Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet: The Complete Sessions
In the October 2012 edition of this esteemed journal, I extolled the virtues of a double CD that bundled together...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018
Teddi King/Carol Sloane/Morgana King: Five Classic Albums
Choose three singers at random and bundle their work together – record production or expediency? The discs are all OK...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2020
John Coltrane and Friends: Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions
Representing a sensible way of mining the archive and sticking to tried and tested names this compilation contains every note...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session
The billing sounds highly significant, but the circumstances are more mundane. Plank, subsequently an influential producer through the likes of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2015
Miles Davis: On The Air 1958-1959
Many of these seven off-air recordings were originally on bootleg LPs, the best-known material being the frequently excerpted TV session...
Reviewed by Brain Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Gil Evans: Out Of The Cool
There appear to be two recent Universal reissues of OOTC, one with the five original tracks and one adding the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012
Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: This Is The Moment/Quiet Kenny/Inta Somethin'/Matador
Tough bootin’ tenor sax players and blues-wailin’ guitarists may immediately be associated with Texas, but it should be remembered that...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2013
Mundell Lowe: Five Classic Albums
Overshadowed by the likes of Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell and Tal Farlow, Lowe was a major league talent whose metier,...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2020
Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions
Preceded by the loss of Scott LaFaro, and Evans's subsequent depression and formation of the lower-key trio with Chuck Israels,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014
Jonny Mansfield: Elftet
This ambitious undertaking by 2018 Kenny Wheeler prize winner Jonny Mansfield, a percussionist who specialises in the vibes, marks the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019
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