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Jazz Journal
JJ 05/80: Beyond the Mainstream – Avant Courier
Up You JackWhen a criticism begins "A revolutionary alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman plunged jazz down a blind alley some years ago when he...
JJ 05/80: Camden Festival Jazz Week – Eberhard Weber, Stinky Winkles, McCoy Tyner
Eberhard Weber's Colours/Stinky WinklesWeber's quartet fit all too easily into what has become known as the 'ECM sound'. The group create moody and impressionistic...
JJ 05/80: Buddy Rich Orchestra at the New Theatre, Oxford
Not knowing exactly what the title "orchestra" signifies, we take our seats with some excitement. Eyes settle on the stage: Hmm, five saxophones, three...
JJ 05/80: Egberto Gismonti – Solo
Egberto is a good guitarist, a fairly respectable pianist, is beautifully recorded in both roles, but produces not a note of jazz here. Though...
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JJ 05/80: Scott Hamilton-Warren Vaché – Skyscrapers
The so-called anachronistic Scott, having been maligned for his reincarnations, certainly does not warrant being further lumbered with dated arrangements. Buck Clayton and Nat...
JJ 05/80: Terje Rypdal – Descendre
This latest album represents no significant new departures from Rypdal's previous work; it being a collection of grand (and occasionally grandiose) tone poems of...
JJ 05/70: It Don’t Mean A Thing – Late Warne-ing
I suppose that characteristics like the voluptuous and beautiful qualities of Stan Getz's playing and the electrifying bustle of Coleman Hawkins shepherd the general...
JJ 05/70: Cleo Laine’s Spring Collection
It's been very difficult, in composing this review, to resist the temptation to type out a string of superlatives and leave it at that....
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JJ 05/60: Lightly & Politely
686 - CRUX CRITICORUM In the fifth (1960) "Down Beat Yearbook", under the novel heading "Quo Vadis?", there is a discussion by "three good...
JJ 05/60: Histoire Du Vrai Jazz
It is something of an undertaking to translate and assimilate in one breath, so to speak, the highly knowledgeable and well-informed criticisms and comments...
Bazzer’s bounty
As a writer for Jazz Journal for many years, Barry McRae built up a massive collection of vinyl and, later, CDs. Many were review...
Obituary: Ryo Kawasaki
Fusion stalwart, quantum physicist and guitar synthesizer pioneer who played with Gil Evans, Dave Liebman and many others
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