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Jazz Journal
JJ 04/92: Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness & Saxophone Colossus
This is the kind of value that many CD consumers have long agitated for - the coupling of two closely related LPs on one...
JJ 04/92: A Jazz Retrospect
Not before time, this is a paperback reprint of the valuable collection of essays by Max Harrison, first published by David & Charles in...
JJ 04/82: Oscar Alemán – swing guitarist /1
"Alemán is so grand that if anyone ever mentions Django Reinhardt to me again I shall stare coldly." This threat, made by 'Rophone' in...
JJ 04/82: Al Cohn at University College School, Hampstead
The honest glasses and sober dress suggest a visiting minor academic rather than a distinguished jazz soloist. No matter, for Al Cohn's reticent bandstand...
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JJ 04/82: André Previn – Pal Joey
I'll bet that when he made these, Mr Previn didn't imagine he'd wind up advertising television sets in London! One remembers him as a...
JJ 04/72: Rahsaan At Ronnie’s
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is a musician who is beyond classification and one whom I would personally love to see as a featured soloist in...
JJ 04/72: Miles Davis – Live/Evil
Miles Davis is one of the giants of twentieth century music; there have been few musicians in jazz who've been able to hit on...
JJ 04/72: Lee Morgan (1938-1972)
Lee Morgan, one of the brighter trumpet lights of the 1950s, became yet another victim of the violent times in which we live when...
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JJ 04/62: In My Opinion – Eddie Locke
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians, who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
JJ 04/62: The Montgomery Brothers – Groove Yard
There is no doubt that Wes Montgomery is an astounding guitarist. His technique is enormous and without the use of a pick he is...
JJ 03/92: The Virgin Directory Of World Music, The Billboard Book Of Brazilian Music, Africa O-Ye!
'World Music' was a phrase coined by music business executives in 1987 to help record shops sell non-Western vernacular music, and these three publications...
JJ 03/92: Bill Bruford’s Earthworks – All Heaven Broke Loose
This is an electric band, in the literal sense. Bruford himself plays electronic and chordal drums. Now, if like me, that means little or...
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