Buck Clayton: Complete Legendary Jam Sessions – Master Takes
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
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
Miles Davis: Quintet & Sextet
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
David Ornette Cherry: Organic Nation Listening Club (The Continual)
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
Ernie Henry: The Last Sessions
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
Charles Mingus: Landmark Albums 1956-60
Having warned in Jazzwise 275 that my reissue of the year “may not be for Mingus beginners”, here is the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Howard McGhee: The Howard McGhee Collection 1945-53
Howard McGhee could play fast and high, sweet and low, and any point in between, and might have enjoyed a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2020
Laura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In
Dinosaur's increasingly assertive fusion explorations, with Laura Jurd as their benign, Hampshire Miles, have dominated the trumpeter's recent career. Taking...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2019
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