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Jazz Journal
JJ 08/85: Wayne Shorter – JuJu
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw in Shorter's singular way with harmony and melody the seeds of modern jazz as represented a decade later by the mature Weather Report
JJ 08/85: Pat Metheny Group – The Falcon And The Snowman
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert thought Metheny and Mays' soundtrack for The Falcon And The Snowman was the inevitable corollary of the cinematic tone of the ECM label, for which they also recorded
JJ 08/75: Arild Andersen – Clouds In My Head
Fifty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed the bits - especially the bass and piano duet - that weren't blighted by stiff, vertical drumming
JJ 08/75: Billy Butterfield at the 100 Club
Fifty years ago Dig Fairweather was delighted by a 'lovely night of good and great jazz' where local talent was well-matched with the visiting American trumpeter
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JJ 08/75: The Bracknell Jazz Festival
Fifty years ago Barry McRae hoped the first Bracknell jazz festival would have a sequel in 1976. In the event, it became, over the next decade, a beacon for the newest and best in contemporary jazz
JJ 08/65: Don Rendell & Ian Carr – Shades Of Blue
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles commended 'a fine example of British jazz, matching and surpassing much of the stuff which is fobbed off on us from America'
JJ 08/65: Zoot Sims & Al Cohn at Ronnie Scott’s
Sixty years ago, Michael Shera acknowledged that the music of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims was outrageously unfashionable, being neither harsh nor ugly - but he left Ronnie's with trousers intact
JJ 08/65: Ernest Ranglin – Reflections
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill applauded Ernest Ranglin as an outstanding guitarist among a group of Caribbean musicians who were very advanced in their musical thinking
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JJ 08/65: In My Opinion – Ruby Braff
Sixty years ago Ruby Braff said 'No jazz instrumentalists can compete with even the lowest symphonic player ... in jazz every instrumentalist is a plumber compared with those guys'
Ruta Di at the Croydon Clocktower
Today we welcomed Ruta Di for her debut performance at Jazz at the Croydon Clocktower Café and were treated to nearly two hours of...
Siena Jazz International Academy opens admissions for 2025-2026
The Siena Jazz International Academy has announced the opening of admissions for its First and Second Level Academic Diploma courses for the academic year...
JJ 07/95: Perfect Houseplants – Clec
Thirty years ago, Simon Adams sensed only slight tremors from the Plants, but liked their mixture of the local and international
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