Bob Brookmeyer: And Friends
Bob Brookmeyer | Elvin Jones | Gary Burton | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter | Stan Getz | Tony Bennett
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
Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game
Johnny Coles | Kenny Drew | Philly Joe Jones | Tina Brooks | Wilbur Ware
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
Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’
John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland
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
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
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet: In a World of Mallets
Austin Johnson | Dave Potter | Jason Marsalis | Will Goble
The youngest Marsalis brother is better known as a drummer, but being a member of that multi-talented family it should...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013
Rick Simpson: Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited
Dave Whitford | James Allsop | Rick Simpson | Tori Freestone | Will Glaser
On Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited, London-based pianist Rick Simpson (a member of bassist Michael Janisch's band...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: November/2020
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