Jazz Journal

JJ 04/86: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert had his first go at fathoming the mysterious roots of the tenor and composition giant. First published in Jazz Journal April 1986 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/86: Loose Tubes. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed one manifestation of the 80s jazz 'revival' that properly reflected the vitality implicit the term. First published in Jazz Journal April 1986 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/86: Herbie Hancock / Foday Musa Suso – Village Life. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was disappointed that Herbie Hancock seemed disinclined to relieve the monotony of 40 minutes of noodling kora jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/86: Rhythm-A-Ning. Forty years ago, Chris Sheridan applauded Gary Giddins' misapprehension of fusion as music of 'stuffed rhythms, runny intonation, bloodshot mel­odies'. First published in Jazz Journal April 1986 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/76: Tony Bennett & Bill Evans – The Tony Bennett And Bill Evans Album. Fifty years ago, Michael Shera heard Bill Evans making one of the best singers of popular song sound better than he was jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/76: Dexter Gordon – Stable Mable. Fifty years ago, Steve Voce observed that the bare-bones setting of tenor and rhythm exposes weakness but that in Dexter's case there wasn't any. First published in Jazz Journal April 1976 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/jj-… via @jazzjournal

Liza Pulman & Joe Stilgoe: Hooray For Hollywood. Leon Nock thought a peerless piano and voice performance drawing on the Hollywood and Broadway songbook was the best thing he had seen all year jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/29/liz… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments | Jake Mason Trio: The Modern Ark | Terry Callier: At The Earl Of Old Town jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/28/rev… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/76: Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh At Middleton Hall, Hull. Fifty years ago, Michael Shera marvelled at seeing Warne Marsh - 'the greatest tenor saxophonist active in jazz at present' - appearing, improbably, in Hull jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/27/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/66: Eddie Harris – The In Sound. Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, declaring himself resolutely out with the Out Sound, couldn't square Harris's immaculate tone and technique with the way he deployed them. jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/27/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/66: Paul Desmond – Glad To Be Unhappy. Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner was glad to find that while the jazz scene in general lacked good taste and sincerity, those qualities were abundant in the work of Paul Desmond and Jim Hall jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/27/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 04/66: Freddie Hubbard – The Night Of The Cookers – Vol. One. Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner enjoyed the sparks flying when two creative, virtuoso bebop trumpeters - Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan - locked horns jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/27/jj-… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Joe Henderson: Consonance - Live At The Jazz Showcase | Laura J. Marras: Plays Joe Henderson | Wartel, Wartel, Wartel Collins, Landæus: Celebrating Live jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/27/rev… via @jazzjournal

Judith Owen: ‘I dream of being unladylike’. We might assume from past photoshoots that Judith Owen is a raunchy bar-room blues belter but her new album, Suit Yourself, shows her aptitude for more subtle shades jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/26/jud… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Alcyona Mick & Liam Noble: Distant Plains | Olivier Hutman & Lamine Cissokho (featuring Eric Bibb): The Following | Roscoe Mitchell & Michele Rabbia: In 2 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/25/rev… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Tim Garland & Geoffrey Keezer: Mezzo | Rachel Sutton: Realms | Diana Torti: Fearless jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/24/rev… via @jazzjournal

Swanage Jazz Festival presents ‘pure jazz’ in 30 concerts. While other festivals drink the compromise of pop crowd-pullers, the 35-year-old Jurassic Coast event, driven by grassroots enthusiasm, sticks with those versed in the real thing jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/22/swa… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Nina Simone: At The Village Gate | Mark Adams & The Neo Soul Allstars: This Is Neo Soul jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/22/rev… via @jazzjournal

Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2026. An array of pop, blues, soul, R&B - and jazz - is lined up for the 30th Cheltenham Jazz Festival later this month. Among the jazz players are Guy Barker, Joshua Redman and Emma Rawicz jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/21/che… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1964 | Bill Evans: At The BBC | Lalo Schifrin: Insensatez jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/21/rev… via @jazzjournal