University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Ruby Suite
The University of Toronto orchestra pays tribute here to one of Canada's most distinctive jazz exports, trumpeter-composer Kenny Wheeler, with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017
Herbie Mann: Original Album Series
For years, Herbie Mann had been sneaking by without really finding his true niche. That was until 1963 when he...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016
Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon
In 1990 Sun Ra and his Arkestra were invited to play a prominent role at a Turkish music festival in...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015
Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden
In the past decade, the Coin Coin series has become a fascinating commentary on far-reaching African-American socio-cultural and political history....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023
Thelonious Monk Trio & Quartet: Unissued Live at Newport 1958-59
Previously available on the Gambit label (and reviewed in Jazzwise 127), this compilation combines three Newport appearances that helped to...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2013
Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures: Monday Nights Vol. 1
Gil Evans’s son, Miles, now in his fifties, has periodically kept alive the legacy of his father, and specifically of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2019
Kevin Eubanks: East West Time Line
This is very much a game of two halves, or an album of two sides, with the proviso that the...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: May/2017
Alan Barnes/Pat McCarthy Octet/Josie Moon: Fish Tales
The cover provides two glosses on the title of this disc: one begins ‘A Jazz Suite for Octet by Alan...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2017
Miles Davis: Walkin'
One of Miles' great early triumphs for Prestige, reissued here with additional Blue Note material from the same era –...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2020
Anne Lenner with Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans: Her 26 Finest 1932-1941
Here's a glimpse into the ‘Golden Age of British Dance Music’, defined as ‘the elegant era of the late 1930s...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
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