Yellowjackets: Fasten Up
Bob Mintzer | Dane Alderston | Russell Ferrante | Will Kennedy
Most people file Yellowjackets under ‘fusion’, but they have always remained within touching distance of jazz, thanks to group founder...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2025
Purbayan Chatterjee: Abaad - Unbounded
As its English title suggests, this music heeds no boundaries of genre or geography. Abbad Unbounded has a dizzying reach,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021
David Binney: The Time Verses
Dan Weiss | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks | Jen Shyu | Shai Golan
The older he gets – and your reviewer is now in his 90th year – the more he worries about...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2017
Erroll Garner: Ready Take One
Ernest McCarty Jr | Erroll Garner | Jimmie Smith | Jose Mangual
There has only been one Erroll Garner in jazz. His style was so distinctive that anybody even thinking of basking...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Martial Solal: Martial Solal at Newport ‘63
Martial Solal | Paul Motian | Teddy Kotick
Pianist Martial Solal was born in Algeria and moved to Paris in February 1950 to further his career in jazz....
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Live In Brussels
Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Zoot Sims: At Ronnie Scott's 1961
‘Lost’ parliamentary dossiers aside… some years ago, I attempted to not only licence the entire Tony Hall-produced Tempo catalogue, but...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014
Billy Bang's Survival Ensemble: Black Man's Blues/New York Collage
Bilal Abdur Rahman | Billy Bang | Henry Warner | Khuwana Fuller | Rashid Bakr | William Parker
Rarely was a band as aptly named as the late Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble. Bang had been scarred by the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2011
Jutta Hipp: Lost Tapes/The German Recordings 1952-1955
Is this yet another take on the now hackneyed Svengali legend or just a B-movie scenario? On a visit to...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013
Don Byas Quartet: The Complete 1946-1954 Paris Recordings
Were it not for the efforts of Gilles Petard's now dormant French-based Classics label in documenting the recordings of Don...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013
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