John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio & Quintet: Four Classic Albums
Now that Universal has killed off the once-ubiquitous Original Jazz Classics label, home of hundreds of reissues of vintage sessions...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2020
Alex Western-King: Sideslip
Alex Western-King | James Copus | Jay Davis | Jonny Wickham | Sam Leak
The impressively surnamed Western-King is a Guildhall music graduate, a classical clarinettist, a jazz saxophonist and author of Jazz Phrases...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Bossa Nova USA
Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond
Between 1955, when he signed with Columbia, and 1966, a year before Dave Brubeck wound up his famous quartet, Brubeck...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018
Jimmy Deuchar: The Complete Tempo Recordings 1955-58
This exemplary two CD set detailing an unsung hero of British jazz's work for the Tempo label between 1955-58 is...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014
Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars
Kush Abadey | Lage Lund | Melissa Aldana | Pablo Menares | Sullivan Fortner
It’s a brave move indeed to make a label debut as introspective as Aldana does here, but equally remarkable is...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: March/2022
Jan Bang: Reading The Air
After 25 years, singer and producer Jan Bang releases his second solo vocal album, a sequence of songs with lyrics...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2024
João Gilberto: Ao Vivo No SESC — 1998 (Live at SESC)
In 1998, João Gilberto, one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova revival and an expert in Samba, was living...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Wayne Shorter: Celebration Vol. 1
Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez | John Patitucci | Wayne Shorter
It’s something of a cliché that jazz is ‘different every time’, but in the case of this quartet, it was...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
Jason Palmer: The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn
Jason Palmer | Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Mark Turner
These two intense live albums, recorded in August 2023 at Brooklyn’s Ornithology listening space, present two heavyweight left-field quartets playing...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2025
The Fury: Live In Brooklyn
Lage Lund | Mark Turner | Matt Brewer | Tyshawn Sorey
These two intense live albums, recorded in August 2023 at Brooklyn’s Ornithology listening space, present two heavyweight left-field quartets playing...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2025
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