Ron Carter: Ron Carter’s Great Big Band
Released in time for his 75th birthday in May, this initially seems a surprising entry from the always adventurous Carter....
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2012
Raul De Souza: 3 Classic Albums: Sweet Lucy/Til Tomorrow Comes/Don't Ask My Neighbours
A highly respected figure in his native Brazil, the late trombonist Raul De Souza will most likely be on the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields
This programmatic set of eight original compositions by Maria Schneider, evoking her childhood and early adolescent memories of the middle...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2015
Earl Hines: Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945
When I was putting together a Radio 3 Jazz Library profile of Earl Hines, I discovered that since the demise...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Grover Washington Jr: Sacred Kind Of Love: The Columbia Recordings
Even his most staunch defenders may well concede that, post- Winelight, the revered Philadelphia saxophonist has been in something of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2019
Tony Coe: Zeitgeist
Recorded in 1976, the year punk broke in a burst of pomposity-pricking primitivism, this Brit-jazz rarity had the nerve to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016
Benny Goodman: Small Bands Collection 1935-45
On one level, this compilation gives a very informative bird's eye view of the Benny Goodman small groups over their...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021
Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth: The Stereo and Mono Versions
I realise there's a fashion for reissuing the mono versions of famous sessions we've long loved in stereo, on the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018
Zeitgeist
The piano trio's infinite varieties take another small twist with this Leeds group's debut. While Manchester's GoGo Penguin lead the...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2016
Hadda Brooks: Out of the Blue: The Singles and Albums Collection 1945-53
In the late 1940s, Hadda Brooks made a name for herself via the Modern record label in Los Angeles, founded...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022
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