Kenny Wheeler: The Complete Black Saint & Soul Note Recordings — Welcome

Aldo Romano | Bill Elgart | Billy Elgart | Claudio Fasoli | Daniel Humair | Dave Holland | Fasoli | Furio Di Castri | Jean-François Jenny Clark | John Taylor

Five CDs in a box – LPs in miniature, in fact. No notes added or booklet over-view provided. The initial...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

Poogie Bell Band: Suga Top

The main sticksman for Marcus Miller for nearly two decades has a monster-size backbeat and this incisive set, mixing funk,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018

Chad Taylor | Ches Smith | Curtis Fowlkes | Dave Eggar | Devin Hoff | Domenica Fossati | Doug Wieselman | Eric Heywood | Erik Friedlander | Fay Victor

Trump is beyond satire and shame, making artistic opposition seem hopeless. Social media’s intimate propaganda walls up minds that might...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Feb/2019

Zoe Francis: Remembering Blossom Dearie

Though she has a rather quaint kittenish tone, this jazz vocalist isn't short of character and makes up for what...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie/Kansas City 7/Atomic Basie/Basie Plays Hefti

Al Grey | Eric Dixon | Frank Foster | Frank Sinatra | Frank Wess | Joe Newman | Joe Williams | Lockjaw Davis | Marshall Royal | Neal Hefti

A slightly disparate group of albums, all arranged by Hefti except for the lightweight 1962 septet that, apart from covering...

Reviewed by Brian Brian in issue: July/2015

de tian: Transcriptome

Paul Shaft

Another day, another outré excursion featuring polymath – and Discus label head Martin Archer. This time, he's working with two...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2020

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Here We Go Again: Celebrating The Genius Of Ray Charles

Norah Jones | Willie Nelson | Wynton Marsalis

This follow-up to Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis's 2008 Blue Note album, Two Men With the Blues, sees the duo...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

Mike Baggetta Quartet: Small Spaces

A NY-based guitarist-composer with a warm, crunchy sound and a band equally adept at grooves or freeing up the pulse,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

John Coltrane: The Complete Ray Draper Sessions

Gil Coggins | John Coltrane | John Mayer | Larry Ritchie | Ray Draper | Spanky DeBrest

Both of these releases would have to be called not only early, but minor, Coltrane. Acrobat, to be fair, describe...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Paula Rae Gibson/Paul Jolly: Vestige

Paula Rae Gibson's sparsely-textured duo with 33 Records boss/reedsman Paul Jolly might be the most directly expressive vehicle yet for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019