Cannonball Adderley Quintet: In Concert
Cannonball Adderley | Louis Hayes | Nat Adderley | Sam Jones | Victor Feldman
Here's another of these rewarding SteepleChase concert recordings from Copenhagen's Falkoner Centret, with Cannonball, post Miles Davis, presenting his very...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023
Sonny Stitt: Now!/Salt & Pepper
Al Lucas | Hank Jones | Milt Hinton | Osie Johnson | Paul Gonsalves | Sonny Stitt
At last on CD, these sought-after albums were both recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's pad in Hackensack, the New Jersey...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012
FAB Trio: History Of Jazz In Reverse
Barry Altschul | Billy Bang | Joe Fonda
As he showed on his heart-stopping Vietnam-themed releases, Bang, who lived through the horrors of that war as a teenage...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2012
Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band: Presence
Philadelphia’s Captain Black Big Band are a jubilantly risk-embracing collective formed from the city’s sharpest jazz players – organised (though...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019
Lookout Farm: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall
Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach
Dave Liebman was still with Miles Davis when he recorded Lookout Farm (ECM) in 1973, leaving the trumpet player's band...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Grant Green and Baby Face Willette: Trio & Quartet/The Complete Recordings
Baby Face Willette | Ben Dixon | Dave Bailey | Fred Jackson | Grant Green | Lou Donaldson
Blink and you could have easily missed Roosevelt Baby Face Willette whose stay at Blue Note amounted to just five...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014
Album Interview: Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane
Francisco Mela | Nduduzo Makhathini | Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere
Despite the contemporary praise for its ‘African authenticity’, on Makhathini’s 2020 Blue Note debut, Modes of Communication: Letters From the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Emil Viklický/Imogen Ryall: Songs
Emil Viklický | Eric Ford | Imogen Ryall | Julian Nicholas | Petr Dvorský
Once hailed by my late Jazzwise colleague, Jack Massarik, as the "patriarch of Czech jazz piano", Emil Viklický is a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2024
Contraband: Time & Space
Brian Moffatt | Bruce Cale | Charles Orena | David Pritchard | Pete Robinson
With Fontanelle's new album Vitamin F currently making waves, it'd be nice to think the ring modulator is primed for...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2013
Chat Noir: Elec3Cities
Giuliano Ferrari | Luca Fogagnolo | Michele Cavallari
As is the modern way, this release was recorded in three different cities and cut and pasted together to create...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014
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