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Jazz Journal
JJ 07/75: Weather Report – Mysterious Traveller
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae found passages of introspection rather than swing redeemed a record beset with 'rock rhythms' and special 'effects'.
New releases June-July 2025, H-K
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Noah Haidu, Fred Hersch, John Lee Hooker, Keith Jarrett and Peter Johnstone // Editor's pick: Noah Haidu
JJ 07/65: John Coltrane – My Favourite Things
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner concluded that despite Coltrane's claim of divine inspiration on A Love Supreme he sounded a better improviser in 1960 than in 1965
JJ 07/65: Alexis Korner – Blues Incorporated
Sixty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter didn't allow that Britons could sing in the foreign tongue of Mississippi but loved Korner's blues-inspired instrumentals
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JJ 07/65: John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield seemed to approve of the saxophonist's take on jazz preaching, finding it 'at no point ugly as some of his work has been'
New releases June-July 2025, F-G
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Joe Farnsworth, Nick Finzer, Freedom Art Quartet, Danny Gatton, Roger Glenn and Jerry Goodman // Editor's pick: Roger Glenn
iG4 featuring Claire Martin, Nikki Iles, Karen Sharp and Ewan Hastie
There was a full house for this concert by iG4, which, Claire Martin explained, stood for "Inter-Generational 4’" owing to the presence of the...
New releases June-July 2025, C-D
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Candido, Colin Steele Quartet, Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Miles Davis and Eric Dolphy // Editor's pick: Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra
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New releases June-July 2025, A-B
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in May-June 2025, including Rez Abbasi, Afro Cuban All Stars, Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring, Tim Boniface and Rick Braun // Editor's pick: Rez Abbasi
JJ 07/65: In My Opinion – Ben Webster
Sixty years ago, the renowned saxophonist reflected on music from Fats Waller, Willie The Lion Smith, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Art Tatum and more
JJ 06/95: Findings – My Experience With The Soprano Saxophone
Thirty years ago, Lol Coxhill welcomed the first substantial writing on Steve Lacy's saxophone style and technique - done by the man himself
JJ 06/95: The Brecker Brothers
Thirty years ago, the brothers talked to Mark Gilbert about Horace Silver, their writing style, the genius of Coltrane and staying fit and teetotal
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