Review of Miles Davis: Quintet & Sextet

Miles Davis: Quintet & Sextet

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Hank Mobley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland | Wynton Kelly

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

To get the easy bit out of the way first, Quintet & Sextet is a compilation of tracks recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Review of David Ornette Cherry: Organic Nation Listening Club (The Continual)

David Ornette Cherry: Organic Nation Listening Club (The Continual)

Crystal Blackcreek Carlisle | David Ornette Cherry | Gemi Taylor | Hummingbird | Joe Janiga | John L. Price | Kenichi Iwasa | Nadene Rasmussen | Naima Karlsson | Ollie Elder Jr

Spiritmuse CD-SPM-006

Rating: ★★

Multi-instrumentalist David Ornette Cherry was born the same year that his father, Don Cherry, and namesake, Ornette Coleman, recorded the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Review of Ernie Henry: The Last Sessions

Ernie Henry: The Last Sessions

Art Taylor | Benny Golson | Cecil Payne | Ernie Henry | G.T. Hogan | Henry | Kenny Dorham | Kenny Drew | Lee Morgan | Melba Liston

Fresh Sound

Rating: ★★★★

Of the many young bebop saxophonists to be inspired and infl uenced by Charlie Parker, perhaps one of the most...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2012

Review of Miles Davis/John Coltrane: Complete Studio Recordings: The Master Takes

Miles Davis/John Coltrane: Complete Studio Recordings: The Master Takes

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Michel Legrand | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland | Wynton Kelly

Omnia

Rating: ★★★★

It makes good marketing sense to reprise the joint studio work of Davis and his then employee, as a change...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2015

Review of Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Barry Harris | Buddy Montgomery | Harold Land | Joe Gordon | Lawrence Marable | Louis Hayes | Melvin Rhyne | Monk Montgomery | Paul Parker

Jazz Images

Rating: ★★★★

This wasn't, of course, Montgomery's debut album – he'd already taped sets for Pacific Jazz in the co-led Montgomery Brothers...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2019

Review of Joe Harriott: The Joe Harriott Story

Joe Harriott: The Joe Harriott Story

Bobby Orr | Buddy Pipp's Highlifers | Coleridge Goode | Dill Jones | Frank Holder | Hank Shaw | Harry South | Jack Fallon | Joe Harriott | Johnny Weed

Proper

Rating: ★★★★★

The legendary status of the late Jamaican alto saxophonist can be ascribed, for the most part, to his groundbreaking solo...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Review of Mal Waldron: Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note Vol.2

Mal Waldron: Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note Vol.2

Anthony Braxton | Bill Osborne | Buell Neidlinger | Chico Freeman | David Friesen | Ed Thigpen | Enrico Rava | Isla Eckinger | Judi Silvano | Kim Parker

Soul Note

Rating: ★★★

The distinctive, even oppressive, tone of Waldron's playing might seem burdensome when stretched over a box of 11 albums. (And...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017

Review of John Coltrane: Trane 90

John Coltrane: Trane 90

Art Blakey | Art Taylor | Cannonball Adderley | Cecil Taylor | Dizzy Gillespie | Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | George Russell | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Garrison

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

This well-organised look at the middle decade of Coltrane's career takes its title from the fact that he would have...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017

Review of Buck Clayton: Complete Legendary Jam Sessions – Master Takes

Buck Clayton: Complete Legendary Jam Sessions – Master Takes

Al Waslohn | Bennie Green | Benny Powell | Billy Butterfield | Billy Kyle | Bobby Donaldson | Buck Clayton | Buddy Tate | Charlie Fowlkes | Coleman Hawkins

Solar

Rating: ★★★★★

Three CDs in a cardboard slip-case, just another public domain release by an Andorra-based label and largely lifted from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011

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