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Jazz Journal
JJ 05/73: Chick Corea And Return To Forever – Light As A Feather
Fifty years ago, Ron Brown found that that notwithstanding the maudlin lyrics, Corea's RTF made joyful music-making great again
JJ 05/63: The Jazz Crusaders – Lookin’ Ahead
Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield liked the JC's soul-tinged sound, a decade before they dropped jazz from their name and went the full funky
JJ 05/63: Shake Keane – Bossa Negra
Sixty years ago, Mike Shera welcomed this London bossa nova EP (lately priced at over £100) but wished there were more flugelhorn playing
JJ 05/63: In My Opinion – Ronnie Scott
Sixty years ago, the saxophonist and club boss liked Hodges but not Mulligan and remarked that jazz on record is always second best
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JJ 05/63: Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country & Western. Vol. 2
Sixty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter heard Charles trying to produce jazz and playing some good piano but losing against impossible odds
Barney Wilen: Un Témoin Dans La Ville
The French saxophonist, with Kenny Dorham, Duke Jordan, Paul Rovère and Kenny Clarke, produced a 12-track underscore for Molinaro's 1959 film
Review: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
The New Orleans jazz festival has moved on from George Wein's 1970 vision but the 52nd edition was still rich in local flavour - and crawfish
JJ 04/93: Tommy Smith – Paris
Thirty years ago Derek Ansell thought that in reproducing the Blue Note sound for the 90s Tommy Smith had got it together
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JJ 04/93: Elvin Jones – Jazz Machine Live In Japan / Youngblood
Thirty years ago Graham Colombé witnessed, in Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton and Javon Jackson, another manifestation of the new conservatism
JJ 04/83: John Stevens – Freebop
Forty years ago Barry McRae saw drummer Stevens' Freebop, here recorded at the 1982 Bracknell festival, as one of the finest groups in Europe
JJ 04/83: Peter Erskine – Peter Erskine
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert enjoyed the drummer's mix of bop, Latin and acoustic fusion, a stylistic departure from his Weather Report work
JJ 04/83: Sam Rivers at the 100 Club, London
Forty years ago Barry McRae saw the avant-garde saxophonist in the famous Oxford St basement, supported by the Howard Riley Quartet
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