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Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Copenhagen 1960
Gordon Jack
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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
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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
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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
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Florida-raised saxophonist with trumpet, piano, bass and drums pays tribute to Johnny Hodges, occasionally hinting at more modern vocabulary
Kaze: Unwritten
Barry Witherden
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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JJ 04/64: Dick Morrissey, interviewed
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JJ 03/94: The Jazz Guitar
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News in detail
Michael Cuscuna dies
22 April 2024
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
19 April 2024
An unplugged tribute to the British progressive rock pioneer by eminent French arranger Thierry Eliez is reissued this month
Gypsy Jazz Festival of London, 6-13 May
19 April 2024
Festival director Tobie Medland looks forward to seeing Stochelo Rosenberg, Gismo Graf, Tcha Limberger and more
German jazz trade-fair strikes a political note
12 April 2024
The opening night of jazzahead! in Bremen combined declarations of the jazz-as-freedom idea with music from Han Bennink and others
The great wine world of Quincy Jones
13 December 2023
Wine from the cellar of the renowned arranger and producer was sold in an auction conducted by Christie's from Los Angeles
Cadillac’s Joy reissue gets Presto award
08 December 2023
The 1976 album Joy, featuring Jim Dvorak and Ernest Mothle, has been recognised as Jazz Best Archive/Reissue Of The Year
Stan Sulzmann’s 75th birthday gig at Watermill Jazz
01 December 2023
The saxophonist's 75th birthday gig in Dorking featured his Neon Orchestra with special guest Nikki Iles on accordion
Steve Voce, 1933-2023
25 November 2023
The long-serving and popular Jazz Journal columnist and reviewer Steve Voce died in Liverpool this week, aged 89
Val Wilmer looks back on jazz
06 November 2023
Work by the British photographer and jazz journalist Val Wilmer is on show in north London until the end of November
Lottery awards £247,494 to research black music shops
05 November 2023
Leicester-based arts body says the early independent UK record store was a music-fuelled vehicle for resistance against systemic racism