Joe Jackson: The Duke
It's to the Duke's everlasting credit that his music transcends whatever re-imaginings other artist's bring to it. Joe Jackson obviously...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012
Dexter Gordon: Go! + A Swingin‘ Affair
Oh dear. This is the sort of set that presents a reviewer with a moral dilemma. Should he or she...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2019
Charles Mingus: Reincarnations
To say this is a follow-up to the Incarnations compilation (reviewed in Jazzwise 297) is to simplify a fairly complex...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2025
Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961
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
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
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
Blue Mitchell & Orchestra: Smooth Is The Wind/A Sure Thing
Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell made up the front line of Horace Silver's wildly successful Quintet which between 1958 and...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014
Fontanelle: Vitamin F
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
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