Jazz Journal

Reviewed: House Of The Black Gardenia: Mazurka In Jazz | Various: Cuba - Cha Cha Chá 1950-1962 | Sarah L King: The Light Ahead jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/09/rev… via @jazzjournal

Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions. Luca Bragalini examines the non-musical, political inspirations behind Ellington's extended works as well as analysing the musical import of extracts from his scores jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/08/duk… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Cecil McBee: Mutima | Craig Taborn: Dream Archives | Julia Hülsmann Octet: While I Was Away | Pasquale Mega PollCroma Ensemble: Concerto In Tre Colori jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/07/rev… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Ingrid Jensen: Landings | Mateusz Smoczynski: Fallen Angel For Violin, Piano and Orchestra | Håkan Broström: Better Days jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/05/rev… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Bill Nelson’s Orchestra Futura: Live At Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall | Julian Lage: Scenes From Above | Dave Stryker: Blue Fire - The Van Gelder Session jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/03/rev… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Joel Ross: Gospel Music | Gary Peacock & Ralph Towner: Oracle | Aneta George: Eclipses jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/02/rev… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Woody Shaw: Love Dance | The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks | QOW Trio: The Rule Of Three jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/04/01/rev… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/96: Wayne Shorter, interviewed by Mark Gilbert. Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert plumbed the familial and musical origins of one of the leading individualists of the modern period. First published in Jazz Journal March 1996 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/31/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/96: Paula Gardiner – Tales Of Inclination. Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert welcomed a debut that wrought familiar material - including reminders of ECM, Metheny, Debussy and Grieg - into something fresh and individual jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/31/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/96: Jack Bruce – Monkjack. Thirty years ago, Simon Adams listened to a 'a set of atmospheric, occasionally por­tentous songs that promise much and sometimes deliver it'. First published in Jazz Journal March 1996 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/31/jj-… via @jazzjournal

Sam Braysher with Annie Majin at Crazy Coqs. Stickler for convention that he is, Leon Nock once again demurred from the majority view that a good performance is worth applauding, regardless of deviations from the original jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/31/sam… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/86: Tito Puente And His Latin Ensemble – Mambo Diablo. Hace 40 años, Simon Adams estaba de acuerdo en que el diablo tiene todas las mejores melodías y felicitó a Puente por haber convertido Take Five en una canción agradable jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/30/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/86: Herbie Hancock – Speak Like A Child. Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert thought Hancock's latest - conjuring an atmosphere of peace and liberation, if not naiveté - measured up well to its title jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/30/jj-… via @jazzjournal

Burghausen Jazz Week 2026. With Theo Croker doing his bit for the Miles Davis centenary, Mike Stern and Robben Ford reminding of the best of Davis's later years and Cory Henry playing the Bee Gees jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/29/bur… via @jazzjournal

Pablo Held Trio & Chris Potter at the Blue Note, Poznań. Szymon Ratajczyk felt that Chris Potter wasn't just a virtuoso saxophonist on another gig with an unfamiliar trio but part of a 'living, breathing collective organism' jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/28/pab… via @jazzjournal

Reviewed: Charles Tolliver & Stanley Cowell: Music Inc | Nicolas Leirtrø's Action Now!: Entrance | Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/27/rev… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/76: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – Eleven Plus Live At LWT. Fifty years ago, Alun Morgan marvelled at the power, accuracy and solos (take a bow, Phil Todd) of an 'astonishingly good' big band then in receipt of no public funding jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/26/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/76: Dick Wellstood at the Seven Dials. Fifty years ago Miles Kington hailed a proponent of a piano style that 'probably led to the finest flowering of solo improvising since Beethoven'. First published in Jazz Journal March 1976 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/26/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/76: Amalgam – Innovation. Fifty years ago, Barry McRae enjoyed John Stevens playing around the beat and Trevor Watts ranging from blistering scalar flurries to gentle thematic variations. First published in Jazz Journal March 1976 jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/26/jj-… via @jazzjournal

JJ 03/66: Ravi Shankar – Portrait Of A Genius. Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner acknowledged the raga's stylistic connection with jazz but concurred with Gerald Lascelles that its monotony was hard to overcome jazzjournal.co.uk/2026/03/25/jj-… via @jazzjournal