Clifford Jordan: Four Classic Albums
Almost all the sleeve-note writers on the original albums here make something of Jordan's apparent Sonny Rollins influence. Listened to...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2020
Milt Jackson: Four Classic Albums – Second Set
Here's another of Avid's compilations of classic vinyl albums, the second such Jackson collection, taking in his Ballads and Blues,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2019
Arturo Sandoval: Dear Dizzy (Everyday I Think Of You)
Having outlived most of his trumpet-playing contemporaries, Dizzy chose to spend his sunset years embracing young bloods like Jon Faddis...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012
Sam Crockatt Quartet: Mells Bells
James Maddren | Kit Downes | Oli Hayhurst | Sam Crockatt
Saxophonist Sam Crockatt has always been the LOOP Collective member’s most natural post- bop traditionalist. But there’s no lack of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016
Digby Fairweather & Friends: To Frederick With Affection
Chris Gower | Digby Fairweather | Dominic Ashworth | Julian Marc Stringle | Len Skeat | Neil Bullock
The ever-enterprising Fairweather always seems to be on the lookout for fresh fields to conquer. And he usually succeeds. Here...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2013
Anders Helmerson Trio: Opus i
This power piano trio favour prog rock’s tricky time meters, percussive accents and densely arpeggiated trance-y piano and while it’s...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021
Dave Pietro: Hypersphere
Saxophonist Pietro heads a good quality large ensemble (that includes pianist Gary Versace and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin) through an airily...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra: Concerts in Miniature Volume 21-24
Few bands apart from Ellington have had such day by day, week by week documentation of their activities as Stan...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019
Nguyên Lê Quartet: Streams
Chris Jennings | Illya Amar | John Hadfield | Nguyên Lê
The Paris-born Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Lê has established one of the most standout, highly colourful project-based discographies on the ACT...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019
The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2
Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom
Following the satisfying Vol. 1 comes the understandably titled Vol. 2 of this band's exploration of ‘contrafacts’: new compositions built...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014
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