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JJ 03/91: Don Cherry – Multikulti
Don Cherry has always been an important figure in the avant garde, having worked with many of the most important musicians of the movement....
JJ 03/91; Michael Brecker – Now You See It. . . (Now You Don’t)
After producing two rather pallid sets for Impulse, the most influential tenorist of the 1980s has moved to the GRP label, and the results...
JJ 03/91: Keith Jarrett: The Man And His Music
Writing in the 1920s, and most likely aware of only the most diluted and commercial forms of jazz, Sufi Inayat Khan declared his belief...
JJ 03/91: Stan Kenton: The Man And His Music
For a major jazz figure, Stan Kenton has had very few biographies written about him. Ms Arganian's book, despite its title, is not a...
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JJ 03/81: Jack Of Clubs – DeJohnette drum clinic at Ronnie’s
A packed and highly enthusiastic house greeted Jack DeJohnette for a drum clinic at Ronnie Scott's late last year. It was part of a...
JJ 03/81: Richie Cole at Bull’s Head, London
Richie Cole is a natural clown. He milks every situation for its ridiculous possibilities, yet at the Bull's Head in Barnes he gave a...
JJ 03/81: Jack DeJohnette – New Directions In Europe
Like most exciting and challenging music, this album is one of contrasts and extremes. All the players are virtuosos; masters of expression, not afraid...
JJ 03/81: Weather Report – Night Passage
With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich...
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JJ 03/81: Sonny Stitt & Red Holloway – Just Friends
Stitt and Holloway have been playing together on and off since at least 1967, so it is particularly irritating that the sleeve quotes no...
JJ 03/81: Andrew Hill – Dance With Death
Hill's is a hard-edged but fascinating music, its densely-woven fabric depending less on lush melody than a complex interaction of sophisticated, spare harmonies and...
JJ 03/81: Kenny Wheeler – Around 6
On paper this has all the makings of quite a free jazz super-session. Let it be said at once that these players do nothing...
JJ 03/81: Amalgam & Plough at the 100 Club
This double billing of free music demonstrated both the best and worst aspects of the genre. Maybe it proved too much at one sitting...
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