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Jazz Journal
JJ 01/83: Herb Ellis talks to Steve Voce
Forty years ago, guitarist Ellis told Steve Voce of a life in workaday guitar and lamented the modern focus on modes and scales
JJ 01/73: Chick Corea – Piano Improvisations Vol. 2
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae found in Corea brilliance alongside cocktail piano and painful theatricality
JJ 01/73: Synthesis
Fifty years ago, Ron Brown found bending over backwards to accommodate the accommodations of Cage and Krog made him ache in the wrong way
JJ 01/63: Bill Evans – Waltz For Debby
Sixty years ago The Honourable Gerald Lascelles saw Bill Evans as fulfilling John Lewis's promise, without the preciousness
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JJ 01/63: Tony Coe – Swingin’ Till The Girls Come Home
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles reckoned Coe's new album one of the most exciting LPs of British origin he had heard in a long time
JJ 01/63: Dave Brubeck – The Real Ambassadors
Sixty years ago editor Sinclair Traill thought the pianist's lofty adventure in jazz diplomacy musically a bit of a drag
JJ 01/63: Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated – R & B From The Marquee
Sixty years ago, for Derrick Stewart-Baxter, white British blues singers faced the incurable handicap of not being black and American
JJ 01/63: John Coltrane – “Live” At The Village Vanguard
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles thought the tenor on Chasin' might as well have been a Bangalore torpedo or the exhaust system of the B.R.M.
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JJ 01/63: In My Opinion – Larry Adler
Sixty years ago the mouth-organ virtuoso weighed some giants but reserved his greatest praise for the logical and 'deeply musical' Bill Evans
JJ 01/63: Thoughts on composing – Duke Ellington
Sixty years ago Duke Ellington gave JJ some ideas on composition, more metaphysical and horticultural than musical
JJ 12/92: Keith Jarrett – Expectations + The Cure
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert saw 90s Jarrett maintain the creativity of his early years - except for 10 minutes of modal noodling
JJ 12/92: The Brecker Brothers – Collection, Volume Two + Return Of The Brecker Brothers
Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert thought not even the brothers themselves could surpass the epoch-making discoveries of their early work
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