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Chris Potter: Eagle’s Point

Ian Lomax -

'Supergroup' might be PR gush but Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade play their soft ’n' bop pieces very well

Billie Holiday: Sings

Hugh Rainey -

The singer's comeback under Norman Granz showed a deterioration in tone but none in the unique ability to manipulate melody and lyric

Jazzkaar Festival, Tallinn

Pascal Dorban -

Snarky Puppy, Christian McBride, Dora Morelenbaum and much Baltic talent took the stage at the 35th Jazzkar festival in Estonia

Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album

Gordon Jack -

Baker plays well on this first issue of one of his first dates after his 1966 beating, though overshadowed by Sheldon as trumpeter and singer

Gerald Cannon: Live At Dizzy’s Club: The Music Of Elvin & McCoy

François van de Linde -

Former Roy Hargrove bassist leads Tyner-Jones alumni including Dave Kikoski, Eddie Henderson and Lenny White in a modally inclined set

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan

Derek Ansell -

The Messengers' 1962 Riverside album signalled a stylistic departure from its Blue Note work, offering more variety and more relaxation

Audio reviews

Chris Potter: Eagle’s Point

'Supergroup' might be PR gush but Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade play their soft ’n' bop pieces very well

Billie Holiday: Sings

Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album

Gerald Cannon: Live At Dizzy’s Club: The Music Of Elvin & McCoy

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan

Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black

Louis Stewart: Louis The First

Diane McLoughlin / The Casimir Connection: Reflection

Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs

Gustav Renberg: Introspection

Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja

Paul Dunmall: Soultime Again

Empirical: Wonder Is The Beginning

Henry Dagg & Evan Parker: Then Through Now

D’Andrea, Tommaso, Tonani: Modern Art Trio

Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

Flo And The Murmurs: The Waves

Melissa Aldana: Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue

Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human

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

Jazzkaar Festival, Tallinn

Snarky Puppy, Christian McBride, Dora Morelenbaum and much Baltic talent took the stage at the 35th Jazzkar festival in Estonia

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

Rick Margitza at Jazz Hastings

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

Obituary: Michael Cuscuna

The Connecticut-born jazz fan was the saviour of a wealth of forgotten, unreleased recordings and a champion of audiophile reissues

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

Obituary: Jeff Beck

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