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Jazz Journal
JJ 04/65: Horace Silver – Song For My Father
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles welcomed the swinging elements of Silver's new album while worrying slightly about his dalliance with unconventional tempi and forms
JJ 04/65: George Gruntz – Jazz Goes Baroque
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner acclaimed the Swiss pianist's adaptation of the baroque to jazz, reckoning the era's hipsters would have flipped their wigs in approval
JJ 04/65: Stan Getz – Getz Au Go Go
Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Getz's return to red-blooded jazz playing even if he was still burdened by the bloodless singing of Astrud Gilberto
JJ 04/65: Bill Evans – Dig It!
Sixty years ago Steve Voce noted that Evans' clinical and airless sound was a new one for jazz and one that had a vital effect on the musicians around him
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JJ 03/95: Azimuth – Azimuth / Touchstone / Depart
Thirty years ago Richard Palmer hated 'all 140 cloying, airless, arch and self-congratulatory minutes' of ECM's Azimuth retrospective
JJ 03/95: Dave O’Higgins – Beats Working For A Living
Thirty years ago, on the evidence of O'Higgins' NYC set with Calderazzo, Genus, Locke and Nussbaum, Stan Woolley thought the young saxophonist deserved to rise to the top
JJ 03/95: Clark Tracey – Full Speed Sideways
Thirty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed a record from some outstanding London players who weren't fashionable figures with major label contracts
JJ 03/85: Tito Puente – El Rey
Forty years ago Stan Woolley delighted in what he thought was the best yet of the jazz-inclined timbalero's Concord albums
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JJ 03/85: Coleman Hawkins
Forty years ago Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone
JJ 03/85: Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music at Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Forty years ago Simon Adams saw Moiré Music avoid the pitfall of over-arrangement with fine solos from such as Simon Picard, Lol Coxhill and leader Trevor Watts
JJ 03/85: Ujamaa / John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia / Abdullah Ibrahim
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw siblinghood variously endorsed and questioned at a concert to mark Greater London Council's Jobs Year
JJ 03/75: Norma Winstone on Jazz Club, 19.1.75
Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan said that while Winstone wasn't an innovator, her tonal versatility, technique, control, emotional involvement and sheer stylishness meant she performed at the highest level
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