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

Review of Mundell Lowe: Five Classic Albums

Mundell Lowe: Five Classic Albums

Al Haig | Art Taylor | Buddy Rich | Charlie Parker | Curley Russell | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Lamond | Hank Jones | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions

Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions

Art Taylor | Benny Golson | Bill Evans | Dannie Richmond | Freddie Hubbard | Gene Quill | Jim Hall | Jimmy Knepper | Oscar Pettiford | Percy Heath

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Jonny Mansfield: Elftet

Jonny Mansfield: Elftet

Boz Martin-Jones | Chris Potter | Dominic Ingham | Ella Hohnen-Ford | Gareth Lockrane | George Millard | James Davidson | Jonny Mansfeld | Kit Downes | Laura Armstrong

Edition

Rating: ★★★

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

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 Charles Mingus: Landmark Albums 1956-60

Charles Mingus: Landmark Albums 1956-60

Booker Ervin | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Horace Parlan | J.R. Monterose | Jackie McLean | Jean Shepherd | Jimmy Knepper | John Handy | Mal Waldron

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Howard McGhee: The Howard McGhee Collection 1945-53

Howard McGhee: The Howard McGhee Collection 1945-53

Charles Mingus | Charlie Parker | Dodo Marmarosa | Flip Phillips | Gigi Gryce | Hank Jones | Horace Silver | Howard McGhee | JC Heard | JJ Johnson

Acrobat Music

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Laura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In

Laura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In

Alex Paxton | Anja Lauvdal | Cecilia Bignall | Conor Chaplin | Corrie Dick | Elliot Galvin | Laura Jurd | Liz Exell | Mandhira De Saram | Martin Lee Thomson

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

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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