Various Artists: The Complete BeeHive Sessions

Al Foster | Al Gafa | Arnett Cobb | Bill Hardman | Billy Taylor | Cecil Payne | Clifford Jordan | Curtis Fuller | Dave Holland | David Newman

Here is a forcible reminder that Wynton Marsalis didn’t start the back-to-hard-bop movement in the 1980s but, rather like Miles...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016

Mark Murphy: The Complete Decca Recordings

Mark Murphy | Ralph Burns

This brilliant Mark Murphy twofer couples Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go and marks the very beginning of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Jimmie Lunceford: Complete Decca Sessions

Claude Trenier | Dan Grissom | Eddie Durham | Eddie Wilcox | Gerald Wilson | Jimmie Lunceford | Jimmy Crawford | Joe Marshall | Joe Thomas | Paul Webster

Lunceford ran the highly popular big band that big band fans seem to have forgotten about. Maybe this has something...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2012

Noah Preminger/Broken Shadows/Gregory Tardy/Bill Frisell/Billy Lester/Kenny Werner/Hank Roberts: Newvelle Records: Seaso

Adopting a unique marketing strategy, first put into effect in 2015, Newvelle Records, co-founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

NYSQ: POWER of 10

David Berkman | Gene Jackson | Michael Janisch | Tim Armacost

NYSQ – that’s the New York Standards Quartet to you and me – scored a hit with their initial Whirlwind...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

Hadley Caliman

Bill Douglas | Clarence Becton | Hadley Caliman | John White Jnr | Larry Vuckovich

The Boplicity series is proving invaluable for the light it shines on the unknowns as well as the known quantities...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Lars Danielsson: Liberetto II

Cæcilie Norby | Dominic Miller | John Parricelli | Lars Danielsson | Magnus Öström | Mathias Eick | Tigran | Zohar Fresco

Bassist Lars Danielsson has a knack of forming great bands but it doesn't stop there – he somehow manages to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan/Buhaina's Delight

Art Blakey | Cedar Walton | Curtis Fuller | Freddie Hubbard | Jymie Merritt | Reggie Workman | Wayne Shorter

Eagle-eyed Jazzwise readers will note that I did an almighty blitz on Messengers releases by this lineup, not too long...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014

Rainbow Gravity

Bashiri Johnson | Bob Mintzer | Chris Pasin | David Sancious | David Spinozza | Jack DeJohnette | Mike Mainieri | Omar Hakim | Peter Erskine | Rachel Z

You can’t deny Petito his passion for all things 1970s on this jazz fusion retro fest: he hasn’t just assembled...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Joe Hertenstein: Scalene

Bobby Kapp | Brandon Lopez | Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | William Parker

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