Album Interview: Lizz Wright: Grace

David Pitch | Jay Bellerose | Kenny Banks Sr | Lizz Wright | Marvin Sewell

This sixth studio album from Lizz Wright presents a number of key firsts for the Georgia-born vocalist and songwriter. Most...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2017

Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game

Johnny Coles | Kenny Drew | Philly Joe Jones | Tina Brooks | Wilbur Ware

Quite why Alfred Lion chose to hold back three out of four albums he recorded with tenor saxophonist Harold Floyd...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2021

John Dankworth Orchestra: Composition With Colour: Live 1971

Bruce Graham | Chris Spedding | David Horler | Don Fay | Duncan Lamont | Henry Lowther | John Dankworth | John Jenkins | Kenny Clare | Kenny Wheeler

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

Carmen Lundy: Changes

Anthony Wonsey | Carmen Lundy | George Bohanon | Jamison Ross | Kenny Davis | Nolan Shaheed | Oscar Castro-Neves

In an age in which every chanteuse fresh out of music college thinks themselves to be Billie Holiday, a new...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2012

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Complete Concert at Club Saint-Germain

Art Blakey | Benny Golson | Bobby Timmons | Gana M'Bow | Jymie Merritt | Kenny Clarke | Lee Morgan

This session should be better known and, despite being recorded 60 years ago, I believe this is the first time...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2018

John Taylor Sextet: Fragment

Chris Laurence | Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann | Tony Levin

This very welcome blast from the past is well- recorded, and had it been released by the EMI Lansdowne Jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Dexter Gordon: The Squirrel: Live at the Montmartre Copenhagen ‘67

Art Taylor | Bo Stief | Dexter Gordon | Kenny Drew

This numbered, two-LP set packaged in an attractive gatefold was a release for Record Store Day. It's an inspired choice....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)

Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Kenny Clarke | Pete LaRoca | Sonny Rollins

In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2024

Kenny Drew: I Love Jerome Kern/Jazz Impressions of Pal Joey

Drew's two Riverside ‘songbook’ albums from 1957 are collated here into an exquisitely tasteful and beautifully played example of piano...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Kenny Clarke: Plays The Arrangements of Hodeir, Chevallier, Michelot and Boland

A snapshot of Parisian jazz in the 1950s, Hodeir's charts are suffused with classical ideas, Michelot's swing instinctively, Chevallier's are...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016