Django Bates and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Saluting Sgt. Pepper
A heady brew of Beatles, Bates and beefy big band, Saluting Sgt. Pepper could easily have been one seriously over-egged...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2017
Sidney Bechet: Four Classic Albums – Third Set
The centrepiece of this package is the 1956 collaboration between Bechet and the six-piece band led by pianist Sammy Price...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2022
Large Unit: Ana
Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love has always happily teetered between freedom and form. With The Thing, he’s as likely to be diving...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016
Eddie Harris: High Voltage (Recorded Live At The Village Gate in New York and At Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood)
As the 1960s morphed into the 1970s, jazz had to face the problem of appealing to a whole new generation...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2015
Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus
Alan Jackson | Bruce Turner | Dave Green | Lol Coxhill | Michael Garrick
One of the delights of recovering jazz recordings from the archives is hearing studio chatter among the musicians, busy sound...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: August/2024
Lucky Thompson And His Octet: In Paris 1960/Modern Jazz At Club Saint-Germain & The Blue Note
Lucky Thompson was just one of many tenor players that included Don Byas, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin and Dexter Gordon...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2018
Alune Wade: Sultan
“I have never stopped reading,” explains France-based Senegalese singer, composer and bass virtuoso Alune Wade of the rich sources and...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2022
Joel Harrison Angel Band: Free Country: Volume 3
Harrison has the urge within to ever explore; his releases have put music of all kinds under the spotlight, from...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Meet Me At Minton's
Grammy-nominated composer and producer, pianist and ex-folk singer Hopkins, a Californian who moved over to New York in 2000, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017
Nils Landgren: The Moon, The Stars And You
Landgren loves a concept. If he’s not funking up Abba, his mellifluous trombone is gracing, as with this charming, guileless...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011
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