Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Begins
Even casual observers will not have failed to notice the considerable amount of GSH material now available on CD. Yet...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013
World's Experience Orchestra: The Beginning Of A New Birth
There's obscure, and then there are records like this. Details are sketchy but it's reckoned that this session was recorded...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014
Michael Gibbs/Gary Burton: Festival 69
When these 1969 live recordings were made, the composer and trombonist Michael Gibbs had left his birthplace in what was...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Keyon Harrold: The Mugician
Having racked up impressive sideman credits with the likes of Gregory Porter, Marcus Strickland and Robert Glasper, trumpeter Harrold makes...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
David Sanborn: Sanborn
Two slices of Sanborn from very different eras. The eponymous recording (his second release) finds the young gun fresh and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014
Mike Westbrook & Company: The Uncommon Orchestra A Bigger Show Live
It shouldn’t be allowed. At an age when they should be revelling in their Freedom Passes, the Westbrooks refuse to...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016
Various Artists: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue
This wide-ranging curio goes back to the early days of microgroove, via a famous French label (though most of the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: All Can Work
Two Grammy-nominated releases – A Blessing in 2006 and Eternal Interlude in 2009 – is not bad going for a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra: The BBC Transcription Recordings Volume 2 & Volume 3
Volume One in this series of transcription discoveries was reviewed in our May 2015 issue. As before, these two further...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans
A fascinating project that exhumes previously unrecorded scores by Evans, for a top-ranking New York personnel. Five of them were...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
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