John Coltrane: The Heavyweight Champion: the Complete Atlantic Recordings
Originally compiled in 1995, this standard resource is now available at about half the price and in a slimmer package,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Cannonball Adderley: ‘Dis Here’
At this stage in the game, there's no real need to analyse Cannonball's virtues at any great length to learned...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2011
David Amram: Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016
This 5CD box packs in an enthrallingly diverse selection of musical polymath extraordinaire David Amram’s compositions and recordings, which tellingly...
Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: March/2016
Lester Young: Four Classic Albums – Second Set
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
Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble: A Trumpet in the Morning
Marty Ehrlich's arrangements for his disciplined, brass-heavy 15-piece ensembles remind me of the genre-crossing blends that the experimental big bands...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2014
Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie/Kansas City 7/Atomic Basie/Basie Plays Hefti
A slightly disparate group of albums, all arranged by Hefti except for the lightweight 1962 septet that, apart from covering...
Reviewed by Brian Brian in issue: July/2015
Charles Mingus: Live In Europe 1975
For the seasoned Mingus freak, the most interesting material has to be the DVD, consisting of the closing set of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2015
Charles Mingus: Mingus Moods
A welcome follow-up to Proper's The Young Rebel box, which I compiled, covering the first decade of Mingus's career, but...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Ben Webster: The Warm Moods
I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
This is the final part of an Ardley trilogy, preceded by two highly collectable British jazz vinyl albums, Greek Variations...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
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