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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
Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Adam Cruz at Ronnie Scott’s
The pianist, bassist and drummer played a demanding set mixing jazz with Latin American folk, odd metres and lashings of 20c European harmony
Jim Beard: delight in the detail
Pianist Jim Beard, who died 2 March, was a natural for the keyboard seat in Steely Dan, as exemplified by his own richly appointed solo work
The great wine world of Quincy Jones
Wine from the cellar of the renowned arranger and producer was sold in an auction conducted by Christie's from Los Angeles
Steve Voce, 1933-2023
The long-serving and popular Jazz Journal columnist and reviewer Steve Voce died in Liverpool this week, aged 89
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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
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
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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
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
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