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Jazz Journal
Luca Di Luzio: Never Give Up
The Italian guitarist plays mellifluous jazz-fusion with such well-known US exponents as Randy Brecker, George Whitty and Rodney Holmes
JJ 03/73: Phil Seamen – Phil Seamen Story
Fifty years ago, Martin Davidson hailed a rewarding tribute to the then-late drummer marred only by the ridiculous playing of Tony Coe
JJ 03/73: Michael Garrick – Home Stretch Blues
Fifty years ago, amidst much admirable playing, Art Napoleon saw Garrick succumb to the temptation embodied in the LP to be long-winded
JJ 03/63: Sister Rosetta Tharpe – The Gospel Truth
Sixty years ago Derrick Stewart-Baxter acclaimed Tharpe as one of the most exciting singers he had ever heard and a first-rank guitarist
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JJ 03/63: John Lee Hooker – The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker
Sixty years ago Derrick Stewart-Baxter saw the master bluesman enjoying a popularity that did not rely on commercialism
JJ 03/63: Eddie Harris – Mighty Like A Rose
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner considered the singular Chicagoan a superlative craftsman who would soon come up with an exciting album
JJ 03/63: John Coltrane – Plays The Blues
Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield thought Trane playing the blues might help rebuild an image squandered on 25 minutes of mediocrity in 1962
JJ 03/63: Joan Baez, Vol. 2
Graham Boatfield's 1963 Jazz Journal review of folk singer Joan Baez shows that 'jazz-related' is not a new concept
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JJ 03/63: Jymie Merritt – Jazz Messenger
Sixty-odd years ago, when the Jazz Messengers were in London, Peter Vacher interviewed the man who was possibly the first electric bass player in jazz
Charged Particles play Michael Brecker
Virtuoso US trio and guest saxophonist Tod Dickow did ample justice in east London to saxophone giant Michael Brecker
JJ 02/93: Steve Swallow – Home
Thirty years years ago Derek Ansell enjoyed Swallow's settings of Robert Creeley's poetry for a band including Sheila Jordan and Steve Kuhn
JJ 02/93: Desi Arnaz & Chico Marx – Big Bands Of Hollywood
Thirty years years ago Stan Woolley said that if Chico Marx hadn't returned to film in 1943 he could have challenged Goodman and the Dorseys
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