Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Trio: The Complete 1972 Berlin Jazz Concert

Alan Dawson | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Jack Six | Paul Desmond

The Mulligan, Desmond, Brubeck package toured Europe in October/November 1972, resulting in the album Together Again for the First Time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of the USA

Benny Goodman | Bobby Hackett | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Joe Morelloe | Norman Bates | Paul Desmond

Jazz Impressions of the USA was Brubeck’s second studio session for Columbia, recorded November 1956 (albeit ‘Home at Last’, the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Quincy Jones/Harry Arnold: Big Band = Jazz!

This US/Swedish band from 1958 is the high point of Quincy's work as a jazz bandleader and arranger and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Peter Jones: Under the Setting Sun

A suave yet delicate-toned, London-based hep singer-songwriter, who’s especially indebted to the late Mark Murphy, has capable support from a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Quincy Jones: Four Classic Albums Plus

If you don't have the reissues of This is How I Feel and Great Wide World from Fresh Sound, Pollwinners,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Teddy Wilson Trio with Jo Jones: Complete Studio Recordings

This is a complete clone of the 3CD set last out from Essential Jazz Classics of Wilson's fine trio recordings...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Miles Davis: The Lost Concert

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Chick Corea | Dave Holl | Deron Jackson | Jackie McLean | Joe “Foley” McCreary | Joe Zawinul | John McLaughlin | John Scofield

Davis studiously avoided revisiting his distinguished past until the final year of his life. But on 8 July, 1991, amid...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Sachal Studios Orchestra: Jazz and All That In Memory of Dave Brubeck

Ballu Khan | Derek Watkins | John Parracelli | Nafees Ahmed Khan | Najaf Ali | Rafiq Ahmed

The Sachal Studios Orchestra comprises musicians from Pakistan playing traditional instruments plus three cellos and three desks of violins. It...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Devin Gray/Ellery Eskelin/Dave Ballou/Michael Formanek: Dirgo Rataplan

Dave Ballou | Devin Gray | Ellery Eskelin | Michael Formanek

Although just 28-yearsold, Gray is mature enough to see himself as a “musician-drummer rather than a drummer-drummer”, and in this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012

Dave Brubeck: Live in Europe

Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Bob McCracken | Cozy Cole | Earl Hines | Jack Teagarden | Louis Armstrong | Marty Napoleon | Sid Catlett | Trummy Young

Originally on Columbia and supplemented here with a 1956 session, this is the 1958 classic Desmond/Wright/Morello quartet on one if...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020