Pacific Mambo Orchestra: The III Side

Aaron Lington | Alex Britti | Anthony Blea | Armando Cordoba | Benny Torres | Braulio Barrera | Carlos Caro | Christelle Durandy | Christian Tumalan | Dafnis Prieto

Pacific Mambo Orchestra is the sort of wish-list outfit Latinophiles dream about. On this third album, the West Coast juggernaut...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2020

Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49

Bud Powell | Charlie Christian | Charlie Parker | Coleman Hawkins | Dexter Gordon | Dizzy Gillespie | Django Reinhardt | Don Byas | Ella Fitzgerald | Fats Navarro

We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Various Artists: Soho Scene ’57: Jazz Goes Mod

Art Blakey | Art Pepper | Barney Kessel | Carl Perkins | Charles Mingus | Dave Lee | Derek Smith | Dick Heckstall-Smith | Dizzy Reece | Don Rendell

In the latest of these valuable compilations, the focus is on the contrasting UK and US modern jazz scenes as...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024

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

David Kikoski: Consequences

Christian McBride | David Kikoski | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts

So much is written about Keith Jarrett, Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran, one tends to overlook a pianist like David...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2012

Various Artists: Soho Scene ’66, ’67: Jazz Goes Mod

Dudley Moore | Harry Humphrey Lyttelton | Jimmy McGriff | Les McCann | Lionel Hampton | Milt Jackson | Ronnie Ross | Ronnie Scott | Stan Tracey | Tubby Hayes

For this latest 4CD sound- picture Rhythm and Blues Records has again found some gems from unlikely sources, and included...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2020

Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1

Ambrose Akinmusire | Anabel Gil Diaz | Dianne Reeves | Edmar Colon | Elena Pinderhughes | Julian Lage | Kris Davis | Linda May Han Oh | Matthew Stevens | Melanie Charles

One of the fascinations of listening to new jazz recordings comes when a spotlight is turned on artists and tunes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2022

Giacomo Gates: The Revolution Will Be Jazz

A timely tribute to Gil Scott-Heron made just prior to his death this year, his songs are given an unsurprisingly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011

Clarke-Boland Big Band: Handle With Care

Ahmet Muvaffak Falay | Ake Persson | Benny Bailey | Billy Mitchell | Carl Drevo | Derek Humble | Edmund Arnie | Erich Kleinschuster | Fats Sadi | Francey Boland

Regrets? I've had a few and high on that list was never catching this iconic aggregation in person. There is...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2015