Weather Report: The Legendary Tapes – 1978-1981
Jaco Pastorius | Joe Zawinul | Peter Erskine | Robert ‘Bobby’ Thomas | Wayne Shorter
On paper the titles here are very familiar, with numerous live releases covering the ‘Jaco Pastoius years’, and yet there's...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954
Art Kile | Barney Kessel | Pete Jolly
Here's a discovery. The Jazz Mill club was in Phoenix, Arizona, but only lasted for a year, bringing in top...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017
George Russell Presents: The Esoteric Circle
Arild Andersen | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Terje Rypdal
On the original liner notes for this album, annotator Nat Hentoff writes that with the musicians that comprise The Esoteric...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2015
Tubby Hayes: Tubby The Tenor
Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Eddie Costa | George Duvivier | Horace Parlan | Tubby Hayes
Reissued just in time to mark the 60th anniversary of Hayes’ ground-breaking New York debut (see cover feature this issue),...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2021
Hannes Bennich: When Losing A Dream To Reality
Britta Virves | Emil Norman | Hannes Bennich | Helen Salim | Tomas Sjödell
There’s an inviting warmth to the sound of this album, thanks presumably to Stockholm’s Yardhouse Studio, giving a rounded fullness...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2022
Elan Mehler Trio: There Is A Dance
Elan Mehler | Francisco Mela | Tony Scherr
Elan Mehler was discovered by Gilles Peterson in 2007 and went on to release three albums for Peterson's Brownswood imprint:...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2022
Gregg August: Four By Six
Gregg August is a very interesting musician indeed. Classically trained, first principally on percussion, he went to Barcelona, then Paris,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2013
James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being
Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis
Having made a fine album with his Red Lily quintet in 2021, Jesup’s Wagon, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Dexter Gordon: Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
Dexter Gordon | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw
Dexter Gordon moved to Copenhagen in 1962. He sent back a couple of musical postcards from Paris, one in 1963,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2021
Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly: British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62
Acrobat (with the aid of researcher-writer Simon Spillett) have done it again. Here's a 24-track compilation that just keeps giving....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018
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