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Jazz Journal
JJ 07/85: Miles Davis – You’re Under Arrest
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert found that Miles Davis and band, improvising stoutly on contemporary pop tunes, had contradicted the leader's tenet that jazz was dead
JJ 07/85: Loose Tubes, Ronnie Scott’s, London
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was impressed by a reinvention of the big band that juxtaposed swing, funk, reggae, free playing and textural impressionism
JJ 07/75: Mike Westbrook – Citadel/Room 315
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae hailed the excellent soloists and exciting writing in a session that would help erase the memory of Solid Gold Cadillac
New releases June-July 2025, P-R
Paris, Pietro: Folk Traffic
They say : Folk Traffic is a musical ensemble exploring the intersection of improvisation and composition, blending formal structures with dynamic sonic dialogue....
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JJ 07/75: Norma Winstone, interviewed by Stan Woolley
Fifty years ago, the British singer talked of influences or lack of, the ignorance of jazz critics, the shrinking London jazz scene and the avant-garde/standards divide
New releases June-July 2025, L-O
Records offered to Jazz Journal for review in May-June 2025, including Lophae, Madre Vaca, Mark Masters & Billy Harper, Eric McPherson and Greg Murphy // Editor's pick: Mark Masters
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
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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
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
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