Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul
Cyrus Chestnut | Dezron Douglas | Eric Reed | Willie Jones III
Only recently it seems I was commending the duo pairing of Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan as a master-class in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010
Lester Young Quartet: Collates
This is the most delightful album to have come my way in an age. Usefully uniting all of Young's 1949-51...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2021
Allan Holdsworth: Flat Tire: Music For A Non-existent Movie
Allan Holdsworth | Dave Carpenter
Like Jack Bruce’s Fairlight release, or Gary Husband’s black box tour recordings, every artist has his shadowy solo corner where...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2013
Lester Young: Pres And Teddy
Gene Ramey | Jo Jones | John Lewis | Lester Young | Teddy Wilson
Such was the iconic status that Lester Young previously earned for himself with both Count Basie and Billie Holiday, that...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014
Clark Terry Quartet with Thelonious Monk: In Orbit
Clark Terry | Philly Joe Jones | Sam Jones | Thelonious Monk
Clark Terry is one of jazz’s more underrated and under-documented front-rank trumpeters, so it was refreshing to see Mark ‘Banger...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss D
It’s no surprise that the combination of Washington and Jones seemed a good idea at the time, or that this...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022
Sonny Sharrock: Ask The Ages
Charnett Mofett | Elvin Jones | Pharoah Sanders | Sonny Sharrock
Recorded in 1991, Ask The Ages was the last album of Sharrock's to be released before his premature death from...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019
John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman
There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023
Dave Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith: Sun of Goldfinger
Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | David Torn | Mike Baggetta | Ryan Ferreira | Tim Berne
Put the cat out, loosen the trousers, pour a long one, shut your eyes and when you come round in...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019
Count Basie: In Concert
This is a typical programme on one of Basie’s many European tours of the period and, while there have been...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2023/2024
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