Review of Bob Brookmeyer: And Friends

Bob Brookmeyer: And Friends

Bob Brookmeyer | Elvin Jones | Gary Burton | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter | Stan Getz | Tony Bennett

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★

An old favourite for some listeners, and an unlikely curiosity for others. The leader, or perhaps producer Teo Macero, took...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Review of Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game

Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game

Johnny Coles | Kenny Drew | Philly Joe Jones | Tina Brooks | Wilbur Ware

Blue Note Tone Poet

Rating: ★★★★

Quite why Alfred Lion chose to hold back three out of four albums he recorded with tenor saxophonist Harold Floyd...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2021

Review of Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’

Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’

John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

Original Jazz Classics/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

The first in the new series of all-analogue remastered (by Kevin Gray), reissues of the old OJC label in facsimile...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2023

Review of Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter Quintet With Wynton Kelly & Lee Morgan

Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter Quintet With Wynton Kelly & Lee Morgan

Jimmy Cobb | Lee Morgan | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Wayne Shorter | Wynton Kelly

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

It’s almost as if Wayne Shorter had materialised from nowhere. A brief stint with Maynard Ferguson drew attention, but as...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2011

Review of Cannonball Adderley: Sophisticated Swing/Cannonball's Sharpshooters

Cannonball Adderley: Sophisticated Swing/Cannonball's Sharpshooters

Jimmy Cobb | Julian Cannonball Adderley | Junior Mance | Nat Adderley | Sam Jones

Cheesecake Records

Rating: ★★★

When Julian (and his brother Nat) rocked up in New York's Greenwich Village in 1955, he appeared to be the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014

Review of Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Bill McHenry | Chad Taylor | Darius Jones | Eric Revis | Justin Faulkner | Kris Davis

Pyroclastic Records

Rating: ★★★★

While developing an illustrious profile since 1997 as the bassist in the Branford Marsalis quartet, Eric Revis' achievements as an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Review of Jazz Passengers: April 1990

Jazz Passengers: April 1990

Bill Ware | Bradley Jones | Curtis Fowlkes | Edwin Jesus Rodriguez | Jim Nolet | Marc Ribot | Roy Nathanson

Radio Bremen

Rating: ★★★★

Being in the Jazz Passengers sounds like fun. The band began in 1987, emerging from John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, and...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2015

Review of Greg Spero: The Chicago Experiment: Revisited

Greg Spero: The Chicago Experiment: Revisited

Darryl Jones | Greg Spero | Jeff Parker | Joel Ross | Makaya McCraven | Marquis Hill

Ropeadope

Rating: ★★★

In the first decade of the 21st Century, Ropeadope launched a series of albums featuring sessions that brought together leading...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2023

Review of Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart

Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart

Boz Martin-Jones | David Swan | Joanna Burnheart | Jonny Wickham | Noel Langley

Ropedadope

Rating: ★★★

Burnheart is a German classical talent now living in London, whose conversion to jazz was refracted through Berlin techno. As...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020

Review of Cannonball Adderley Sextet: Complete Live In Tokyo 1963

Cannonball Adderley Sextet: Complete Live In Tokyo 1963

Cannonball Adderley | Joe Zawinul | Louis Hayes | Nat Adderley | Sam Jones | Yusef Lateef

Solar

Rating: ★★★★

Though his original two horns/three rhythm set-up served him well, Cannonball learned from his tour of duty with Miles that...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2015

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