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JJ 11/72: Stephane Grappelli & Gary Burton – Paris Encounter
Fifty years ago Art Napoleon liked how the vibist helped the one-time 'salon fiddler' enter the ether but bridled at Swallow's bass sound
JJ 11/72: Chick Corea – Return To Forever
Fifty years ago Ron Brown was thrilled by Corea's 'amazingly lovely compositions' and the 'awesomely inventive' Stan Clarke
JJ 11/72: Return To Forever at Ronnie Scott’s
Fifty years ago Ron Brown heard Corea debunk the nonsense that the Rhodes precludes individuality and loved Back Door's Colin Hodgkinson
JJ 11/72: Seamen/Tracey at The Plough, Stockwell
Fifty years ago Martin Davidson marvelled at the resurgent Phil Seamen - only weeks before the drummer suddenly died
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JJ 11/62: London Jazz Scene – The ’Forties
Sixty years ago Steve Voce found Decca's compilation stylistically disordered but with good jazz from Grappelly, Shearing, Randall and others
JJ 11/62: Miles Davis – At Carnegie Hall
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles thought that despite stodgy sounding chorded passages Davis and Evans were productive and provocative
JJ 11/62: In My Opinion – Junior Mance
Sixty years ago the Chicago pianist noted for dousing everything in the blues enjoyed Yancey, James P, Hines, Wilson, Tatum and Powell. First published in Jazz Journal November 1962
LJF 2022: Jan Garbarek Group
Christopher Walters heard shades of Weather Report and the Yellowjackets in a show that if it hinted at swan song had the intensity of youth
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The Rat Pack goes 90s
The German singer takes a sometimes ironic view of the Sinatra, Martin and Davis Jr canon, casting 1980s and 90s pop in 1960s LA style
JJ 10/92: Tony Williams – The Story Of Neptune
Thirty years ago, Richard Palmer was astonished to find the brainy, discerning and always swinging drummer covering Lennon & McCartney
JJ 10/92: Jazz Changes
Thirty years ago, Steve Voce reckoned Martin Williams' commentaries on jazz - from Earl Hines to Steve Swallow - were probably timeless
JJ 10/82: Grover Washington Junior – Winelight
Forty years ago, Melvin Lyons thought Grover's tasteful and passionate latest should settle any mainstream qualms about jazz fusion
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