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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
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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Clive Myrie’s headline jazz albums
The BBC newsman will air tracks from 10 albums he believes should be in every jazz lover's collection, including Nubya Garcia and Della Reese
Blue Note pops up in London
The legendary label will operate a pop-up shop in London's King's Cross during this year's EFG London Jazz Festival
Exhibition and book salute Randi Hultin’s photography
The National Library of Norway announces an exhibition and book of the Norwegian journalist's evocative and historic jazz photography
The Red Sea’s November jazz weekend
Israel’s Eilat Harbor is the venue 10-12 November for concerts including Cory Henry, Mulatu Astatke and the English saxophonist Emma Rawicz
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Joey DeFrancesco dies, aged 51
The Philadelphia-born organist shot to jazz fame in the late 1980s and is recognised as inspiring the enduring revival of organ jazz
Jazz FM invites musicians to be ‘guest Head of Music’
Nu-jazz newcomer Emma-Jean Thackray, drummer Makaya McCraven and British soul singer Mica Miller will present their favourites
Stanley Jordan returns to Ronnie Scott’s
Two-handed tapper Stanley Jordan and one-time young lion Chico Freeman are among the intriguing bookings at the club this month and next
Frank Zappa estate acquired by Universal
The corporation will market both old and unissued music by the man who said 'Jazz is not dead . . . it just smells funny'
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