Ack Van Rooyen: 90
Recorded in his 90th year, the doleful-toned Dutch flugelhornist sounds just fine with an elegant bop-plus sextet playing tunes by...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Early Years – 1952-56
Culled from five albums, this is a good 2CD tour through the MJQ in its early prime, with the switch...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019
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
John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents
First, some important discographical information that is not mentioned in either the album liner or the publicity notes. In 1969,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2025
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
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
Richard Fairhurst/John Taylor: Duets
Richard Fairhurst has been a Steinway international artist since 1998 and initially joined forces with the world-class English piano veteran...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018
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
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