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Jazz Journal
Lawrence Clark’s visions of Ali and Coltrane
New-York-based tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark has just released his second album, Inner Visions - in large part a homage to one of his biggest inspirations, drummer...
Refreshingly familiar: the 606 Club Chelsea
The 606 Club in Chelsea has been presenting jazz, soul, R&B, blues and Latin music since 1976, making it one of London’s oldest independent...
Brian Morton: smart and passionate writing
I have been an avid reader of the jazz writing of Brian Morton for the past 15 years and lately I thought it was...
Concert of the century, pretty well
Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Philly Joe Jones came together for a magnificent but little-known concert in Montréal...
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Improvisation and discovery
Improvisation - a destination arrived at by many musicians via different routes and by different modes of transport, musicians arriving via jazz, classical, folk,...
JJ 08/89: Jazz around the clock
As many many provincial presenters are faced with shrinking air-time, Londoners can look forward to jazz 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Early...
JJ 08/89: Paul Bley / Paul Motian – Notes
This record represents something of a seduction job. It offers two of the most melodic of players using their instruments to really 'take' the...
JJ 08/79: Hammersmith and Fulham Jazz Festival
Perhaps the most exciting performance of the day was that of guitarist Keith Rowe and drummer Eddie Prevost. Music of appalling originality, their set...
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JJ 08/79: Bengt Hallberg – Egenhändigt. Hallberg / Karin Krog – A Song For You
Two more excellent Swedish albums to jolt the British jazz fraternity out of their feeling of security. Hallberg, of course, has an unimpeachable pedigree....
JJ 08/79: Karin Krog / John Surman – Cloud Line Blue
Despite the 1958 Annie Ross / Gerry Mulligan precedent, a combination of voice and baritone sax might seem implausible. In fact, Surman plays soprano,...
JJ 08/69: A Touch Of The Terrible Horrors
'Seven men perform the execution, with Stockhausen himself doubling a mean filter with a wailing potentiometer'
Keith Howell, Press Officer at CBS Records, is an...
JJ 08/69: John McLaughlin – Extrapolation
Another one of those albums whose beauties grow apparent with repeated playing. McLaughlin is of course the young British guitarist who has recently been...
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