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JJ 06/63: Dave Brubeck – Bossa Nova U.S.A.
Sixty years ago, Mike Shera thought the pianist's leap on to the bossa bandwagon had turned out fine, even swinging
JJ 06/63: Death Of A Music?
The idea that jazz is the new classical music wasn't born in the 1980s. It was posited 60 years ago in Henry Pleasants' prescient little book
JJ 06/63: Chuck Berry – Chuck Berry
Jazz or not, 60 years ago, Graham Boatfield welcomed an album from his favourite performer in Jazz On A Summer's Day
JJ 06/63: In My Opinion – Johnny Griffin
Sixty years ago, the saxophonist talked of Monk (dry), Blakey (disputatious), Don Byas (drunk), Clark Terry (definite) and others
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Kenny Barron: Lemuria-Seascape
Barron might be counted among such well-mannered pianists as Hank Jones but this 1991 set, here remastered, shows him to be more colourful
JJ 05/93: Dave O’Higgins – All Good Things
Thirty years ago, John Chadwick appreciated the musicality of the saxophonist's group while wishing for more standards and more variation
JJ 05/93: Jan Garbarek / Ustad Fateh Ali Khan – Ragas And Sagas
Thirty years ago, Michael Tucker welcomed a new foray into the fusion of jazz and the subcontinental perhaps first essayed by John Coltrane
JJ 05/83: Weather Report – Procession
Forty years ago, Weather Report's hood-down, motorway cruisin' sound failed to stimulate Barry McRae's grey matter
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JJ 05/83: Eberhard Weber – Later That Evening
Forty years ago, Rod McLoughlin found that, however remotely, the bassist's apparently uneventful compositions spoke in a jazz dialect
JJ 05/83: Bobby Wellins/Gil Evans at Camden
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert saw Bobby Wellins creative in the post-bop sphere and Gil Evans leading British soloists through some modes
JJ 05/73: Mike Westbrook – Live
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae thought the 'underground pop' on Westbrook's latest album made the disc difficult to review in a jazz magazine
JJ 05/73: Miles Davis – On The Corner
Fifty years ago, Ron Brown heard Miles Davis spit a nasty note or two into the rhythmic wodge and thought it was time to get off
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