Album Interview: RYMDEN: Space Sailors

Bugge Westeltoff

You can only make a first impression once, and RYMDEN’s debut album, Reflections and Odysseys, was always going to be...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2020

Miles Davis: The Original Mono Recordings

19-piece big-bands | Barney Wilen | Bill Evans | Butch Warren | Cannonball Adderley | Charlie Rouse | Frankie Dunlop | Gil Evans | Hank Mobley | Jimmy Cobb

Here's a novel way to get more mileage out of best-selling material – original LP covers and contents, no alternate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Red Garland Trio: Swingin' On The Korner

Leroy Vinnegar | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

Garland's somewhat intermittent career included periods of considerable popularity, initially through his association with Miles and Coltrane. Throughout, he retained...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2015

Album Interview: Chick Corea/Stefano Bollani: Orvieto

Chick Corea | Stefano Bollani

The fusing of a pair of virtuosic live wires – the Milan-born Bollani with youth on his side and the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Album Interview: Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: You Don't Know The Life

Bobby Previe | Jamie Saft | Steve Swallow

While previous albums by the Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte trio have tended to fall a little under the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore Recordings

Billie Holiday | Frankie Newton

A complete Commodore set by vocalist Billie Holiday was actually released by Universal in 1997, so is long out of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Both/And

Adam Rudolph | Brahim Frigbane | Charles Burnham | Daniel Levin | Elektra Kurtis | Graham Haynes | Greg Heffernan | Jason Hwang | Jerome Harris | Joseph Bowie

Having been lucky enough to see this group, augmented by local Finnish musicians, at the Tampere jazz festival a few...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014

Jasper Høiby: Planet B

Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Marc Michel

With his Fellow Creatures album in 2016, Danish virtuoso Jasper Høiby (bassist with the thrilling European power trio Phronesis) showed...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

Charles Persip and the Jazz Statesmen

Freddie Hubbard | Marcus Belgrave | Roland Alexander | Ron Carter | Ronnie Matthews

Charlie (or Charli, as he now calls himself) Persip was predominantly a big band drummer, working with Dizzy Gillespie and...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2012

Joe Alexander Quintet: Blue Jubilee

For those older readers who search the new releases section in vain for familiar names, here's one even you may...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2013