Frank Morgan & George Cables: Montreal Memories
Frank Morgan’s discography opens in 1953 with a Prestige date for Teddy Charles. Two years later, hailed as the new...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2019
Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine + Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call
The easy headline with The Last Call is that this is Coryell's last concert recording; within weeks he was dead....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021
Tubby Hayes: Hip! The Untold Story of Tubby Hayes 1965
R&B Records has a habit of delving into the dark recesses of long-gone jazz radio and they’ve done it again...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022
Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn
Dexter Gordon | Kenny Drew | Larry Marable | Leroy Vinnegar
In a perfect world, had things not gone all possession, penitentiary and parole boards, the 1950s could have been Dexter...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
Yellowjackets: Parallel Motion
Bob Mintzer | Dane Alderson | Jean Baylor | Russel Ferrante | uncredited | Will Kennedy
Enjoyable as the last two ‘Jackets albums have been - the vocals-rich Raising Our Voice, and the orchestral partnership with...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022
Colin Webster/Andrew Lisle/Otto Willberg: Static Garbled Dreams
Andrew Lisle | Colin Webster | Otto Willberg
Though Webster has worked separately with both Lisle and Willberg before, it comes as something of a surprise to learn...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019
Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Columbia Singles As & Bs 1949-53
Bennie Green | Jimmy Jones | Miles Davis | Sarah Vaughan
Released in 2018, Acrobat’s impressive 2CD anthology Sarah Vaughan – The Early Years 1944-48 brought together 49 tracks which Vaughan...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2020
Amanda Whiting: The Liminality of Her
Aidan Thorne | Amanda Whiting | Chip Wickham | Jon Reynolds | Mark O’Connor | PEACH.
The Liminality ofHer is the third album by increasingly prolific Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting, following on from her Jazzman Records...
Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: April/2024
Bobby Shew Quintet: Class Reunion
Bill Mays | Bob Magnusson | Bobby Shew | Gordon Brisker | Steve Schaeffer
This is the moment that Bobby Shew (who had moved to LA earlier in the decade) took the decision to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018
Soweto Kinch: Nonagram
Gregory Hutchinson | Nick Jurd | Ruben James | Soweto Kinch
Kinch's 2014 The Legend Of Mike Smith was predicated on the seven deadly sins and this latest offering from the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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