Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble: Hard Luck Soul
There’s not too much information available on this rarity but, as the title suggests, it purports to be a recording...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2011
Mike Stern: Trip
The story behind this album may be inspiring, but the music itself has to stand or fall on its own...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2017
Various Artists: Northern Edition: Curated by Fiona Talkington
This anthology of mainly Scandinavian jazz, or jazz from the north, curated by BBC Radio presenter Fiona Talkington, all taken...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2016
Album Interview: Jamie Saft: The New Standard
Bobby Previte | Jamie Saft | Steve Swallow
Pianist/keyboardist Jamie Saft is pretty much the quintessence of the iconoclastic downtown New York jazz musician, if such a thing...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Cab Calloway: The Hi-De-Ho Man 1930-1952
Two years after the Acrobat Calloway collection (reviewed in Jazzwise, July 2022), along comes another 2-CD set, that somehow squeezes...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024
Tubby Hayes: Four Classic Albums Plus
With both the 90th anniversary of Hayes’ birth looming next year, and the much talked-of ‘Golden Age’ of British modern...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2024
Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights On A Satellite
By way of marking Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen’s 100th trip around the sun, Lights On A Satellite is...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/2024
Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World
This album, cut in the slipstream of the iconic Expansions has aged very well, consolidating any claim Smith might want...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
Mark Masters Ensemble: Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster
The California-based arranger Masters has addressed Ellingtonia before. Now his expanded Ensemble is tackling the compositions recorded when that marvellous...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021
Bill Bruford: Earthworks Complete
This is how you tell the story of a band. Bruford has curated this box set with a diligence and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
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