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JJ 08/70: Nucleus – Elastic Rock
In this day of broadening musical tastes, I am sure that there are many readers who enjoy both the creativity of jazz and the...
JJ 08/70: Salute To Satchmo, London 1970
On July 4th, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Melody Maker staged a tribute to Louis Armstrong for his seventieth birthday.
Alex Welsh and the...
JJ 08/60: George Russell – New York, N.Y.
This album has been hailed, in some quarters, as a milestone in jazz, a new conception of jazz presentation, and so on. It turns...
JJ 08/60: Sonny Rollins, analysed
Charlie Parker's innovations in many facets of jazz left the music with a degree of freedom it did not have before. The result of...
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JJ 08/60: In My Opinion – Joe Williams
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
JJ 08/60: Miles Davis: Walkin’
This record contains some of the finest modern jazz ever put on record. The period was a particularly good one for Miles Davis. Although...
JJ 07/90: Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
Given the rough ’n' ready quality of early sixties Motown recordings, it's a miracle that anyone should have been able...
JJ 07/90: John Scofield – Who’s Who / Time On My Hands
Thanks perhaps to its star-studded cast, Time On My Hands has excited considerable critical acclaim, but it's actually hard to...
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JJ 07/80: Stateside Scene East Coast
Art Pepper is back in the saddle again. After a protracted absence from the New York scene, the altoist brought...
JJ 07/80: Hammersmith Jazz Festival
Morrissey-Mullen Band / Holdsworth and Co / Paraphernalia
Starting with Morrissey and Mullen, the programme seemed destined to a warm response, and although I found...
JJ 07/70: Art Farmer talks to Fred Bouchard
'It seems to me to be far easier to play on a good melody than to blow a lot of these "non-tunes" based on...
JJ 07/70: Nucleus at The Phoenix
Ian Carr's Nucleus represents one of the better attempts to fuse jazz with the basic rhythm of rock. For this...
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