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Jazz Journal
JJ 06/95: Nicholas Payton – From This Moment
Being so pervasive, imitation today hardly registers as such, but 30 years ago Derek Ansell could quite plausibly refer to Payton as a highly skilled but derivative player
JJ 06/85: David Torn, Geoffrey Gordon – Best Laid Plans
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert noted the variety of mood - ranging from the eerily impressionistic to the pugilistic and atonal - produced by Torn and Gordon's guitar and percussion setup
JJ 06/85: Cedar Walton at Ronnie Scott’s club, London
Forty years ago, Mike Hennessey marvelled at pianist Walton's flair for writing compelling hooks and pursuing neat little phrases through the changes
JJ 06/85: Pat Metheny at Hammersmith Odeon, London
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert enjoyed a passage of downhome bluesy swing in a set that otherwise often suggested film scoring might be Metheny and Lyle Mays' true vocation
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JJ 06/75: Eleven Improvisors, Wigmore Hall, London
Fifty years ago, seeing Steve Beresford, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, John Russell et al in concert, Peter Riley gave a rather lucid exposition of the nature, function and challenges - for player and listener - of free improvisation
JJ 06/75: Donald Byrd – Stepping Into Tomorrow
Fifty years ago, Mark Gardner heard in trumpeter Byrd's incorporation of funk and rock not the advent of a new jazz suggested by the title but a shallow pursuit of fashion
JJ 06/75: George Duke – Feel
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae dismissed one of the masters of modern jazz keyboard and arrangement in very few words, declining to hear in his latest record more than high-quality disco music
JJ 06/65: Friedrich Gulda – From Vienna With Jazz
Sixty years ago, Gerald Lascelles regretted that Gulda's treatment of great operas was issued under the guise of jazz, despite the presence of such as Mel Lewis, Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar and Tubby Hayes
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JJ 06/65: Michael Garrick – October Woman
Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner was relieved to find no poetry in Garrick's latest excursion but still was troubled by Coleridge Goode's bowing and humming and Shake Keane and Joe Harriot's free forming
Jazz nad Odrą 2025, Wrocław, Poland
Wrocław breathed jazz for five days
Wrocław, 23–27 April 2025: Jazz nad Odrą – the oldest jazz festival in Poland – has been continuously attracting...
JJ 06/65: Teo Macero – a conversation with Sinclair Traill
Sixty years ago, the renowned producer spoke of Kenton's bad composing, Duke's great composing, his fury at uninformed liner notes, the dreariness of jazz as art music and Brubeck's genuine creativity
Joan Fort Trio featuring Vincent Herring in Dorking
The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and...
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