Review of The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

Waxtime In Color

Rating: ★★★

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Brubeck Editions

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a significant snapshot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in excellent fidelity, that numbers among Brubeck’s finest live albums...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

Review of Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones: The Complete Sessions

Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones: The Complete Sessions

Barry Galbraith | Billy Byers | Budd Johnson | Charlie Shavers | Clark Terry | Dinah Washington | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cobb | Joe Newman | Lucky Thompson

Editor's Choice

Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55728

Rating: ★★★★

Before he moved on to other things, Quincy Jones’ big band arranging of the late 1950s was seldom surpassed, particularly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022

Review of Dave Holland Trio: Triplicate

Dave Holland Trio: Triplicate

Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Steve Coleman

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Triplicate was the most pared-down of the five ECM recordings made under the great Brit bassist's name that featured a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Review of Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul: Reunion: Live in New York

Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul: Reunion: Live in New York

Barry Altschul | Dave Holland | Sam Rivers

Pi Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

When I think of Sam Rivers – and I do – I don't think of his great Blue Note records...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of Dave Douglas: Dark Territory

Dave Douglas: Dark Territory

Dave Douglas | Jonathan Maron | Mark Guiliana | Shigeto

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

Douglas’ second album from his electronics-fuelled band confirms, as if confirmation were needed, the horn man's extraordinary vocabulary. Dark Territory...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Review of Dave Stapleton: Flight

Dave Stapleton: Flight

Burniss Traviss | James Francies | Jeremy Dutton | Joel Ross | Mike Mitchell | Mike Moreno

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Flight is an important step in the career of Dave Stapleton and marks a temporary break from his quintet that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Review of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Presenting/Live At the Village Vanguard/Big Band Sound

Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Presenting/Live At the Village Vanguard/Big Band Sound

Bob Brookmeyer | Eddie Daniels | Garnett Brown | Hank Jones | Jerome Richardson | Jerry Dodgion | Jimmy Nottingham | Joe Farrell | Mel Lewis | Pepper Adams

BGO

Rating: ★★★★

Bombastic big-band jazz has never been my thing but this unique outfit was much subtler than the average and arguably...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2013

Review of Dave Green Trio with Evan Parker: Raise Four

Dave Green Trio with Evan Parker: Raise Four

Dave Green | Evan Parker | Gene Calderazzo | Iain Dixon

Trio Records tr605

Rating: ★★★★

The radio broadcaster Jez Nelson refers to Dave Green as ‘British Jazz Royalty’ in the liner notes of this archive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Review of Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones: The Complete Sessions

Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones: The Complete Sessions

Barry Galbraith | Billy Byers | Budd Johnson | Charlie Shavers | Clark Terry | Dinah Washington | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cobb | Joe Newman | Lucky Thompson

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Before he moved on to other things, Quincy Jones’ big band arranging of the late 1950s was seldom surpassed, particularly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

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