Stan Getz: Complete Columbia Albums Collection
It’s debatable whether you’d need to buy Getz’s Columbia albums until after you’ve acquired his output for all the other...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2013
Beats & Pieces Big Band: Good Days
As with all other aspects of social-cultural life, the pandemic put the brakes on Ben Cottrell's much-admired Manchester-based Beats &...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2023
Abbey Lincoln: Straightahead
This is one of the great political and cultural statements made by African-Americans during the civil rights era. Apart from...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012
Stan Getz: Four Classic Albums Focus/West Coast Jazz/The Soft Swing/Cool Velvet
No matter the genre Focus – the masterwork that Eddie Sauter devised as a showcase for Stan Getz in 1961...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2012
Robert Glasper: Black Radio (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
By the time he made Black Radio in 2012, Robert Glasper was one of the biggest new names in jazz,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: The Duke at Fargo 1940
Danish label Storyville last issued their double-CD of this legendary ‘live’ Ellington dance date in 2000, labelled reasonably enough as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2013
Curtis Amy: Groovin' Blue/Way Down/Tippin' On Through
Ever since I first acquired a vinyl of TheBlues Message back in the 1960s, I’ve had a warm affection for...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013
Ornette Coleman: The Music Of Ornette Coleman/Skies Of America
Although he has been one of the great soloists and small group bandleaders in the history of jazz, Coleman has...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012
Randy Weston: Four Classic Albums Vol.1 & Vol.2
One of the great champions of Afro-jazz, or as he himself states more explicitly, African rhythms in jazz, Weston drank...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015
Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached
Although she didn’t ‘invent’ the jazz harp – that distinction probably belongs to Casper Reardon (1907-41) or Adele Girard (1913–1993)...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2023
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