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Jazz Journal
JJ 10/62: In My Opinion – Don Rendell
Sixty years ago, the British saxman reviewed Freeman, Webster, Tate, Getz, Berry, Hawkins and his own primary influence, Lester Young
Obituary: Pharoah Sanders
Sam Feehan pays tribute to the late saxophonist, whose often ferocious and abrasive sound concealed deep spirituality and lyricism
JJ 09/92: James ‘Blood’ Ulmer: from the blues to harmolody and back again
JJ scribe Chris Sheridan once dismissed an Ulmer concert as representing a road-mender running amok. Simon Adams took a broader view
JJ 09/92: Orphy Robinson – When Tomorrow Comes
Thirty years ago, Barry McRae reviewed the vibist's Blue Note set including Roland Sutherland, Joe Bashorun and Winston Clifford
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JJ 09/82: ‘Duke’, a portrait & Duke Ellington Sacred Concert
Forty years ago Peter Vacher saw what should have been an elevated affair ruined by the demands of showbiz and TV technology
JJ 09/82: a jazz glossary
Forty years ago Barry McRae offered a helping hand to the jazz beginner. First published in Jazz Journal September 1982
JJ 09/82: Miles Davis – We Want Miles
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert hailed Miles Davis's rehabilitation of jazz-rock for the modern world. First published inJ September 1982
JJ 09/72: Joe Zawinul – Zawinul
Fifty years ago Steve Voce hailed the masterful manipulations of melody and sound by the Adderleys sideman now become 'a major jazz figure'
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JJ 09/72: Keith Jarrett – The Mourning Of A Star
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae thought Jarrett at his best in Ray Bryant mode but otherwise superficial and close to cocktail music
JJ 09/62: Buddy Tate – Tate-A-Tate
Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill loved this jumping swing session and saluted its reference to JJ's former Ladbroke Grove domicile
JJ 09/62: In My Opinion – Bob Scobey
Sixty years ago, the Dixieland trumpeter reckoned half these modern groups had lost the apple out of their lunch box
JJ 08/92: Jazz – the novel
Thirty years ago Richard Palmer liked Toni Morrison's rebuttal of the myth of Harlem even if the novel's form, as jazz solo, was abstruse
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