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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
Steve Voce, 1933-2023
The long-serving and popular Jazz Journal columnist and reviewer Steve Voce died in Liverpool this week, aged 89
Obituary: Bruce Crowther
Well known for his jazz journalism, Bruce was also a prolific writer of crime fiction, including The Rose Medallion, serialised for BBC TV
Lottery awards £247,494 to research black music shops
Leicester-based arts body says the early independent UK record store was a music-fuelled vehicle for resistance against systemic racism
The Humbler – Danny Gatton
Comprehensive chronicle adds new footage of 'the greatest guitarist you never heard', one perhaps isolated by his eclecticism and virtuosity
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Charlie Watts collection for auction at Christie’s
Charlie Parker's union card, his 'alto break' contracts and two Beiderbecke scores are among the jazz-related items on sale in September
The Practice Notebooks Of Michael Brecker
The sax virtuoso's notebooks reveal a collection of musical fragments that he transmuted and expanded as part of a rigorous practice regime
Peter Green guitar auction makes £483,300
The renowned British bluesman had a collection of around 150 guitars, some of which sold at Bonhams for over five times the estimate
Tony Coe: ‘The first prerequisite is that it should be honest’
To mark the death of Tony Coe we republish an article in which he comments on Basie, the Beatles, Jan Garbarek, modal and free jazz and more
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Wayne Shorter: one of the last modernists
The novel arrangements of harmony and melody in the saxophonist’s early 1960s work formed a landmark in the last decades of jazz modernism
JJ 01/73: Welcome to Europe
Touching reminders of how JJ advertisers marked the UK's entry into the European family. It appears none has celebrated its departure
Donate your spare instrument at Ronnie’s
The London club is again collecting unwanted instruments for distribution to children with limited access to musical expression
Scottish bassist wins BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022
The fifth BBC young jazz final underlined the tremendous technical advance in British jazz, even if stylistic departure was less apparent
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