Erena Terabako with Legends: New York Attitude

Dominick Farinacci | Erena Terakubo | Kenny Barron | Lee Pearson | Ron Carter

The legends in question are Ron Carter and Kenny Barron, and they burst into action from the word go. The...

Reviewed by Mike Hobar in issue: October/2012

Roseanna Vitro: Listen Here

Arnett Cobb | Ben Riley | Buster Williams | Kenny Barron | Roseanna Vitro

Recorded in 1982 and originally released in October 1984, this reissue of Roseanna Vitro's fine debut album finds a singer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021

Joe Farnsworth: City of Sounds

Joe Farnsworth | Kenny Barron | Peter Washington

Drummer-led sessions usually fill me with trepidation; too much percussion can dull the brain, I find. Not so this time....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021

William Russo/Kenny Baker: Russo In London/Kenny Baker-Blowing Up A Storm

Kenny Baker | Ron Simmonds | William Russo

Vocalion can always be relied upon to seek out those albums that, with the passing of time, might otherwise have...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2013

Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: This Is The Moment/Quiet Kenny/Inta Somethin'/Matador

Art Taylor | Bobby Timmons | Cedar Walton | Charlie Persip | Curtis Fuller | G.T. Hogan | J.C. Moses | Jackie McLean | Kenny Dorham | Leroy Vinnegar

Tough bootin’ tenor sax players and blues-wailin’ guitarists may immediately be associated with Texas, but it should be remembered that...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2013

Kenny Wheeler: Songs For Quintet

Chris Laurence | John Parricelli | Kenny Wheeler | Martin France | Stan Sulzmann

To paraphase what a wiser man than I has written of Don Cherry, ‘Kenny Wheeler didn't make music for his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Kenny Wheeler: Mirrors

James Maddren | Kenny Wheeler | London Vocal Project | Mark Lockheart | Nikki Iles | Norma Winstone | Pete Churchill | Steve Watts

Featuring arrangements of poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and WB Yeats, the 11-movement Mirrors suite represents a completely...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2013

Ernie Henry with Kenny Dorham: Presenting Ernie Henry with Kenny Dorham

Art Taylor | G.T. Hogan | Henry | Kenny Dorham | Kenny Drew | Wilbur Ware

Two much-celebrated 1950s LPs together, showing the chemistry between altoistand trumpeter in quartet and (preferably) quintet settings....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project

Howard Johnson | Jimmy Owens | Kenny Barron | Kenny Davis | Marcus Strickland | Winard Harper | Wycliffe Gordon

How many published Monk compositions are there? Maybe around 70? Seems as though there are more than that number of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012

Kenny Burrell: Kenny Burrell/Swingin'

1950s Burrell from two of his earliest Blue Note albums, and despite the stellar groups, the highpoint is an unaccompanied...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015