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Jazz Journal
New releases October-November 2025, O-R
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Keith Oxman, Nigel Price, Doug Raney, Emma Rawicz and Redtenbacher's Funkestra // Editor's pick: Keith Oxman
JJ 11/85: Peter King – 90% Of One Per Cent
Forty years ago, Richard Palmer thought his American cousins ought to be feeling a bit nervous in the face of 'just about the best alto player in the world'
JJ 11/85: Keith Jarrett Standards, Vol 2
Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought that although Jarrett's return to standards might suggest a retreat there was no diminution in his pianistic powers
JJ 11/85: Fred Hersch Trio: Horizons
Forty years ago, John Postgate thought Horizons, plagued by 'self-indulgent maunderings', would have been quite a jazz record if it had been half the length
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JJ 11/75: Warne Marsh – Jazz From The East Village
Fifty years ago, Mark Gardner thanked Peter Ind for capturing 'the astonishing, agile extemporisations' of Warne Marsh at a time when soul-jazz dominated
JJ 11/75: Alice Coltrane – Lord Of Lords
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae admired Coltrane's elegant writing but found no jazz in music with a dated style and fussy, romantic piano and harp work
JJ 11/75: George Duke – The Aura Will Prevail
Fifty years ago, Roger Dean approved of the tonal variety and of the Frank Zappa cover in Duke's 'crude pop' record but didn't hear enough improvisation
New releases October-November 2025, L-N
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Yusef Lateef, Gareth Lockrane, Ashley Maher, Russ Macklem and Christian McBride // Editor's pick: Gareth Lockrane
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JJ 11/65: Aretha Franklin – Yeah!!!
Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill acclaimed Franklin's big, strong, gospel-driven voice and sensed the advent of another major jazz singer
JJ 11/65: Roland Kirk – I Talk With The Spirits
Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, recovering from his Ayler baptism, enjoyed hearing Kirk playing, singing, laughing and shouting through some 'most acceptable modern jazz'
JJ 11/65: Bill Le Sage & The Directions In Jazz Unit – The Road To Ellingtonia
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner thought Bill Le Sage's Directions In Jazz would come to be seen as 'the most invigorating and successful mating of a string section with jazz soloists'
JJ 11/65: Bob James Trio – Explosions
Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill heard the future smooth-jazz pianist doing the avant thing and offending 'both the ears and the senses'
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