Review of Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Don Alias | Harvey Brooks | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Zawinul | Lenny White | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Editor's Choice

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★

Just for the record, 2010 was the 40th Anniversary year of Bitches Brew, you haven't woken up in a time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Review of Fontanelle: Vitamin F

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

Andy Brown | Borg Norum | Brian Foote | Dave Carter | Gentry Densley | Hans Treuber | Jef Brown | Mat Morgan | Paul Dickow | Randall Dunn

Southern Lord

Rating: ★★★★

It's 10 years since Portland, Oregon's Fontanelle released an album, during which they've upgraded from ambient grooves to down and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2013

Review of Theo Travis: Songs From The Apricot Tree

Theo Travis: Songs From The Apricot Tree

Ancient Mariner | Dave Sturt | David Longdon | Gaddy Zerbib | Jack Haigh | Jakko Jakszyk | John Etheridge | Josh Williams | Reinaldo Ocando | Richard Salmon

Ethersounds

Rating: ★★★

Having already established himself in jazz, prog, rock and ambient music, multi-instrumentalist Theo Travis now seems to be planting his...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2021

Review of Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 3

Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 3

Dave Shepherd's Dixielanders | Denny Wright | Digby Fairweather | Digby Fairweather-Danny Moss Quintet | Keith Ingham | Lennie Hastings | Lennie Hastings Quartet | M&B Jam Session | Stan Barker | Susannah McCorkle

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

Volumes One and Two were reviewed in Jazzwise 251 and 269. Rather than re-visit those texts, let's look again at...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2023

Review of Louis Armstrong: Louis & The Good Book

Louis Armstrong: Louis & The Good Book

Barrett Deems | Billy Kyle | Dave McRae | Edmond Hall | Everett Barksdale | George Barnes | Hank D’Amico | Louis Armstrong | Mort Herbert | Nick Tragg

20th Century Masterworks

Rating: ★★★

Here’s an oddity in a discography peppered with all manner of strange twists and turns: the defiantly secular Satchmo tackles...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2023

Review of Ray Guntrip & Tina May: Mood in Blue

Ray Guntrip & Tina May: Mood in Blue

Bobby Cleall | Damian Hawker | Dave Harvey | Emily Hunter | Frank Dawkins | Gary Barnacle | Jack Birchwood | John Webb | Lawrence Fletcher | Nik Carter

Digimix Records

Rating: ★★★

Veteran pianist-composer Guntrip has evidently been a busy figure on the UK scene for many years, sometimes uniting with jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024

Review of Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Booker Ervin | Bud Powell | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Doug Watkins | Ed Shaughnessy | Eric Dolphy | Hall Overton | Horace Parlan | J.R. Monterose

Rhino/Atlantic

Rating: ★★★★

Like the Coltrane box reviewed this month, this comprehensive reissue from the mid-1990s is a classic of jazz history, now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of Album Interview: Fatoumata Diawara: Fatou

Album Interview: Fatoumata Diawara: Fatou

Fatoumata Diawara | Guimba Kouyate | Hilaire Penda | Jean Paul Jones | John Groncamps | Leon Richard | Moh Kouyate | Ousmane Keita | Seb Rochford | Sola Akingbola

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★

The Malian singer/songwriter and former backing vocalist Fatoumata Diawara – aka Fatou – is currently making waves with her sweet-voiced...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011

Review of John Coltrane: Blue Train + Lush Life

John Coltrane: Blue Train + Lush Life

Albert Heath | Art Taylor | Curtis Fuller | Donald Byrd | Earl May | John Coltrane | Kenny Drew | Lee Morgan | Louis Hayes | Paul Chambers

State of Art

Rating: ★★★★

In the past 20 years, there have been several reissues of this classic on its original Blue Note label including...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017

Review of Kenny Drew: Four Classic Albums Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio/This Is New/Talkin' & Walkin'/Pal Joey

Kenny Drew: Four Classic Albums Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio/This Is New/Talkin' & Walkin'/Pal Joey

Art Blakey | Curly Russell | Donald Byrd | G.T. Hogan | Hank Mobley | Joe Maini | Kenny Drew | Lawrence Marable | Leroy Vinnegar | Philly Joe Jones

Avid

Rating: ★★★

Though he recorded in the region of four-dozen albums under his own name, nowadays Kenny Drew is perhaps best known...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013

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