Jimmy Raney: Live In Tokyo
Barry Harris | Leroy Williams | Sam Jones
A sister release to Charles McPherson's CD that bears the same title. This is indeed the same band minus McPherson...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016
Paul Desmond: Desmond: Here I Am Quartet and Quintet
Bill Bates | Dave Van Kriedt | Dick Collins | Don Elliott | Paul Desmond
With the rise of pattern based improvisation through the influence of jazz academe, melodic improvisation has receded. Thus Desmond's name,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Wheelhouse: Boss of the Plains
Dave Rempis | Jason Adasiewicz | Nate McBride
When this Chicago-based trio first came together in 2005, the intention was to perform each other’s compositions. Over the years...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013
Esmond Selwyn: The Middle Half
Esmond Selwyn | John-Paul Gard | Robin Jones
Ringing with the sound of a bygone age steeped as this album is in the swing-into-bop mainstream jazz of the...
Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: May/2012
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Here We Go Again: Celebrating The Genius Of Ray Charles
Norah Jones | Willie Nelson | Wynton Marsalis
This follow-up to Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis's 2008 Blue Note album, Two Men With the Blues, sees the duo...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011
Houston Person: I'm Just A Lucky So And So
Eddie Allen | Houston Person | Kenny Washington | Lafayette Harris | Matthew Parish | Rodney Jones
Person, arguably the last of the big-toned tenors and now aged 84, has always been his own man. Self-managed and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2019
Julian Lage: Love Hurts
Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage
Hard to imagine two more different stylists than Hedwig Mollestad and Lage, but both favour the keep ’em brief but...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2019
Chris Speed Trio: Despite Obstacles
Chris Speed | Chris Tordini | Dave King
The initial idea for Chris Speed’s current trio - of drummer Dave King, both now joined in the newly-formatted The...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023
Steve Davis: Bluesthetic
Christian McBride | Geoff Keezer | Peter Bernstein | Steve Davis | Steve Nelson | Willie Jones III
It’s 24 years since trombonist Steve Davis last recorded with the front line of Steve Nelson and Peter Bernstein, on...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022
Mack Avenue Super Band: Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival – 2013
The CD of the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival must have sold reasonably well enough for Mack Avenue to release one...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2014
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