Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions of Django Reinhardt
There have been numerous attempts to produce box sets that cover the range of Django Reinhardt’s work. Among examples reviewed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2019
Cannonball Adderley/Sérgio Mendes: Cannonball Adderley with Sérgio Mendes & the Bossa Rio Sextet
Strange retitlings and strange bedfellows in the bonus material of these two CDs, but also some fine music. The main...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020
Ken Peplowski: Maybe September
Ken Peplowski | Martin Wind | Matt Wilson | Ted Rosenthal
Peplowski has found a distinctive way to play on both his instruments. His clarinet, extensively featured on this scintillating new...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013
Phil Woods: Rights of Swing
The title suggests that Phil Woods’ first extended composition, a five-movement jazz suite, might owe something to Stravinsky’s Rite of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2023
Osian Roberts: Bop Viveur
Jeremy Brown | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Rob Barron
By naming their jointly-founded label as they did, Roberts and the Fishwick brothers made clear their creative intentions and haven’t...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Grant Green & Ike Quebec: Complete Instrumental Sessions
Originally introduced to Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff as a talent scout, assistant producer, studio manager and...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014
Charles Mingus: Complete Live At The Bohemia 1955
Not often described as essential, this excellent two-hour-plus live session done for Mingus and Roach’s Debut label is doubtless overlooked...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2018
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Meet Me At Minton's
Grammy-nominated composer and producer, pianist and ex-folk singer Hopkins, a Californian who moved over to New York in 2000, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017
Grover Washington Jnr: The Defnitive Collection
Bob James | Eric Gale | Gary King | Grover Washington Jnr | Ralph McDonald | Richard Tee
The late Philadelphian may have spawned countless inane imitators who micro-waved the tailend of his career in the mid-1990s, which...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott Lafaro | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick
Following up the expanded publicdomain reissue of Portrait In Jazz on their Poll Winners label (see Jazzwise 151), EJC have...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012
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