Review of Charlie Watts/Danish Radio Big Band: Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band

Charlie Watts/Danish Radio Big Band: Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band

Charlie Watts | Dave Green | Gerard Presencer

Impulse! CD, LP, DL

Rating: ★★★★

Herein lies a tale. When Charlie Watts was talking to Gerard Presencer shortly after the trumpeter landed a job with...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2017

Review of AustraLYSIS: Dualling

AustraLYSIS: Dualling

Greg White | Hazel Smith | Phil Slater | Roger Dean | Sandy Evans

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★

As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

Review of Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger & The Trinity: Live At Montreux 1968

Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger & The Trinity: Live At Montreux 1968

Brian Auger | Clive Thacker | David Ambrose | Julie Driscoll

Repertoire

Rating: ★★★

Early adopters in fusing jazz with R&B and the multi-hued psychedelic directions surfacing in 1967, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: February/2025

Review of Elvin Jones and Richard Davis: Heavy Sounds

Elvin Jones and Richard Davis: Heavy Sounds

Billy Green | Elvin Jones | Frank Foster | Richard Davis

Impulse!/Verve By Request Series

Rating: ★★★

Originally conceived by Elvin Jones and bass virtuoso Richard Davis as a trio recording with guitarist Larry Coryell (who was...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2024

Review of Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping

Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping

Benjamin George Cook | Charles Stepney | Dorothy Ashby | Eddie De Haas | James Slaughter | Lennie Druss | Morris Jennings | Phil Upchurch | plus Chicago Symphony string section | Richard Evans

Verve

Rating: ★★★★★

If last year’s New Land box set With Strings Attached (see Jazzwise 287), helped reawaken interest in Dorothy Ashby, this...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024

Review of Chet Baker: Late Night Jazz

Chet Baker: Late Night Jazz

Chet Baker | Egil Kapstad | Jean-Louis Rassinfosse | Philip Catherine | Terje Venaas

Hot Club Records/Elemental

Rating: ★★★

The Paris session by Chet Baker for Hot Club Records was brought about by the confluence of two separate things:...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024

Review of Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Super Pop Montreux ‘70

Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Super Pop Montreux ‘70

Barry Dean | Brian Auger | Jim Mullen | Keith Bailey

Repertoire

Rating: ★★★

Early adopters in fusing jazz with R&B and the multi-hued psychedelic directions surfacing in 1967, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: February/2025

Review of Gerry Mulligan: The Concert Jazz Band

Gerry Mulligan: The Concert Jazz Band

Alan Raph | Bill Crow | Bill Takas | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Donovan | Buddy Clark | Conte Candoli | Danny Stiles | Dave Bailey | Dick Meldonian

Matchball

Rating: ★★★★

A good decade and a half after the Swing Era went bust, 1960 hardly seemed an auspicious time in which...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2019

Review of Janel Leppin & Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love

Janel Leppin & Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love

Anthony Pirog | Brian Settles | Janel Leppin | Larry Ferguson | Luke Stewart | Sarah Hughes

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★

Here's a pair of very different releases from the wondrous Cuneiform label, both of them featuring cellist Janel Leppin and...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2024

Review of Callum Allardice: Cinematic Light Orchestra

Callum Allardice: Cinematic Light Orchestra

Callum Allardice

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★

As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

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