Mildred Bailey: The Queen of Swing 1929-1947
Devotees of Mildred Bailey could once obtain all her recordings in chronological order on the now defunct French Classics series....
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good
Alvin Queen | Carlton Holmes | Danton Boller
Queen, now 74, first made good in New York, before settling in Switzerland in 1979. Always impressive, he continues to...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2024
Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus: Barefoot In Bryophyte
Anja Lauvdal | Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson | Hans Hulbækmo | Mari Kvien Brunvoll | Stein Urheim
Norway’s much remarked, now venerable declaration of folk-based jazz independence blooms into blissful new dimensions with this first collaboration between...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2025
Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton: 'Round Midnight
Chuck Riggs | Harry Allen | Joel Forbes | Rossano Sportiello | Scott Hamilton
Hearing these two together, like master and pupil, at Norwich recently was a joy. And so it is here. Neither...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012
Joe McPhee: Black Is The Color
Now 80, Joe McPhee remains such a vital presence, live and in the studio, that it would be easy to...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: December/2020
Lou Rawls: Black and Blue
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago with Sam Cooke (who was three years his elder) and the Staple...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017
Emily Francis Trio: Luma
Emily Francis | Jamie Murray | Trevor Boxall
It’s been a while since the Emily Francis Trio’s debut The Absent (2015), and Luma’s leap forward illustrates the ever-morphing...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2022
Billie Holiday: Travelin’ Light: Classic Recordings 1939-1951
Compiler Tony Rounce’s 25-track selection represents what he says is ‘a splendid overview of the best of 1940s (and early...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2025
Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore Recordings
Billie Holiday | Frankie Newton
A complete Commodore set by vocalist Billie Holiday was actually released by Universal in 1997, so is long out of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Are you a Red man? Or perhaps that audacious, eponymous debut remains your fave Crims outing. But for many Larks’...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
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