Quincy Jones: Early Years: Six Complete Albums, 1957-61

Ake Persson | Art Farmer | Benny Bailey | Benny Carter | Bernie Glow | Billy Taylor | Budd Johnson | Buddy Catlett | Carl Perkins | Charles Mingus

This material is not short of reissues, and some of the six albums included here can be found on fairly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023

Blue Notes: Legacy: Live in South Africa 1964

Chris McGregor | Dudu Pukwana | Johnny Dyani | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Mongezi Feza | Nick Moyake

One year before Live in South Africa 1964, Chris McGregor recorded Jazz: The African Sound as Chris McGregor and the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022

Herbie Nichols: Four Classic Albums

This is quite probably one of the best must-have releases in Avid's four classic albums catalogue. If you didn't cop...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2020

Stan Getz & Lionel Hampton: Hamp & Getz

Bill Crow | Duke Jordan | Frank Isola | Jimmy Raney | Leroy Vinnegar | Lionel Hampton | Lou Levy | Shelly Manne | Stan Getz

Hamp and Getz occupies the first five lengthy tracks here and in the day their collaboration earned fivestar reviews. Thought...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018

Frank Sinatra: The 1953-1962 Albums

Frank Sinatra

This 10CD set documents one of the most remarkable label-artist partnerships in popular music, bringing together a staggering 12 complete...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2018

Liran Donin's 1000 Boats: 8 Songs

Ben Brown | Chris Williams | Josh Arcoleo | Liran Donin | Maria Chiara Argirò | Ranjana Ghatak

Led Bib's lyricism can be lost in their reputation for attack. Their bassist Liran Donin, though, is all melody and...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2018

Misha Mullov-Abbado: Cross-Platform Interchange

Elad Neeman | James Davison | Liam Dunachie | Matthew Herd | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Sam Rapley | Scott Chapman

Cross-Platform Interchange is the young bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado's second album for Edition following debut New Ansonia, which he recorded after...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Bagland: States of Being

Alex Jønsson | Anna Jalving | Frederik Sakham | Frej Lesner | Jakob Sørensen | Josefine Opsahl | Mathias Jæger

The fourth album release by the young Danish trumpeter Jakob Sørensen’s band Bagland is the second, following Cirkel in 2019,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2022

Antonio Sánchez: New Life

Alex Munk | Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson

New Life is a giant step forward in the career of the brilliant drummer, whose work on so many Pat...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2018

Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn: Second Half

Alex Norris | Emilio Solla | Eric Doob | John Ellis | Jorge Roeder | JP Joffre | Marcelo Woloski | Meg Okura | Pablo Assan | Ryan Keberle

Solla is Argentinian-born but based in New York and has led his nine-piece orchestra there with these first-call players since...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015