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Gerry Mulligan Sextet: Night Lights + Butterfly With Hiccups
The early 60s was a difficult time not only for Gerry Mulligan but also for jazz in general. Work for his CJB had become intermittent, leading to the band’s...
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Jazz in review: 2019
Simon Adams
A Good Year: For the Love Supreme Festival in Sussex, at which the unexpected highlight this past year was a Spanish-enthused Chick Corea but which also introduced me...
Obituary: John Oddo
John Oddo is perhaps best known to jazz fans for his spell in the early 1980s as pianist, arranger and sometimes composer with Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd, appearing on...
Hidden Man – My Many Musical Lives
Hidden? Well, not anymore, if he ever was. He has been well known in music and entertainment circles for many years for his composing, arranging and performing skills. A...
JJ 04/91: Barney Wilen With The Mal Waldron Trio – Movie Themes From France
This is a much better album than the title might suggest. Wilen still has the blend of tasteful restraint and inventiveness which marked his memorable duet with Miles Davis...
A Man Called Adam
I imagine a film critic would find fault with a number of aspects of this film, but my responsibility is to assess what interest it may have for someone...
