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Jazz Journal
JJ 08/91: Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music Drum Orchestra – Live In Latin America Vol I
For this new line-up of Moiré Music, Trevor Watts has dispensed with the traditional jazz instrumentation of keyboards and tenor saxophone and augmented Nana...
JJ 08/91: Steve Smith & Vital Information – Vitalive!
Steve Smith's seven-year association with the heavy-rocking chart-topping Journey is easily discerned in this likeable Californian club date, but he also takes the opportunity...
JJ 08/91: Larry Coryell With John Scofield And Joe Beck – Tributaries
Flat-top guitar recitals were all the rage in the late seventies, no doubt in reaction to the wattage pumped out by electric fusion ensembles...
JJ 08/81: Miroslav Vitous Group
It may have taken more than a decade, but Vitous has at last produced a heavyweight recording, worthy of the talent that has always...
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JJ 08/81: David Liebman Quintet – If They Only Knew
Arrangements make this record work. Whereas too many jazz releases follow the old theme/solos formula, almost every track here provides continuing interest by blending...
JJ 08/81: Tete Montoliu Trio at Ronnie Scott’s
As Richard Williams has observed, Montoliu is a far more interesting pianist today than Oscar Peterson - harmonically more resourceful, more given to subtle...
JJ 08/71: British Jazzmen No. 10 – Jack Bruce
It is unlikely that many of the discussed in this series will find themselves the subject of a BBC television documentary film, though one...
JJ 08/71: Miles Davis – Jack Johnson
There are no details on the sleeve of this album, and the personnel above is a compound of near certainty, other people's guesses, and...
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JJ 08/61: In My Opinion – Tubby Hayes
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 08/61: Tubby Hayes – Tubbs
This new album by Hayes presents him in three settings: (a) on tenor, with a brass section, (b) with piccolo added, and (c) on...
JJ 08/61: Chris Barber – Chris Barber’s Blue Book
Several of our popular jazzmen have lately shown an interest in rhythm-and-blues. This is a welcome sign, and not without significance. For R&B, broadly...
JJ 08/61: Bill Evans – Portrait In Jazz
I am far more impressed by this record than I was by Bill Evans' first release, "Everyone Digs. . . .", about which I...
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