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Jun 6
Reviewed: Jean-Baptiste Rousseaux: Kaveriot Korridor | Eivind Aarset 4tet: Strange Hands | Judith Berkson: Thee They Thy
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Reviewed: Hytta Trio: Vindespel | Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii: Katarahi | Tomasz Stańko: Balladyna
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Judith Owen & The Callers at Bush Hall, London. The feisty Wales-rooted, NO-based singer was at a non-central London venue with a large capacity in the middle of a heatwave but the line stretched around the block
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Reviewed: Louis Stewart: Joyce Notes | Jon Irabagon: Saturday's Child | Olivier Le Goas & Ensemble Pulse: The Chaining Loops
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Jun 6
Reviewed: Five-Way Split: Modus Operandi | Grammofon: Fabelagtige Forviklinger
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Reviewed: Gordon Grdina & Russ Lossing: Turnpike | Dave Harrington with Max Jaffe and Patrick Shiroishi: Making Colors | Christoph Irniger & Marc Perrenoud: New Lines jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/05/30… via @jazzjournal
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Reviewed: Roy Hargrove: Bern | Web Web: Kover Kover | Chet Baker: Shine | In memoriam: Maja Lemmen jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/05/29… via @jazzjournal
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Reviewed: Leïla Olivesi: African Rhapsody | Chet Baker: Shine | Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez: Blossom
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Jun 6
JJ 05/96: Shooting From The Hip. Thirty years ago, while not always agreeing with John Fordham's taste, Richard Palmer recommended a collection of what he wrote about jazz for the Guardian and others between 1970 and 1996
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Jun 6
JJ 05/96: British Saxophone Quartet – Early October. American role models notwithstanding, 30 years ago Barry McRae heard the BSQ of Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard and George Haslam go their own way
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JJ 05/86: Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but hoped that Holdsworth might play with Corea, DeJohnette and Holland
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Jun 6
JJ 05/86: Joe Henderson – Our Thing. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was pleased to be acquainted with the early work of a saxophonist who, by 1986, had become a major and abiding influence on contemporary saxophone
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Jun 6
JJ 05/86: The Guest Stars – Out At Night. Forty years ago, Simon Adams welcomed the jazz, funk, Latin and African mix of British all-female group The Guest Stars' second album while looking forward to more risk-taking on their next
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JJ 05/86: Camden Jazz Week, London. Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the original, now perpetual, British jazz revival
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May 25
JJ 05/76: Lonnie Liston-Smith – Visions Of A New World. Liston-Smith's mid-70s records have become articles of faith for acid-jazz, but Roger Dean didn't get as far as musicological analysis of Visions, deeming it 'extremely monotonous'
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May 25
JJ 05/76: Ralph Towner – Solstice. Fifty years ago, Burnett James found that the sitar gimmickry of the 60s had matured into a proper Indian - or at least Eastern - influence in jazz. First published in Jazz Journal May 1976
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JJ 05/76: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – Jaywalkin’. Fifty years ago, Michael Shera found strings of bass solos and Pedersen's compositions rather dull but seemed to miss two incandescent and redeeming bop solos on Cheryl
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JJ 05/76: Paul Bley, John Gilmore, Jimmy Giuffre – Alone Again / Quiet Song / Turning Point. Fifty years ago, Roger Dean, unusually among jazz critics, gave a musicological thumbs-up to the first issues on Bley's own record label
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JJ 05/66: Dick Morrissey – Storm Warning. Sixty years ago, after noting that many British groups start with a handicap, Michael Shera thoroughly recommended Dick Morrissey's new album. First published in Jazz Journal May 1966
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