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JJ 12/81: Carla Bley at Camden Jazz Week
Satire and ambiguity pervade both the musical and theatrical aspects of Carla Bley's work; her approach is about as straight as Lol Coxhill's soprano...
JJ 12/81: Otis Rush at Camden Jazz Week
Otis Rush at his best - as in several of his recordings and at least one concert that I have witnessed - is so...
JJ 12/71: Weather Report – Weather Report
With this album Joe Zawinul emerges as the man most responsible for Miles Davis' In A Silent Way album of a couple of years...
JJ 12/71: Isipingo at The Phoenix, London
Such are the changes that constantly occur in the personnel of Harry Miller's excellent little band that there can be no guarantee who will...
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JJ 12/71: Harry James and his orchestra in Birmingham
I was looking forward to hearing the James orchestra in a club setting but was unfortunately ill during their stay at Ronnie Scott's club;...
JJ 12/61: Art Farmer – Farmer’s Market
This sort of record is the reviewer's nightmare. The themes are attractive but slender. The structure is flimsy, consisting of track after track of...
JJ 12/61: Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy – Looking Ahead
Eric Dolphy is fast becoming a name to conjure with. He is a formidable musician with a strong sense of his own powers and...
JJ 12/61: Dick Morrissey – It’s Morrissey, Man
The most immediately striking thing about Dick Morrissey's tenor playing is its tremendous swing. It is no exaggeration to say that the music on...
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JJ 12/61: In My Opinion – George Lewis
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians, who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
JJ 12/61: Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger
Well, I like Bo Diddley. Even some of my friends regard my taste as appalling, but I am adamant - Bo is not only...
JJ 11/91: Cassandra Wilson – She Who Weeps
She Who Weeps merges elements from two earlier Wilson albums - the standards of Blue Skies and the asymmetric funk of Jumpworld. Her sour,...
JJ 11/91: Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Black Science
In his second album for BMG, M-Base chief Coleman again combines the sonorities of mainstream funk music with a polytonal harmonic conception which has...
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