Fela Ransome Kuti: And His Koola Lobitos

Fela Ransome Kuti

Such has been the seemingly endless flood of Fela Kuti reissues threatening to sweep us all away over the past...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2016

Bunk Johnson: Rare and Unissued Masters Vol.1 (1943-45)

Ten out of 16 tracks here see the light of day for the fi rst time, forming part of a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2015

Hannah Köpf: Cinnamon

Following her Joni Mitchell-inspired Lonely Dancer, this is the most persuasive account so far of this German singer-lyricist, with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Billie Holiday: Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944

Billie Holiday

Originally released in 2001 on Columbia/Legacy and winner of the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album, Lady Day: The...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2013

Kari Ikonen: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions

Kari Ikonen

This is an exemplary solo piano album, full of original twists made possible by a micro-tuning device trade marked by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Tim Warfield: Jazzland

Byron Landham | Daniel Sadownick | Pat Bianchi | Terell Stafford | Tim Warfield

This is one of those records that could easily be overlooked and fall through the floorboards – you know, another...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Feb/2019

Takuya Kuroda: Zigzagger

A Lee Morgan-influenced, Japanese-born New York-based trumpeter making a thoroughly contemporary album that takes its cues from J Dilla beats,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Lester Young: Four Classic Albums – Second Set

Art Taylor | Billy Mitchell | Connie Kay | Hank Jones | John Lewis | Lucky Thompson | Milt Hinton | Milt Jackson | Oscar Pettiford | Percy Heath

With one caveat, this is a very worthwhile collection comprising five 1940s sessions and two from the 50s, but thereby...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019

Roger Guerin: Le Formidable/Paris Meetings

This is just the kind of treasure Fresh Sound produces from time to time – a portrait of the brilliant...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Levitation Orchestra: Illusions & Realities

Axel Kaner-Lindstrom | Ayodeji Ijishakin | Beatriz Rola | Dilara Aydin-Corbett | Domenech Plana | Emma Barnaby | Hamish Nockles-Moore | Harry Ling | James Akers | Maria Osuchowska

Levitation Orchestra are a London jazz collective, 14 strong here, whose second album was composed by discussing ideas about childhood,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/January/2021/2022