Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time & Atlantic Recordings 1948-1959
Suddenly we’re being surrounded by numerous Ray Charles box sets as the original copyright owners slug it out with public...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960
Earl Philips | Howlin' Wolf | Hubert Sumlin | Otis Spann | Willie Dixon | Willie Johnson
Released, coincidentally, within days of Hubert Sumlin's death – the extraordinary Chicago blues guitarist who was the rocks to Wolf's...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: February/2012
Peggy Lee: Ultimate Peggy Lee
Released in tandem with Peggy Lee Decca Rarities, this is part of the Lee estate's year-long centenary tribute to this...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020
Bill Laurance: Live At Union Chapel
When keyboardist and pianist Laurance spoke to Jazzwise at the start of this year he confessed it had taken a...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Martial Solal & Dave Liebman: Masters in Bordeaux
In 1963, Martial Solal appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. The album that resulted – Martial Solal at Newport ’63...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem
All the finest jazz that has been handed down to us on recordings are impossible to separate from the cultural...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021
Jason Palmer: Con Alma
Jason Palmer | Joe Martin | Kendrick Scott | Leo Genevese
Jason Palmer's spiky tone and long angular lines are rooted in the lyrical, harmonically sophisticated trumpet tradition of Booker Little.Original...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2022
Dominic Galea's London Quintet: Jozetta
Brandon Allen | Clark Tracey | Dominic Galea | Mark Lewandowski | Martin Shaw
Leading Maltese pianist Galea and drummer Tracey are old chums and put this band together for a 2015 appearance at...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2017
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Porgy and Bess
Never absent from the reissue lists for long, this Ella-Louis collaboration remains a considerable achievement for both principals as well...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2018
Abbey Lincoln: Love Having You Around
Subtitled ‘Live at the Keystone Korner Vol.2’, Love Having You Around draws from the same weeklong engagement at the San...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017
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