Review of Various Artists: Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions

Various Artists: Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions

Aaron Bel | Ben Richardson | Bennie Green | Benny Morton | Benny Powell | Bobby Donaldson | Bobby Henderson | Buck Clayton | Buddy Tate | Clarence Johnson

Mosaic

Rating: ★★★★★

Mosaic’s carefully curated new set comes with the usual learned commentary (this time by Thomas Cunliffe) and is a wonderful...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025

Review of Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin: Studio and Live Collaborations 1960-62

Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin: Studio and Live Collaborations 1960-62

Al Richman | Arnette Sparrow | Art Davis | Benny Carter | Bob Cunningham | Britt Woodman | Candido Camera | Cannonball Adderley | Carl Warwick | Carmen Costa

Acrobat CD 3408

Rating: ★★★

When Dizzy Gillespie’s big band went on a State Departmemt tour of Argentina in 1960, the trumpeter was so impressed...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022

Review of Cab Calloway: The Hi-De-Ho Man 1930-1952

Cab Calloway: The Hi-De-Ho Man 1930-1952

Al Gibson | Al Morgan | Alexander Smallens | Andy Brown | Arville Harris | Ben Webster | Bennie Payne | Bob Dorsey | Buford Oliver | Cab Calloway

Retrospective

Rating: ★★★★

Two years after the Acrobat Calloway collection (reviewed in Jazzwise, July 2022), along comes another 2-CD set, that somehow squeezes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024

Review of Dinah Washington: Queen of the Blues – A Centenary Tribute

Dinah Washington: Queen of the Blues – A Centenary Tribute

Arnett Cobb | Barry Galbraith | Bill Settles | Billy Bauer | Billy Mackell | Candido Camero | Cecil Payne | Charles Mingus | Charlie Harris | Charlie Shavers

Retrospective

Rating: ★★★★

Hard on the heels of the Retrospective centenary tribute to Sarah Vaughan (reviewed in Jazzwise August 2024) comes a companion...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/2024

Review of Cab Calloway: All The Hits and More 1930-56

Cab Calloway: All The Hits and More 1930-56

Ed Mullins | Al Gibson | Al Morgan | Andy Brown | Arville Harris | Ben Webster | Bennie Payne | Buford Oliver | Cab Calloway | Chauncey Haughton

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★

Compiling a collection on the basis of ‘hits’, using the post-1936 Billboard ‘Hit Parade’ (and similar unofficial charts) and then...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022

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