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Peter Gamble
Peter has contributed to Jazz Journal and many other music publications over more decades than he cares to remember. He has written or contributed to a number of books including the late 1980s collaboration with the late photographer Peter Symes entitled Focus On Jazz. His writing has not been confined to the music world - he has also written on cricket, football and horse racing, all part of a sporting passion that runs parallel with his love of jazz.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Porgy & Bess
The third collaboration between the duo had both in good voice, even if Granz were right that he never got good trumpet from Armstrong
Bill Evans: The Village Vanguard Sessions
Vinyl reissue of the 1961 concerts that set new horizons for piano trio jazz and laid a template that influenced a generation
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella And Louis Again
The popular 1957 sequel to the popular 1956 debut for Norman Granz's celebrity duo is reissued on 180g vinyl
Billie Holiday: Body And Soul
On purple vinyl if not from a purple patch in her career, this reissue features high-quality sidemen such as Ben Webster and adds extra tracks
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Miles Davis: Milestones
The trumpeter's proto-modal classic, featuring Coltrane, Adderley and Red Garland, gets a new lease of life on 180g blue vinyl
Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me
One of the crooner's most popular albums reappears on blue vinyl together with three period-correct bonus tracks
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Coltrane's edge of the future set, pushing functional harmony to the extreme, is reincarnated on high-grade blue vinyl
Sun Ra And His Arkestra: Jazz In Silhouette
Vinyl reissue of a 1958 session that might confound mainstream critics who think Sun Ra had nothing to do with swing
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Sasha Berliner: Onyx
New York vibist from the Bobby Hutcherson and Walt Dickerson school of subtle rescues My Funny Valentine from its dreary ballad stereotype
Atis Andersons Organ Trio: Organic City
Latvian organ trio (Hammond A100, not B3) with guitar and drums plays strongly in the Jimmy Smith tradition on this vinyl issue
Steve Tibbetts: Hellbound Train – An Anthology
Retrospective of the guitarist's work suggests he might be best when he sets aside the loops, multi-tracking and technology
FreakSon: Tales
The Italian keyboard, bass, percussion and saxophone quartet produces slow, rather rudimentary music with little melodic or timbral variation
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