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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

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

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
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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

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
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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

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
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