Freddie Hubbard: Complete Blue Note & Impulse! ’60s Studio Sessions
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
Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet: String Theory
Glaswegian guitarist Jim Mullen recently reformed his quartet with Gareth Williams, Mick Hutton and Gary Husband for a Jazz Services-supported...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2015
Blazing Flame: Play High Mountain Top
It may be nonsense, but it is still sometimes said that all contemporary jazz sounds the same. That is not...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2014
Illinois Jacquet: Five Classic Albums: The Kid and The Brute/Swing's The Thing/Illinois Flies Again/Illinois Jacquet Col
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
Various Artists: Jazz & The Philharmonic
Not to be confused, of course, with Jazz At The Philharmonic, this altogether different beast can't be knocked in terms...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014
Dhafer Youssef: Street of Minarets
The tenth album from Tunisian vocalist and oud player Dhafer Youssef harks back to his stunning Electric Sufi, a 2001...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023
Fat John Sextet: Honesty: The Unreleased 1963 Studio Session
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
Randy Brecker: The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion
“Never look back” seemed one of Miles' more useful aphorisms. So you may question why Brecker would want to revive...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014
Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring Joe McPhee: Impressions of Po Music
As McPhee explains in his sometimes-poetic liner notes, the notion of ‘Po’ derives from the philosopher Edward de Bono –...
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2013
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: The Complete Lansdowne Recordings 1965-1969
Formed in late 1962, the Don Rendell/Ian Car Quintet made their debut for the independent Spotlite Label in January 1964,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
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