Don Grolnick: Nighttown

Bill Stewart | Dave Holland | Don Grolnick | Joe Lovano | Marty Ehrlich | Randy Brecker | Steve Turre

Don Grolnick pretty much reached the top of his profession as a first-call New York studio musician in the 1970s...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Goes To Junior College

The sequel to the hit LP Jazz Goes To College, this is the Brubeck/Desmond combination on top form, live in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Jimi Hendrix: Both Sides of The Sky

Billy Cox | Buddy Miles | Dallas Taylor | Jimi Hendrix | Johnny Winter | Lonnie Youngblood | Mitch Mitchell | Noel Redding | Stephen Stills

This third volume, in what is referred to as a trilogy of Hendrix archive releases covering 2010's Valleys of Neptune...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2018

Joe McPhee/Dave Rempis/Tomeka Reid/Brandon Lopez/Paal Nilssen-Love: Of Things Beyond Thule Volume 2

Brandon Lopez | Dave Rempis | Joe McPhee | Paal Nilssen-Love | Tomeka Reid

Recorded live at The Hungry Brain in Chicago, this stonking set captures an inter-generational quintet of impeccable pedigree with ideas...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2020

Harry Miller: Different Times, Different Places: Volume 2

Alan Tomlinson | Alan Wakeman | Bernie Holland | Dave Holdsworth | Harry Miller | Keith Tippett | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Trevor Watts

This excellent second installment of Different Times, Different Places gives a further insight into the vast achievements of the late...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Seldom do recordings of previously unissued material from the past demand jazz history be re-written. Live in Europe 1969 Vol....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

Chris Speed Trio: Respect For Your Toughness

Chris Speed | Chris Tordini | Dave King

New York-based saxophonist Chris Speed’s career stretches back to the early 1990s and includes work with Claudia Quintet and Tim...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2020

Arild Andersen/the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Tommy Smith: Celebration

Arild Andersen | Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | Tommy Smith

Bassist Arild Andersen's critically acclaimed trio with Tommy Smith on saxophone has toured extensively and recorded for ECM – Live...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012

Katriona Taylor: Blind Passion

Chris Nickolls | Dave Jones | Dominic Ashworth | John Crawford | Katriona Taylor | Peter Hammond | Robin Banerjee | Vasilis Xenopoulos

There's a long tradition of blind and visually-impaired jazz musicians, from Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano and George Shearing through to...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: May/2021

Paul Desmond: Desmond: Here I Am Quartet and Quintet

Bill Bates | Dave Van Kriedt | Dick Collins | Don Elliott | Paul Desmond

With the rise of pattern based improvisation through the influence of jazz academe, melodic improvisation has receded. Thus Desmond's name,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016