Zoot Sims: New Beat Bossa Nova 1 and 2

Sims' light tenor dances over a gently swinging kitchen department, with additional guitar magic from Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Chris Corcoran Trio: The Getaway

A London-based blues guitarist who also leans towards R&B-jazz, in a trio set that reveals a range of influences including...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Kathrine Windfield Big Band: Aircraft

Danish pianist-composer Kathrine Windfield fronts a high-spirited contemporary swinging Euro jazz ensemble with Cannonball Adderley, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Live Snakes

From concerts recorded in 2011 and 2013, this Boston-based collective run by the saxophonist Ken Field (with guests Josh Roseman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

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

Various Artists: Ban The Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches

Acker Bilk | Chris Barber’s | Ewan MacColl | Geroge Melly | Humphrey Lyttelton | Ken Colyer’s | Kenny Ball | Omega Jazz Band

From childhood days in the early 1950s post-war shadow of Brixton bomb sites and ration book austerity, and later at...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2022

John Coltrane: Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings

Art Taylor | Donald Byrd | Freddie Hubbard | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Kenny Burrell | Louis Hayes | Paul Chambers | Red Garland | Tommy Flanagan

This impressive set could be seen as a response to the recent 1963: New Directions (see Jazzwise 238), but there...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2019

Splinters: Inclusivity

Jeff Clyne | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler | Phil Seamen | Stan Tracey | Trevor Watts | Tubby Hayes

One of the most fascinating experimental projects launched during the turmoil of the early 1970s British modern jazz scene was...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: February/2022

Woody Shaw: Tokyo 1981

Billy Brooks | Dizzy Reece | Jimmy Woode | Johnny Griffi | Kenny Drew | Mulgrew Miller | Nathan Davis | Slide Hampton | Stafford James | Steve Turre

The Shaw quintet that plays six of the seven tracks on this CD is his last regular working group, and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2018

Francy Boland: Playing with the Trio

Originally scattered between the big band fare on Going Classic (Vogue) this presents Boland’s excellent trio – Kenny Clarke and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014