Oscar Peterson: Exclusively For My Friends
Bobby Durham | Ed Thigpen | Louis Hayes | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Sam Jones
The six-volume Exclusively For My Friends set forged new standards of sound recording when it was originally released on vinyl...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
John Coltrane Quintet: Complete November 18, 1961 Paris Concerts
Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman
Like some of the other recordings from this first European tour, the sound quality isn't that of the original broadcast...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2014
Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus
Being reissued on purple vinyl doesn’t feel exactly the appropriate apotheosis of Pithecanthropus, whose programmatic title-track elaborates on Mingus’ storyline...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020
Ben Marc: Glass Effect
Ben Marc is a bassist, electronic producer and composer and the nom de plume of Neil Charles: a graduate of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2022
Art Pepper: Blues For The Fisherman
Art Pepper | Carl Burnett | Elvin Jones | George Cables | George Mraz | Milcho Leviev | Tony Dumas
When, in 1975, troubled Art Pepper came in from the cold for the very last time, he proceeded to tape...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Mark Weinstein: Latin Jazz Underground
Aruán Ortiz | Gerald Cleaver | Mark Weinstein | Rashaan Carter | Roman Diaz
Mark Weinstein, who secured a PhD in Philosophy at City University of New York in 1973, has an astonishing background...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2014
AP Big Band: Plays Radiohead
Clive Deamer, drummer for Get the Blessing and sometimes Radiohead, once told me how jazz figured in the latter's thinking,...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2021
Jimmy Cobb: Remembering U
Javon Jackson | Jimmy Cobb | Paolo Benedettini | Roy Hargrove | Tadataka Unno
Cobb, now 90 and still very active, has selected this engaging session as the debut release on his own label....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas: Valse Sinestre
Billy Drummond | Dayna Stephens | Dezron Douglas | Micah Thomas
Billy Drummond last released an album under his own name on the Criss Cross label in 1996 – Dubai featured...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2022
Various Artists: Black Jazz Records: The Complete Singles
Along with Tribe and Strata East, Black Jazz is part of the holy trinity of independent labels that documented the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024
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