Lee Konitz: The Real Lee Konitz
The only problem with these two collectors' items is visual. Their packaging is in Japanese, with those tiny reproductions of...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2014
Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Relaxes
Had it not been for a succession of albums taped for Prestige and Riverside, it's possible that Coleman Hawkins might...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2012
George Adams: Sound Suggestions
Dave Holland | George Adams | Heinz Sauer | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Wheeler | Richard Beirach
Not only is this vintage George Adams, from a time when his playing was at its most fluent and inventive,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2019
John Surman: Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop
Despite the youthful appearance of the participants and their period clothing styles, the music comes up fresh and powerful. On...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2011
Dayna Stephens: Right Now! The Dayna Stephens Quartet Live At The Village Vanguard
Aaron Parks | Ben Street | Dayna Stephens | Gregory Hutchinson
DownBeat magazine's critics voted Dayna Stephens Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist in 2019, and since the elegantly powerful, Wayne Shorter-inspired American...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020
Michael Rodriguez: Reverence
Chris Cheek | Gerald Clayton | Kiyoshi Kitagawa | Michael Rodriguez | Rodney Green
One of the best releases in 2007 was Conversations on Savant by the Cuban-blooded but America-reared Rodriguez Brothers – trumpeter...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013
Diego Rivera: Indigenous
Boriz Kozlov | Diego Rivera | Donald Edwards | Etienne Charles | Helen Sung
New York saxophonist Rivera makes much of his Mexican heritage [he was named for painter Diego Rivera] in his compositional...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021
John Taylor Sextet: Eye To Eye: Live 1971
Chris Laurence | Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann | Tony Levin
Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyōbin
Dave Holland | Derek Bailey | Evan Parker | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler
It’s an alarming thought that the Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyōbin – widely considered to be a founding document of British...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018
Jimmy Smith Quartet: Back at the Chicken Shack/Midnight Special
Donald Bailey | Jimmy Smith | Kenny Burrell | Stanley Turrentine
The Hammond organ sound may be a commonplace part of today's musical landscape, but t'were not ever thus. At a...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014
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