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JJ 06/83: Miles Davis at Hammersmith Odeon
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert saw the Stern, Scofield, Evans lineup play a varied set in which the leader seemed to tune in to E.T.
JJ 06/83: Dave Green – Fingers Remember Mingus
Forty years ago, Chris Sheridan thought Dave Green's Mingus tribute with Bruce Turner and Lol Coxhill an uncommonly fine session
JJ 06/83: Dave Brubeck Quartet at the Barbican
Forty years ago, Richard Palmer found himself out of step with the rapturous reception afforded the pianist's London concert
JJ 06/73: Dollar Brand – This Is Dollar Brand / African Piano
Fifty years ago, Martin Davidson thought the pianist's range, while limited, was wide enough to produce one masterpiece
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JJ 06/73: Paul Bley Quintet – Barrage / Open, To Love
Fifty years ago, Martin Davidson heard the pianist in post-Ornette mode and wandering aimlessly through his composer-wives' tunes
JJ 06/73: Pop Music & The Blues
Fifty years ago, Ron Brown disagreed that teen-boom pop (e.g., Elvis) could be separated from older styles of popular music (e.g., Sinatra)
JJ 06/73: George Melly at the Torrington
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae couldn't resist joining the audience at the Torrington in stomping and chuckling at Melly's ribaldry
JJ 06/73: Mike Gibbs at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fifty years ago Gibbs' music led Charles Le Vay to imagine a fast motorway drive with a lovely lady waiting at the other end
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JJ 06/63: Dizzy Reece – Asia Minor
British trumpeter Reece moved to NYC in 1959 and four years later Steve Voce welcomed his date with Joe Farrell, Hank Jones, Ron Carter et al
JJ 06/63: Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Sixty years ago Jeremy French thought Monk a self-serving musical primitive who tried his audience's patience and got away with it
JJ 06/63: Jacques Loussier – Play Bach No. 2
Sixty years ago, Jeremy French reckoned it was better to play Bach-influenced jazz than to try to make old masters hip again
JJ 06/23: Don Ellis – New Ideas
Sixty years ago, Jeremy French complained that the atonality in Ellis's 'American rubbish' left the listener with no point of reference
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