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

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

Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation

Bill O'Connell | Donald Edwards | Kenny Davis | Ralph Bowen

One-time OTB (Out of the Blue) member and now a highly respected Professor at Rutgers University, Ralph Bowen (like Jerry...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2014

Dave Liebman: Fire

Dave Holland | Dave Liebman | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Werner

This album makes it impossible not to circle around the well-used cliché about how the texture, taste and bouquet of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Gil Scott-Heron & Amnesia Express: Legend In His Own Mind

Alonzo Bailey | Ed Brady | Gil Scott-Heron | Glenn ‘Astro’ Turner | Kenny Powell | Larry McDonald | Ron Holloway | Vernon James

Although his work in the 1970s cemented his place in the pantheon of modern black music, Gil Scott-Heron was still...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023

Alex Riel: Alex Riel in New York

Alex Riel | Chris Minh Doky | Eddie Gomez | Jerry Bergonzi | Kenny Werner | Michael Brecker | Mike Stern | Niels Lan Doky

In the 1950s, Denmark was home to a small scale but highly creative jazz scene and talented local musicians such...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

Mark Murphy: Midnight Mood

Åke Persson | Derek Humble | Francy Boland | Jimmy Deuchar | Jimmy Woode | Kenny Clarke | Mark Murphy | Ronnie Scott | Sahib Shihab

In the company of eight musicians from the fabled Kenny Clarke/ Francy Boland Big Band, who recorded a number of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2018

Filomena Campus and Giorgio Serci: Scaramouche

Adriano Adewale | Filomena Campus | Giorgio Serci | Keld String Ensemble | Kenny Wheeler | Rowland Sutherland

Guitarist Giorgio Serci and vocalist Filomena Campus, two Sardinian musicians resident in the UK, have created a captivating cycle of...

Reviewed by Charles Alexander in issue: May/2015

Charlie Parker: Five Classic Albums

Al Haig | Art Taylor | Buddy Rich | Charlie Parker | Curley Russell | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Lamond | Hank Jones | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach

The second half of Parker’s studio output was all done for Norman Granz, including the famous Afro-Latin sessions that are...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020

Carlos Garnett: The New Love/Cosmos Nucleus/Let This Melody Ring On

Alphonse Mouzon | Anthony Jackson | Carlos Garnett | Cecil McBee | Guilherme Franco | Howard King | Hubert Eaves | Kenny Kirkland | Neil Clarke | Olu Dara

Although less well known than Billy Cobham, Carlos Garnett is the other Panamanian who came to prominence in the jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015