Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet
Art Tatum | Ben Webster | Bill Douglass | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Red Callendar | Teddy Wilson
The core of this elegantly packaged release is the seven-track album cut by Tatum and Webster in 1956, and which...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019
Edgar Knecht: Dance on Deep Waters
Edgar Knecht | Rolf Denecke | Stephan Emig | Tobias Schulte
There is no doubt that Germany is the sleeping giant of the European jazz scene; there are just so many...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013
Digby Fairweather: Digby Fairweather Archives: Chris Ellis
A multiplicity of tracks and sessions issued anew on Fairweather's own label. As befits the instigator of the National Jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2014
Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda
Reeds maestro Noah Preminger and bassist Kim Cass are go-to musicians in New York left-field jazz, The better-known Preminger has...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2021
Dennis Rollins' Velocity: The 11th Gate
Dennis Rollins | Pedro Segundo | Ross Stanley
A real treat from Rollins, who has been gigging Velocity for about 18 months, but most people will know from...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2011
Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs
Christian Flohr | Johann Weiss | Lorenz Hargassner | Sebastian Deufel
Like all of you, I like to think I take my jazz seriously. But you know what? Sometimes I just...
Reviewed by Nina Fortune in issue: April/2023
Jane Monheit: The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald
Daniel Sadownick | Jane Monheit | Michael Kanan | Neal Miner | Nicholas Payton | Rick Montalbano
Beginning with a luxuriant reading of the Duke Ellington/Carl Sigman song, ‘All Too Soon’, this exceptional tribute to Ella Fitzgerald...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2016
Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria
Joey Baron | Kuhn | Steve Swallow
A surprisingly straightahead record for ECM, evoking not the clichéd idea of what constitues an ECM trio album but the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2012
Charles Mingus: Three Or Four Shades Of Blues
The last album Mingus played on was an odd mixture, but gained considerable sales success in the heyday of fusion....
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014
Whit Dickey/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Vessel In Orbit
Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Whit Dickey
Drummer Whit Dickey – who power-drove the David S Ware Quartet throughout the early 1990s – has released some of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017
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