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Mark Gilbert
Mark Gilbert was deputy editor, Jazz Journal, 1981-1999, editor from 2009 to present, a leading British contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and has written for other jazz histories. The guitar plays (or should be played more in order to be) a prominent part in his musical life. Email: editor[at]jazzjournal.co.uk
Cruising on a blue note
Have a taste for jazz from the classic Blue Note label and don't mind soaking it up aboard a luxury cruise liner on the...
Preview: Llandudno Jazz Festival 2019
The Llandudno Jazz Festival once again brings a rich array of mainstream to modern jazz to the north Wales coast in July. Local and...
Chris Barber: 70 years and still on the road
Chris Barber, often regarded as the godfather of modern British popular music thanks to his introduction of US blues artists into the UK in...
Saxophonist Tony Woods tours Hidden Fires
John Robert Brown, reviewing Tony Woods' album Hidden Fire in Jazz Journal March 2018 wrote "Woods has developed into one of the UK’s stronger...
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Jimmy Webb: ‘I love chords, and so do jazz musicians’
Something connects Jimmy Webb, writer of such intriguing pop songs as Wichita Lineman and MacArthur Park with jazz. In their original form his tunes...
Steve Fishwick: ‘I can’t get behind the attitude that new is always somehow better than old’
Marshian Time Slip (reviewed in JJ by Derek Ansell) is much inspired by Warne Marsh. What fascinates about Marsh?
Marsh, along with Lennie Tristano and...
Preview: Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival 2019
Over a decade ago, following a chance meeting on a train in Europe between jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and Thomas Lantz, mayor of Ystad,...
Rye Jazz spreads the music in the south-east
Inspired by the success of the Rye International Jazz & Blues Festival (the 8th edition is scheduled for 22-26 August - see below), its...
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Cheltenham: jazz and more
The Cheltenham Jazz Festival returns 1-6 May 2019 with a typically eclectic range of jazz and jazz-inflected music that will appeal to a broad...
Michael Kocour: East of the Sun
"There is nothing groundbreaking here. I'm trying to be as honest and fresh as I can within the tradition". That might sound like a...
Carlos Henriquez: Dizzy con Clave
There's really nothing wrong with this record - singing's a bit off here and there but the playing and arrangements are fabulous, the soloing...
Hubert Laws for London with the Smithsonian
Flautist Hubert Laws, perhaps best known to modern jazz audiences for his virtuoso showing on "Used To Be A (Cha Cha)" from Jaco Pastorius's...
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