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JJ 07/61: Jackie McLean talks to Valerie Wilmer
Today, years after his death, the shadow of Charlie Parker still hovers relentlessly above the head of almost every aspiring altoist. One who has...
JJ 07/61: Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound
Someone develops a new kind of fruit. It's, let's say, a cross between a banana and a grapefruit. Before people get the chance to...
JJ 06/91: Grant Green – The Complete Blue Note Recordings With Sonny Clark / Matador / Reaching Out
Grant Green never achieved the kind of profile enjoyed by such of his peers as Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell, but as this four-CD...
JJ 06/91: Miles Davis – Milestones
This well-known album opens with its weakest track on which the tempo seems a little too fast for Miles and he's reduced at one...
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JJ 06/81: Monty Alexander at Ronnie Scott’s, London
Monty Alexander's multi-faceted pianistic talent, his infectious enthusiasm, prodigious swing, extemporaneous humour and energetic resourcefulness ought to be enough to win over an audience...
JJ 06/81: Surman, Taylor, Marshall & Laurence at the 100 Club
This performance proved conclusively that Surman's recent preoccupation with synthesisers, complex overdubbing techniques and detailed composition has in no way impaired his talent for...
JJ 06/71: Big man, small amp
Mr McKinley Morganfield isn't exactly notorious for voluble statements to the press, but no one, surely, has ever mistaken his reticence for lack of...
JJ 06/71: Brotherhood at the Phoenix
If there's a more exciting band around than the Brotherhood of Breath, then I've yet to hear it. Certainly it's the finest big band...
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JJ 06/71: Third International Jazz Parade at Bergamo
The Third International Jazz Parade at Bergamo ran from March 19th to the 21st, and the large audiences at the Donizetti Theatre were given...
JJ 06/61: Oscar Peterson – The Jazz Soul Of Oscar Peterson
I was shocked by Peterson's interminable and dangerously boring performance at a recent London concert, where all the worst aspects of his steam-roller technique...
JJ 06/61: Bob Brookmeyer – The Blues Hot And Cold
I've always regarded Brookmeyer as a very "clinical" player - competent but cold, very polished, pleasant to listen to but without an ounce of...
JJ 06/61: Tal Farlow – Plays The Music Of Harold Arlen
There is a tendency today to undervalue Tal Farlow, which is regrettable, because there are not so many guitar players of worth around. He...
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