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Jazz Journal
JJ 08/63: Charles Mingus – a critical view of his music
Sixty years ago, A. J. Bishop regarded the metropolitan embrace of folk music manifest in Mingus's work as reactionary and pretentious
Battle Jazz Festival, 22-23 July 2023
Brian O'Connor witnessed 10 gigs over two days at an East Sussex festival totally devoted to jazz, with no "side" ventures
JJ 07/93: Ray Anderson – Every One Of Us
Thirty years ago Graham Colombé acknowledged the trombonist's avant affiliations but found him exploring the plunger mute tradition
JJ 07/93: The Jazz Book
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed an update of Berendt's forensic 1953 original and the continued emphasis on description over opinion
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JJ 07/83: John Scofield Trio – Out Like A Light
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert thought 1983 wouldn't produce a record to beat Out Like A Light's creative deconstruction
JJ 07/83: Bill Frisell – Inline
Forty years ago Barry McRae began to think he must be the odd man out in finding ECM's popular mood music so boring
JJ 07/83: Warne Marsh and Lou Levy in London
Forty years ago Barry McRae saw the elliptical bebopper Marsh in duo and quartet at Pizza Express's two London jazz venues of the day
JJ 07/73: Freddie Hubbard – Sky Dive
Fifty years ago Charles Le Vay thought the trumpeter's second Creed Taylor outing suggested schizophrenia rather than versatility
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JJ 07/73: Bird Lives!
Fifty years ago Ron Brown couldn't imagine a book that would better illuminate Charlie Parker than Ross Russell's compelling biography
JJ 07/63: William Russo – Russo In London
Sixty years ago Jeremy French thought Russo's tunes advanced but unpretentious, the British ensembles impeccable, the solos not quite so
JJ 07/63: In My Opinion – Gerry Mulligan
Sixty years ago, while reviewing various records (he didn't like Don Ellis), Mulligan described the Miles Davis nonet writing method
JJ 07/63: McCoy Tyner – Inception
Sixty years ago, Michael Shera hailed the pianist's leader debut for its creativity and avoidance of fashionable gospel-soul cliché
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