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Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Copenhagen 1960

Gordon Jack -

Vinyl reissue documents a 1960 session from a JATP tour that Coltrane almost didn't join because Miles wouldn't pay him $1000 a week

Guy Salamon: Free Hugs

François van de Linde -

Holland-based, Israel-born drummer throws a rock-guitar riff, a folky jig, mood music and jazz licks into his whimsical postmodern melting pot

Count Me In… 05/24

Nigel Jarrett -

Jazz might be the sound of surprise but it can also be the surprise find, popping up serendipitously in unexpected places

Owen Broder: Hodges: Front And Center – Vol. Two

Derek Ansell -

Florida-raised saxophonist with trumpet, piano, bass and drums pays tribute to Johnny Hodges, occasionally hinting at more modern vocabulary

Kaze: Unwritten

Barry Witherden -

Franco-Japanese quartet featuring Satoko Fujii plays free, ranging through tranquil glades, wild maelstroms and stations between

Michael Thomas: The Illusion Of Choice

Andy Hamilton -

NY saxophonist leads pianist Manuel Valera, bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Obed Calvaire in a set of modern modal jazz

Audio reviews

Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Copenhagen 1960

Vinyl reissue documents a 1960 session from a JATP tour that Coltrane almost didn't join because Miles wouldn't pay him $1000 a week

Guy Salamon: Free Hugs

Owen Broder: Hodges: Front And Center – Vol. Two

Kaze: Unwritten

Michael Thomas: The Illusion Of Choice

Perelman, Fowler, Workman, Cyrille: Embracing The Unknown

Oeuf Big Band: Astro-Symphonie

Christoph Gallio, Dominic Lash & Mark Sanders: Live At Café Oto London

Christopher Hoffman: Vision Is The Identity

Julian Lage: Speak To Me

Chris Spedding: Songs Without Words

Chuck Berry: After School Session

John Etheridge Blue Spirits: Live

Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings: Better

Florian Arbenz: Conversation #11/#12 ON!

Judy Whitmore: Come Fly With Me

Cedar Walton: The Trio, Volumes 1-3

Mark Egan: Cross Currents

Chris Potter: Eagle’s Point

Billie Holiday: Sings

Book reviews

The Blues Brothers

Detailed book traces the story of a film that was reviled by many critics but struck a note with the populus and grossed millions of dollars

Knowing Jazz / Learning Jazz

Chasing The Masters – First Takes Of A Modern Drumming Artist

Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs & Hidden Histories

The Many Worlds Of David Amram

Cedar – The Life And Music Of Cedar Walton

Bitter Crop: The Heartache And Triumph Of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

Free Play: Improvisation In Life & Art

3 Shades Of Blue: Miles, Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans And The Lost Empire Of Cool

Early Jazz – A Concise Introduction, From Its Beginnings Through 1929

Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums

Jazz With A Beat – Small Group Swing, 1940–1960

Dreams In Double Time

Magic City: How The Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped The Sound Of America

Jennie Cashman Wilson: Becoming Brave

Gerry Mulligan: Writings On A Jazz Original

Dark Tree – Jazz And The Community Arts In Los Angeles

Prehistory Of Jazz

Debt And Redemption In The Blues – The Call For Justice

Kind Of Green: Jazz Legends, From ’86 – ’90, Through An Irish Lens

Film reviews

The Humbler – Danny Gatton

Comprehensive chronicle adds new footage of 'the greatest guitarist you never heard', one perhaps isolated by his eclecticism and virtuosity

Sloane: A Jazz Singer

City Of A Million Dreams

Oscar Peterson: Black + White

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Dale Bruning: A Tribute To Jim Hall

In Cold Blood

A Man Called Adam

Jazz On A Summer’s Day

Buster Williams: Bass To Infinity

Billy Bang: Lucky Man

Wilderness

Up From The Streets – New Orleans: The City Of Music

Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool – the DVD

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Small-screen swing

Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott and His World-Famous Jazz Club

Billie

Ronnie’s – the life of Ronnie Scott and his world famous jazz club

Count Basie – Through His Own Eyes

Live Reviews

Shirley Smart Trio at the Watermill, Dorking

It was some way from the usual jazz fare, but the audience enjoyed cellist Smart's exotic North African sounds. Report by Graham Thomas

Jazzkaar Festival, Tallinn

Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein & Bill Stewart at Pizza Express, London

jazzahead! 2024

Bergamo Jazz Festival, 2024

John Scofield’s “Yankee Go Home”, Ronnie Scott’s, London

Simon Spillett Big Band, Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Adam Cruz at Ronnie Scott’s

Lis Wessberg Quartet at Turner Sims, Southampton

Sam Braysher Quartet at Spike’s Place in Beckenham

Brilliant Corners festival, Belfast

Jo Harrop Quintet at Chichester Jazz Club

The Wojtek Justyna TreeOH! at Jazz Schmiede, Düsseldorf

A snowy night in New York’s West Village

Clark Tracey brings Dylan Thomas to Wales

News in brief

Michael Cuscuna dies

Jazz Journal -

A jazz archaeologist before it became fashionable, Cuscuna was famed for unearthing overlooked Blue Note material and founding Mosaic Records

Keith Emerson reimagined for strings and more

Gypsy Jazz Festival of London, 6-13 May

German jazz trade-fair strikes a political note

The great wine world of Quincy Jones

Cadillac’s Joy reissue gets Presto award

Stan Sulzmann’s 75th birthday gig at Watermill Jazz

Steve Voce, 1933-2023

Val Wilmer looks back on jazz

Lottery awards £247,494 to research black music shops

The Dick Patterson Trio – a real-life jazz mystery

London’s Ladbroke Hall hosts major jazz series

Roman Bulakhov surfs the jazz wave in Ukraine

Columns

Count Me In… 05/24

Jazz might be the sound of surprise but it can also be the surprise find, popping up serendipitously in unexpected places

Obituary: Michael Cuscuna

Obituary: Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath

Obituary: Georg Riedel

Obituary: Brian Godding

Obituary: Bruce Crowther

Count Me In… 10/23

Obituary: Julian Bahula

Obituary: John Marshall

Obituary: Tony Bennett

Count me in… 05/23

Obituary: Ahmad Jamal

Obituary: Jerry Dodgion

Obituary: Wally Fawkes

Obituary: Alan Bates

Obituary: Guido Basso

Obituary: Carol Sloane

Features

Blossom Dearie: slight of sound, full of expression

She of the childlike voice, named after the pear blossoms brought to her on the day of her birth, would have been 100 years old today

Henry Mancini, a jazz pioneer in Hollywood

Zev Feldman: digging out the lost gems

Lizz Wright: looking back

Bob Florence Limited Edition: a big-band blast

100 years ago: Sarah Vaughan

Jim Beard: delight in the detail

The rapturous reed: saxophone in the cinema

My friend, Steve Voce

Terry Gibbs: bebop is my business /2

Dave Quincy, English jazz-rock pioneer

Terry Gibbs: bebop is my business /1

Emma Rawicz: in the middle of somewhere

Bill Crow: journeyman bassist and master storyteller /2

Alex Hitchcock: making connections

Bill Crow: journeyman bassist and master storyteller

Meilana Gillard – a story to tell

From the JJ archive

JJ 04/94: Pinski Zoo – De-Icer

Thirty years ago Barry McRae heard in punk-jazz band Pinski Zoo the most positive European manifestation of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time

JJ 04/94: Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marsalis

JJ 04/84: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

JJ 04/84: Jean-Luc Ponty – Individual Choice

JJ 04/84: Stan Tracey’s Under Milk Wood at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

JJ 04/74: John McLaughlin – Between Nothingness And Eternity

JJ 04/74: Mike Westbrook – Live

JJ 04/64: Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley’s Beach Party

JJ 04/64: Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones

JJ 04/64: Wes Montgomery – Full House

JJ 04/64: Dick Morrissey, interviewed

JJ 04/64: In My Opinion – Quincy Jones

JJ 03/94: Eberhard Weber – Pendulum

JJ 03/94: The Jazz Guitar

JJ 03/84: Holdsworth, Young, Guy, Mathewson, Stevens – Retouch