Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace can be seen and heard as a conceptual rejoinder to Afrikan Culture. That album...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra: The Capitol Singles Plus
In 1953, Ellington moved to Capitol Records from Columbia, citing the better promotion offered by his new label. Two years...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2025
Alan Skidmore: A Supreme Love
It's testament to the richness of Skid's considerable output over the years that this box set of almost entirely unreleased...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023
Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 2
The first volume of Digby’s career retrospective was reviewed in Jazzwise 251 (May 2020); now comes Volume Two. Again it’s...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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June Christy: Five Classic Albums (Second Set)
June Christy is a somewhat overlooked figure nowadays, but this first-rate collection from Avid, showcasing her elegant, perfectly-pitched and dynamically...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2021
Various Artists: We Like Ike: 100th Birthday Tribute To Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs
Here’s a 17-track mixed-bag tribute to mark the centenary of the influential jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs who was born in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2020
Dizzy Reece: The Complete Recordings 1954-62
Musicians such as Joe Harriott, Harold McNair, Bogey Gaynair and, in this instance, Dizzy Reece injected the local scene with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013
Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly: British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62
Acrobat (with the aid of researcher-writer Simon Spillett) have done it again. Here's a 24-track compilation that just keeps giving....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018
Various Artists: BBC Jazz Club Rare Transcription Recordings 1959 Volume One
Vocalion have exhumed a series of BBC Jazz Club broadcasts and very welcome they are. Each programme combined a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015
Terry Pack's Trees: Into The Woods
Terry Pack’s prog apprenticeship with The Enid and session work with varios pop/rock figures from Steve Hackett to Sam Fox...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2020
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