speed Sideways

Thirty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed a record from some outstanding London players who weren't fashionable figures with major label contracts

JJ 03/85: Tito Puente – El Rey

Forty years ago Stan Woolley delighted in what he thought was the best yet of the jazz-inclined timbalero's Concord albums

JJ 03/85: Coleman Hawkins

Forty years ago Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone
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JJ 03/85: Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music at Bloomsbury Theatre, London

Forty years ago Simon Adams saw Moiré Music avoid the pitfall of over-arrangement with fine solos from such as Simon Picard, Lol Coxhill and leader Trevor Watts

JJ 03/85: Ujamaa / John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia / Abdullah Ibrahim

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw siblinghood variously endorsed and questioned at a concert to mark Greater London Council's Jobs Year

JJ 03/75: Norma Winstone on Jazz Club, 19.1.75

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan said that while Winstone wasn't an innovator, her tonal versatility, technique, control, emotional involvement and sheer stylishness meant she performed at the highest level

JJ 03/75: Stan Kenton at the Festival Hall

Fifty years ago Hugh Witt gave the Kenton band, featuring a young Peter Erskine, a qualified thumbs up, wishing there had been more than glimpses of what would happen if the band took off
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JJ 03/75: Michel Legrand at Hammersmith

Fifty years ago Robert Walton reviewed Legrand's first live London appearance, admired his ability to charm from the first moment and heard Phil Woods match Tubby Hayes in the magical saxophone stakes

JJ 03/75: Don Cherry – Eternal Rhythm

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found in Cherry's world music moments of riveting grandeur too often swamped in shapeless gouts of sound just as they seemed to be taking him somewhere he wanted to go

JJ 03/75: Larry Coryell – Spaces

Fifty years ago, listening to Coryell and McLaughlin (accompanied by Corea, Vitous and Cobham) Barry McRae reckoned McLaughlin the better player because of his ascetism

JJ 03/65: In My Opinion – Jimmy Woods

Sixty years ago Chico Hamilton's saxman reacted to Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style might be a straitjacket leading to an entirely unemotional way of playing
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