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

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

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

Jazzline

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Quincy Jones Big Band: The Complete 1960 European Concerts

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

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Pirout Records

Rating: ★★★

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

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

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

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

Resonance

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

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

Greenleaf

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Dave Liebman | Michel Delville | Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco

MoonJune

Rating: ★★★★

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014

Review of John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway

John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway

Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | John Abercrombie

Editor's Choice

ECM Luminessence

Rating: ★★★★

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

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

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

JVG Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out Stereo and Mono Versions

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out Stereo and Mono Versions

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Green Corner Limited Edition

Rating: ★★★★★

The recent release of Atlantic box-set John Coltrane Mono was a significant response to the many listeners who now feel...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2016

Review of Kenny Barron/Dave Holland: The Art of Conversation

Kenny Barron/Dave Holland: The Art of Conversation

Dave Holland | Kenny Barron

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

These two giants got to the top early, Barron being 19 when he arrived with Gillespie, and Holland coming up...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

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