Various Artists: Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musician’s Emergency Fund

Hiromi | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Charles Lloyd | Christian McBride | Esperanza Spalding | Herbie Hancock | Jon Batiste | Joshua Redman | Kenny Garrett | Kindred Spirits

In March 2020, a consortium of record labels – Blue Note, Concord Music Group, Mack Avenue Music Group, Nonesuch Records,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Dexter Gordon: The Resurgence Of Dexter Gordon: From Los Angeles to New York

Al Harewood | Charles Green | Dexter Gordon | Dolo Coker | Freddy Hubbard | George Tucker | Horace Parlan | Kenny Drew | Laurence Marable | Martin Banks

The three albums that make up this 2CD compilation capture Dexter Gordon confidently claiming his place in the tenor sax...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2018

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux: Path of Totality

Alan Ferber | Carl Maraghi | Dan Urness | David Binney | David Travers-Smith | Jason Barnsley | Kenny Wollesen | Mark Duggan | Matt Holman | Matt Mitchell

The New York-based, Canadian saxophonist-composer Quinsin Nachoff’s second album for his quartet Flux has its roots in a progressive jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Miles Davis: The Unissued 1956/7 Paris Broadcasts

Art Taylor | Barney Wilen | Christian Garros | Kenny Clarke | Lester Young | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Pierre Michelot | Red Garland | Rene Urtreger

This album divides itself into two parts comprising ten tracks with the French musicians noted above, albeit with Lester Young...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Ike Quebec: Four Classic Albums

Four of the tenorist’s great Blue Note albums in one package, these run the gamut from the almost straightahead Blue...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Lou Bennett: Dansez et Revez

A US pianist and organist who moved to France as a kind of expat Jimmy Smith-style Hammond specialist, Bennett is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Sam Newbould Quintet: Blencathra

Following their recent studies at Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the budding young alto saxophonist Newbould’s quintet evoke the leader’s Northern England...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Cory Henry: The Revival

The ex-Kenny Garrett sideman and touring Snarky Puppy keyboardist plays a solo Hammond B-3 organ shifting from funky gospel song...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Coleman Hawkins: The Lost 1950 Munich Concert

Not a reissue but a newly released 1950 concert, this is a valuable recording by Hawk, with James Moody and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Various Artists: Jazzmen Detroit

A welcome reappearance for this session from 1956 with the Detroit stars who had just arrived in New York, Pepper...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012