Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: Weightless

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tom Challenger

Riff Raff emerged out of North London’s Loop Collective and E17 Jazz, for whom Manington was an original member. Their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025

Jonah Jones: Jumpin' With Jonah + Jonah Jumps Again/Muted Jazz + Hit Me Again!

Four original Capitol LPs on 2 CDs presents the essence of Jonah Jones's slick quartet, which he turned into one...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Birdland 1951-52 & Newport 1955

Bob Bates | Chet Baker | Clifford Brown | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Herb Barman | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Max Roach | Paul Desmond

This is rare and valuable Brubeck; the sessions from Birdland were taken off the air by Boris Rose, who recorded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

Elvin Jones Jazz Machine: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach

The French series covers major figures by excerpting their work from a large number of albums and, since Elvin did...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Quincy Jones Big Band: The Complete 1960 European Concerts

Ake Persson | Benny Bailey | Budd Johnson | Buddy Catlett | Clark Terry | Clyde Reasinger | Floyd Standifer | Harold McNair | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cleveland

In the late 1950s Quincy Jones put together an all-star American big band to tour Europe as part of a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022

Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane

Billy Hart | Dave Liebman | Joe Lovano | Phil Markowitz | Ron McClure

Originally recorded in June 2007 for Jazz on 3 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Coltrane's death on 17 July...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2017

Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Dave Liebman is one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. He is also one of jazz great clinicians, educators and inspirational figures....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway

Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | John Abercrombie

Abercrombie had debuted as a leader in his own right on the ECM label in 1974 with a trio comprising...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2024

Judith & Dave O'Higgins Present: The Abstract Truth Big Band

Adrian Hallowell | Alistair White | Andy Greenwood | Chris Allard | Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Henry Armburg Jennings | Howard McGill | Judith O'Higgins

Oliver Nelson's aptly titled 1961 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth is such a perfectly-tuned iconic statement that it...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2015

Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

Andy Clausen | Anwar Marshall | Dave Douglas | Riley Mulherkar | Willem de Koch | Zubin Hensler

Douglas’ musical curiosity knows no boundaries: here he is in essentially an all brass chamber context, with the fabulously talented...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018