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JJ 07/64: Sheila Jordan – Portrait Of Sheila

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Sixty years ago Steve Voce welcomed Jordan's vocals as a spectacular relief from Blue Note's bloody-minded tenorists and noisy organ-players

Kenny Garrett & SVOY: Who Killed AI?

Peter Gamble -
Saxophonist Garrett plays with typical flair over electronic backgrounds, including a updated view of Miles Davis's voodoo rundown

Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek: Luminessence

Michael Tucker -
Reissue on high-grade vinyl of the 1974 set in which saxophonist Jan Garbarek plays over string pieces written by Keith Jarrett

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Ronnie Scott’s

Mark Gilbert -
The young Americans brought an even younger band to London, featuring Munir Hossn, Grégoire Maret, Wesley Ritenour and Tatiana Parra

JJ 07/64: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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Sixty years ago, after seeing the Brubeck quartet live in England, someone, perhaps Sinclair Traill, reckoned his group didn't play jazz

Brenda Earle Stokes: Motherhood

Matty Bannond -
Canadian singer and pianist flirts with kitsch but stays firm in a wistful set of Latin and light-rock originals featuring Ingrid Jensen

Anita O’Day: Sings For Oscar

Leon Nock -
O'Day's 1957 set with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis and Ray Brown is reissued with Pick Yourself Up With Anita O’Day and a bonus track

JJ 07/64: Jimmy Witherspoon at Ronnie Scott’s

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Sixty years ago, when US jazzmen seemed to be in every pub, Sinclair Traill saw Spoon's vivid big-city blues accompanied by the Scott quartet

Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place

John White -
Heard here in 2023, the octogenarian pianist continues to plough his customary modern-mainstream furrow with fluency and invention

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin: Brasil

John Adcock -
The West Coast guitar and keyboard legends reflect the cooler, more lyrical aspect of their inspiration rather than the frenzy of carnival

JJ 07/64: Cannonball Adderley at Birmingham Town Hall

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Sixty years ago Mark Gardner hated Charles Lloyd, loved Zawinul and Ranglin and saw the jazz boom end, despite Brian Epstein's involvement

Stan Getz: Jazz Samba plus Jazz Samba Encore!

Ian Lomax -
The saxophonist's groundbreaking introduction, thanks to Charlie Byrd, of the bossa nova to the global north is repackaged with its sequel

Sidney Bechet: Plays Sidney Bechet

Hugh Rainey -
Reissue of the 1965 Vogue LP highlights Bechet's compositional skills 1950-57 and adds four bonus tracks from the same sessions

JJ 07/64: John Lee Hooker at The Flamingo

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Sixty years ago Gina Wright braved the heat of the Wardour St club to see the shamanic bluesman backed by John Mayall's band

Karrin Allyson: A Kiss For Brazil

Gordon Jack -
Singer who has covered Coltrane, Joni Mitchell and Rodgers & Hammerstein turns her full attention to the bossa nova

The Other Way: Learning to Be

Darren Arthurs -
Bristol-based trumpet, vocals, keyboard, bass and drums mix jazz, funk, folk and world in a way that ought to be captivating on stage

Red Garland Trio: Groovy

Derek Ansell -
Solid 1957 bop and blues session from the Miles Davis pianist is reissued on 180g vinyl in high-quality packaging replicating the original

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance

Brian Payne -
Fleck emerged as a bluegrass banjoist but he soon adopted jazz and with the eclectic Corea travels there and many places elsewhere

AVA Trio: The Great Green 

Andy Hamilton -
Amsterdam-based trio imagine the music of the ancient world, the outcome a hypnotic synthesis of jazz, folk and free improvisation

Antonio Farao: Tributes

Matty Bannond -
Along with John Patitucci and Jeff Ballard the Italian pianist salutes his inspirations, rich in hard bop and including Chick Corea's Matrix

Alison Burns & Martin Taylor: Songs For Nature

Ian Lomax -
The singer and guitarist play a mellow, cleanly recorded set of swing and Latin standards, Taylor liberally overdubbing solos

Jack Walrath: Live At Smalls

Peter Gamble -
The former Mingus trumpeter colours a set of solid hard bop with varied arrangements and references to jazz ancient and modern

Eleonora Claps: 10PM

Matty Bannond -
The Milan-born drummer and singer presents a fetching batch of funky, Latin-flavoured songs laced with keyboard solos from John Crawford

John Crawford: Room For Dancing

Brian Payne -
London-born pianist leads cello, guitar, bass, vocals and percussion in a set of sophisticated Latin-flavoured jazz

Monika Ryan: Alive

Brian Payne -
Fifteenth album from NY-based singer formerly with Al Grey and Charlie Persip mixes often Latin-based music with philosophical observation

Christian Holm-Svendsen: Totem

Nigel Jarrett -
Scandinavian saxophone, bass and drums play harmonically solemn chamber jazz, using a range of swing and ballad rhythms

Spirit Of The Century

Barry Witherden -
The fraught, sometimes contradictory journey of the famous gospel group is laid out with evocative testimony and photos

Ricardo Pinheiro: making jazz happen

François van de Linde -
The Portuguese guitarist is an exemplar of globalised jazz, hustling up, out of Lisbon, work with a string of international names

Albare: Beyond Belief

Nic Jones -
Mellow-toned guitarist is joined by a fluent pianist and rhythm in a smoothly executed set of swing and Latin originals

Trio JDM: Fast Corners

Peter Gamble -
Organ, guitar and drums trio from the north of England does a good job in the style of Jimmy Smith and others

Jazz in the Park competition, Romania

Pascal Dorban -
Young jazz competition in Cluj-Napoca's central park included music from Romania, Ukraine, Glasgow and Cuba

Joe Harriott: Abstract / Southern Horizons / Free Form

Matthew Wright -
Double CD spanning 1955-62 collects three albums, EP tracks and oddments by Britain's Parker acolyte turned avant-garde experimentalist

Natsuki Tamura & Jim Black: NatJim

Fred Grand -
Drummer Black, now based in Bern, plays unpredictable compositions and improvisations with Japanese trumpeter Tamura

Nat King Cole: To Whom It May Concern + Every Time I Feel The Spirit

Simon Adams -
Cole is in his element on the love collection To Whom It May Concern but not in the bonus gospel set where he seems not to feel the spirit

Charles Mingus: Incarnations

Roger Farbey -
Reissue of the 1960 LP with Roy Eldridge, Paul Bley et al includes another, unreleased, reading of Mingus favourite All The Things You Are

Jan Garbarek Quartet: Afric Pepperbird

Michael Tucker -
High-grade vinyl reissue of the 1970 album in which the Norwegian saxophonist mixed free and modal jazz, world music and rock
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