John Coltrane: The Pianists' Touch
It’s a good month for studio-recorded Coltrane, the Phoenix album combining his Prestige outings Mating Call and The Cats, originally...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013
Duke Ellington: Far East Suite
With Sony giving the RCA Victor catalogue the same treatment as the Columbia/Legacy series, there could hardly be a better...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus
These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2018
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor: Sax Supreme: The Singles and Albums Collection 1949-58
Not much remembered these days, Taylor was the direct predecessor of King Curtis, in terms of building a solo reputation...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2023
Youn Sun Nah: She Moves On
Brad Jones | Dan Rieser | Jamie Saft | Marc Ribot | Youn Sun Nah
This latest studio album from the South Korean vocalist Youn Sun Nah is marked by a new band – it...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017
The Benny Green Trio: Benny's Crib
Aaron Kimmel | Anne Drummond | Benny Green | David Wong | John Jones | Veronica Swift
By the time he was 30, Green had played piano for Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2020
King Curtis Quintet: The New Scene Of King Curtis/Soul Meeting
Many Jazzwise readers may only know King Curtis for his ‘yakity’ sax breaks on numerous hit R&B singles by The...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Porgy and Bess
Never absent from the reissue lists for long, this Ella-Louis collaboration remains a considerable achievement for both principals as well...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2018
Mark de Clive-Lowe & Friends: Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders
Promises, the great Pharoah Sanders’ collaboration with Floating Points was a notable album of 2021, and a consolidation of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022
Steve Turre: Spiritman
Bruce Williams | Chembo Corniel | Gerald Cannon | Steve Turre | Willie Jones III | Xavier Davis
Smoke Sessions' second studio album features the often underrated Turre, usually a HighNote artist, and a very blues-conscious band playing...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2015
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