Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes
Back in 1985, there were rumours flying around that Buddy Rich's band was not what it once was. The gossip...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018
Elephant9: Arrival of the New Elders
Nikolai Hængsle | Ståle Storløkken | Torstein Lofthus
Welcome to an acid-free altered state. The fiery onslaught of 2019's twin double-live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, has...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021
Ebi Soda: Honk If You’re Sad
Youthful Brightonian quartet Ebi Soda bring some of the character of the bohos’ favourite coastal town into their take on...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: April/2022
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
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