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JJ 12/89: Brian Priestley – Love You Gladly
It's good that this fine band has at last made an album. Apart from an appearance on Sounds Of Jazz and far too few...
JJ 12/89: The Hoops McCann Band – Plays The Music Of Steely Dan
This isn't the first time the brilliant compositions of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have been covered by a strictly instrumental big band: Woody...
JJ 12/89: Miles Davis – Aura
Miles and a Big Band? Sketches of Denmark? An unreleased masterpiece designed to restore Miles' flagging reputation? Well, yes, no and not likely is...
JJ 12/79: Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Live
The detail that the S.M.E. Big Band bring to the simple march tune, Lets Sing For Him is remarkable. The voices and horns ebb...
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JJ 12/79: Oscar Peterson – The Paris Concert
Space precludes the kind of detailed run-down both these albums deserve, so I'll have to limit myself to the statement that both, in their...
JJ 12/69: Don Rendell/Ian Carr – Change Is
By all accounts this is the last LP in the Rendell/Carr partnership which has produced much good music and several durable albums. Change Is...
JJ 12/69: Gary Burton – Country Roads & Other Places
With an excellent batch of compositions by Mike Gibbs, Steve Swallow and himself, Gary Burton is in fine, outgoing form on this set. So...
JJ 12/59: The Art Of Jazz
As can be seen from the subtitle ("Essays on the Nature and Development of Jazz"), The Art Of Jazz is not a book which...
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JJ 12/59: Stan Tracey: Little Klunk
The dominance of the comic strip in popular culture - so much so that some technical instruction manuals are written in this form -...
JJ 12/59: Joe Harriott – Blue Harriott
An excellent local record. It is my guess that it stands a very good chance of featuring in next year's list of poll choices....
Hagood happening
Your review of Herbie Mann: At The Village Gate asks of Hagood Hardy "whatever happened to him?"
Hagood died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1997 (the...
Mary Lou on BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week (18-22 November) on the under-appreciated pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was a fascinating and moving five...
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