Erroll Garner: Dreamstreet

Alvin Stoller | Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Keith Mitchell | Kelly Martin

Erroll Garner couldn't read a note of music. Not that it affected his career a jot. His Concert By The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Illinois Jacquet: Five Classic Albums: The Kid and The Brute/Swing's The Thing/Illinois Flies Again/Illinois Jacquet Col

Al Lucas | Arnette Sparrow | Art Blakey | Barry Galbraith | Ben Webster | Budd Johnson | Carl Perkins | Cecil Payne | Chano Pozo | Ernie Henry

To paraphrase Private Eye's Glenda Slagg – Illinois Jacquet… crazy name, crazy guy! Be that as it may, from the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2012

Jimi Hendrix: Both Sides of The Sky

Billy Cox | Buddy Miles | Dallas Taylor | Jimi Hendrix | Johnny Winter | Lonnie Youngblood | Mitch Mitchell | Noel Redding | Stephen Stills

This third volume, in what is referred to as a trilogy of Hendrix archive releases covering 2010's Valleys of Neptune...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2018

Fats Waller: All the Hits and More 1922-1943

Al Casey | Arnold Boling | Arthur Trappier | Ben Whitted | Bill Coleman | Billy Taylor | Bob Carroll | Bobby Williams | Cedric Wallace | Charlie Turner

If you’ve never had access to a collection of Fats Waller’s work, both as a solo pianist and as the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024

Freddie Hubbard: Complete Blue Note & Impulse! ’60s Studio Sessions

Art Davis | Big Black | big-band | Bob Cranshaw | Cedar Walton | Clifford Jarvis | Curtis Fuller | Eddie Khan | Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy

The enclosed essay by Bob Blumenthal reminds us that three promising 1960s trumpeters all emerged in 1938: Hubbard, Booker Little...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

John Coltrane: Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Edition)

John Coltrane

I knew someone would eventually jump on this anniversary idea (it's been around in the classical and the wider arts...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2020

Miles Davis Quintet: Four Classic Albums

This famous material was last reissued as recently as last year, and reviewed enthusiastically in Jazzwise 242. That release on...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Bill Evans: The Quiet Passion of Bill Evans

Art Farmer | Bill Evans | Bill Potts | Bob Brookmeyer | Cannonball Adderley | Charles Mingus | Chet Baker | Chuck Israels | Dave Pike | Dick Garcia

As if it was necessary to underline the individuality, but also the versatility, of the young Evans, here is a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2017

Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Aaron Bell | Arvell Shaw | Billy Bauer | Clark Terry | Claude Hopkins | Coleman Hawkins | Cozy Cole | Dave Bailey | Duke Ellington | Eddie Locke

Hawk had long wanted to record with Duke but it took 20 years to accomplish. Duke was supposed to have...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2014

Fat John Sextet: Honesty: The Unreleased 1963 Studio Session

Andy Azaria | Bix Duff | Chris Pyne | Danny Thompson | Dave Castle | Fat John Cox | John Mumford | John Pritchard | Pete Lemer | Ray Warleigh

Who? Well, Jazzwise readers of a certain age may remember drummer Fat John Cox as a stalwart of the early...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2019