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JJ 04/91: Jason Rebello – A Clearer View
Rebello is the latest young British jazz musician to be packaged for mass consumption and in this case there is considerable musical ability to...
JJ 04/91: Oregon – 45th Parallel
A new record label for Oregon, and overall, a slightly tougher feeling to the music than previously. As well as being a sensitive percussionist,...
JJ 04/91: Music Revelation Ensemble – Elec. Jazz
The MRE seems to be Ulmer's band. All the compositions here are his, and Ulmer followers will feel at home with the snapping backbeats...
JJ 04/91: David Murray – Spirituals
Many of the heads on this sister set to last year's Ballads provide just the kind of old world charm predicted by the title....
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JJ 04/91: Stephane Grappelli – Piano, My Other Love
In the sleeve notes Nat Hentoff says that to make a solo album 'a ceaselessly intriguing melodic and harmonic imagination as well as an...
JJ 04/91: Bill Evans Group – Let The Juice Loose
Where some of his fellow fusioneers have ventured along more esoteric avenues, Bill Evans has kept faith with the central values of the genre....
JJ 04/81: Tony Scott, Bebop Preservation Society at Pizza Express, London
Tony Scott's fourth appearance at the Pizza Express - he'd played there the previous three nights in the company of the Pizza Express All-Star...
JJ 04/81: Stephane Grappelli – From The Heart
In Paris in 1923, at the age of 15, Stephane Grappelli heard his first American jazz, and it so impressed him that he decided...
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JJ 04/81: Michael Naura & Wolfgang Schlüter – Country Children
Heads may roll at ECM when someone realises what's on this one. For perhaps the first and last time in its history, in Take...
JJ 04/71: Johnny Hodges – Three Shades Of Blue
Although not Johnny Hodges' last session this was the last record he made under his own name. It is greatly fortunate therefore that included...
JJ 04/71: Chick Corea – The Song Of Singing
Like the cover picture, the music tends to be surrealistic. Certainly it is inventive but it leans toward the glossy rather than the profound...
JJ 04/71: Ornette Coleman – Love Call
This LP presents the same personnel as did Ornette's 'New York Is Now' album, and was possibly recorded around the same time, i.e. sometime...
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