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Jazz Journal
Get Carter gets revived and rearranged
Pianist and singer Wendy Kirkland has completed a project with trombonist Dennis Rollins that recalls the Michael Caine film Get Carter and its music,...
Farewell, Pat Martino
News arrives via Joey DeFrancesco courtesy of Tom Fletcher of the death of guitarist Pat Martino. His style is well framed in a YouTube...
JJ 10/91: John Scofield – Meant To Be
Although some have noticed a greater degree of formal restraint in Scofield's latest music, Meant To Be is essentially a sequel to 1989's Time...
JJ 10/91: Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow – The Life Of A Trio: Saturday & The Life Of A Trio: Sunday
Like a fool, I left it too late to get tickets for this trio's appearance at The Jazz Café earlier this year. If these...
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JJ 10/91: Meredith D’Ambrosio – Love Is Not A Game
A New York nightclub entertainer, Miss D'Ambrosio has several dozen albums out, some of which have been reviewed in JJI, but this is the...
JJ 10/81: Woody Shaw Quintet at Ronnie Scott’s
I went in excited anticipation of Dexter Gordon's last night at the club, only to be told that Big Dex was in Italy, playing...
JJ 10/81: Walking The Line – Actual ’81
With a festival devoted entirely to freely improvised music there is a tendency to regard the musicians, their music and the form itself in...
JJ 10/81: Improvisation – Its Nature And Practice In Music
Guitarist Derek Bailey, a pivotal figure in free improvisation, based this book on radio interviews with leading exponents from various musics employing improvisation. By...
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JJ 10/71: Clark Terry At Ronnie Scott’s
I have always found Ronnie Scott's the most convivial surroundings in which to enjoy jazz. Even on the rare occasions that a mediocre artist...
JJ 10/71: Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett
Gary Burton here finds himself in very energetic company indeed and his playing is certainly none the worse for that. Jarrett exudes power on...
JJ 10/61: Eddie ‘Lockjaw Davis – Jaws In Orbit
Surely no other art form embraces so many functions as jazz. Among current releases, one can find jazz to listen to, jazz to dance...
JJ 10/61: In My Opinion – Memphis Slim
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians, who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
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