Review of Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58

Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58

Gerry Mulligan | Harry 'sweets’ Edison | Herb Ellis | Louie Bellson | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Stan Getz

Phoenix

Rating: ★★★★

Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013

Review of Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Buster Williams | Chet Baker | Edir dos Santos | Gunter Lenz | Larry Coryell | Nicola Stlo | Peri dos Santos | Rocky Knauer | Tony Williams | Wolfgang Lackerschmid

Hipjazz

Rating: ★★

Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015

Review of Eric Reed Quartet: Everybody Gets The Blues

Eric Reed Quartet: Everybody Gets The Blues

Eric Reed | McClenty Hunter | Mike Gurrola | Tim Green

Smoke Sessions

Rating: ★★★★

Reed writes eloquently and touchingly about his religious faith in his lengthy album essay. The son and grandson of devout...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Review of In Common: Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, Harish Raghavan and Marcus Gilmore

In Common: Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, Harish Raghavan and Marcus Gilmore

Harish Raghavan | Joel Ross | Marcus Gilmore | Matthew Stevens | Walter Smith III

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Saxophonist Walter Smith III’s evocative low-lights tenor sound and drily quixotic irregularities of phrasing have already graced a fine album...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Review of Harold López-Nussa: Un Día Cualquiera

Harold López-Nussa: Un Día Cualquiera

Gaston Joya | Harold López-Nussa | Ruy Adrian López-Nussa

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

With all the uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the North and its Latin American neighbours, some musicians are offering their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954

Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954

Art Kile | Barney Kessel | Pete Jolly

Modern Harmonic

Rating: ★★★★

Here's a discovery. The Jazz Mill club was in Phoenix, Arizona, but only lasted for a year, bringing in top...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017

Review of Eddie Harris: Silver Cycles

Eddie Harris: Silver Cycles

Billy Hart | Bruno Carr | Eddie Harris | Jodie Christian | Joe Zawinul | Marco Valdez | Melvin Jackson | Monk Montgomery | Richard Davis | Richard Smith

Atlantic

Rating: ★★★★

The late Chicago saxophonist can make a credible claim to being one of the great bridges between the mainstream and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Review of Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings

Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings

Anders Christensen | Caecilie Balling | Christian Ellegaard | Jakup Lützen | Josefine Opsahl | Mikkel Hess | Nikolaj Hess

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Hess is a Danish pianist-composer in his mid-fifties who, among other things, teaches at the famous Rhythmic Conservatory and has...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2021

Review of The E.J. Strickland Quintet: Warriors For Peace

The E.J. Strickland Quintet: Warriors For Peace

E.J. Strickland | Godwin Louis | Josh Ginsburg | Jure Pukl | Taber Gable | Ulrich Edorh

Editor's Choice

Jammin'colorS

Rating: ★★★★

Not so long ago, the Strickland twins seemed to be on loads of recordings. They even had their own label....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Feb/2019

Review of Chet Baker: Big Band

Chet Baker: Big Band

Art Pepper | Bill Hood | Bill Perkins | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Burgess | Bob Graf | Bobby Timmons | Bud Shank | Carson Smith | Chet Baker

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015

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