Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins Plays The Blues

A 2CD set that charts Sonny from 1951-58 as both leader and sideman. It makes up in breadth what it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard: Chano y Dizzy!

David Torres | Francisco Torres | George Ortiz | Joey De Leon Jr | Poncho Sanchez | Rob Hardt | Ron Francis Blake | Terence Blanchard | Tony Banda

The eminently worthy idea is to celebrate the pioneers Pozo and Gillespie together, and the resultant album gets off to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs 10

Ches Smith | Marc Ducret | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Tim Berne

For a band that features a good deal of New York composer/ saxophonist Tim Berne’s signature methods – knotty, muscular...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Two Faced

Ben Eunson | David Weiss | JD Allen | Kush Abadey | Matt Clohesy | Myron Walden | Nir Felder | Travis Reuter

Regular readers will remember the high regard with which this writer holds trumpeter/composer/arranger David Weiss, currently heavily involved with The...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

Jameszoo: Blind

Christian Lillinger | Diamanda La Berge Dramm | Dorian Concept | Evan Parker | John Dikeman | Julian Sartorius | Kit Downes | Matthew Bourne | Mitchel van Dinther | Neil Broos

As jazz and electronic musicians shuffle ever closer to one another’s sonic terrain, this meeting of minds and modular synths...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2022

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet: Griff & Lock - The Complete Studio Recordings 1960-1961

Ben Riley | Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis | Johnny Griffin | Junior Mance | Larry Gales

If author Damon Runyon had ever turned his pen to the jazz community, not only would he have probably conjured...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012

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