Bessie Smith: The Complete Columbia Recordings

Bessie Smith | Charlie Green | Clarence Williams | Don Redman | Fletcher Henderson | James P. Johnson | Louis Armstrong

The Empress of the Blues in all her decade-long majesty: her full Columbia output plus a series of interviews with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2013

Various: Magic Moments 7 Sounds of Surprise

A diverse sample of recent releases from the other Munich jazz label including Manu Katche, Michael Wollny/Marius Neset and Nguyên...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Sidney Bechet: French Movies

A collection of the soundtracks for three movies Bechet made in France in 1955-56, the excellent sound and vibrant playing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Mulatu Astatke & the Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing

Bob Sedergreen | Enusha Taye | Ian Dixon | Mr Monk | Mulatu Astatke | Peter Harper | Robbie Belchamber

International artists touring Australia have long saved on costs by working with a pickup band, very often time and again....

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2020

Bill Evans Trio: Portrait In Jazz

Bill Evans | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro

Recorded three days before the end of 1959, and usually omitted from the seminal albums of that year, Portrait In...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017

John Basile: Amplitudes

Originally meant as a duo, this Boston-based guitarist conceived the material with just with the help of an iPhone app,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Barry Harris: Plays Tadd Dameron

Barry Harris | Gene Taylor | Leroy Williams

Greatly valued as an educator, Harris is also one of the great post-Powell bebop pianists who resisted the onset of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2015

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Zlatko Kaucic Kombo/Orkester: Rara Roza Sound Fields for T.S.

Recorded live in Slovenia, this avant jazz group within a string orchestra performs the abstract classical textural compositions of Zlatko...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Bill Evans | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | George Barrow | Oliver Nelson | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Roy Haynes

Has there ever been amore impressive line-up on one jazz record than on Oliver Nelson’s 1961 masterpiece? Perhaps… but more...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021