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Arv Garrison: wizard of the six string / 2
Arv's last recordings in 1948 were for the Metro label. The label was short-lived, and distribution was limited for the two 78 singles that...
Arv Garrison: wizard of the six string / 1
If you mention Arv Garrison's name to a guitarist you will most likely receive a nod and a knowing smile. Garrison is well known...
Anthony Wood, free-jazz flame
The whirlwind that was Anthony Wood came spinning into my world in 1980, when I worked on Musicians Only magazine. In an interview, eminent...
JJ 09/91: Brian Rust’s My Kind Of Jazz, reviewed
Because Brian Rust's Jazz Records 1897-1942 is such a useful work I approached this book in a mood of premeditated forgiveness, anticipating what it...
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JJ 09/91: Don Cherry interviewed while playing the Jazz Café
'As a child - before 1950 when I first got a trumpet - I had taken some piano lessons and I remember when my...
JJ 09/81: North Sea jazz festival 1981 report
The essential thing is not to panic. What you do is find a nice quiet corner - there is one somewhere in the building,...
JJ 09/81: Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Often proclaimed a major new figure, Pat Metheny shows himself on this outing to be, if anything, a gentle giant of jazz - which...
JJ 09/71: Dizzy Gillespie – Souled Out
Alas, there is more than a grain of truth in the album title. Gillespie is still one of the half dozen greatest living trumpeters...
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JJ 09/71: ECM music, reviewed by Barry McRae
With the present dearth of jazz issues it is very refreshing to find a new label devoted to contemporary jazz or music closely related...
JJ 09/61: John Coltrane – Coltrane Jazz & Blue Train
There can be few more intense tenor players in jazz today than John Coltrane, and he transmits that intensity to his audience in a...
JJ 09/61: In My Opinion – George Wein
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 08/91: Tommy Smith – Standards
The old Blue Note company had a well deserved reputation for seeking out the finest of the new, young instrumentalists. Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley...
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