Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones: The Complete Sessions

Barry Galbraith | Billy Byers | Budd Johnson | Charlie Shavers | Clark Terry | Dinah Washington | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cobb | Joe Newman | Lucky Thompson

Before he moved on to other things, Quincy Jones’ big band arranging of the late 1950s was seldom surpassed, particularly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Daryl Runswick Quartet: Playdreaming

Daryl Runswick | Mick Pyne | Ray Warleigh | Spike Wells

Here's more jazz exhumation, this time courtesy of Spike Wells' ghetto-blaster, lately re-vivified and well worth the effort. Runswick (born...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018

Miles Davis: Three Classic Albums Plus (Second Set)

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Hank Mobley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland | Wynton Kelly

Stop me if I've said this before (er, actually, don't please Ed. I'm raising a valid point!) but can someone...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019

Tore Brunborg: Slow Snow

Eivind Aarset | Per Oddvar Johansen | Steinar Raknes | Tore Brunborg

Although the liner notes do not mention it, Brunborg was a member of the ground breaking Norwegian band Masqualero that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

Poncho Sanchez: Trane's Delight

Andy Langham | Francisco Torres | Giancarlo Alfredo Duncan | Joey DeLeon | Norell Thompson | Poncho Sanchez | Rene Camacho | Robert Hardt | Ron Blake

A seven-year hiatus, and Grammy-winning conguero Poncho Sanchez gifts us a masterwork that partly explains where he's been; if you're...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Joachim Kühn: 70th Birthday Edition: Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark/Europeana

Albert Mangelsdorff | Christof Lauer | Daniel Humair | Django Bates | Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark | Joachim Kühn | Klaus Doldinger | Markus Stockhausen | Mike Gibbs | Richard Galliano

Now 70, Kühn's achievements are rightly being celebrated by the ACT label, and although it is doubtful that they will...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014

Stix Hooper: Mainstream Straight-Ahead/Many Hats/Jazz Gems

Al Criado | Andrei Kitaev | Del Atkins | Harish Raghavan | Oscar Brashear | Oscar Castro-Neves | Paul Viapiano | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa | Scott Mayo

Hooper of course was the man in the drum chair of the Crusaders, from their soul bop days as the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2013

Monty Alexander: Here Comes The Sun

Duffy Jackson | Eugene Wright | Montego Joe | Monty Alexander

Jamaican-born pianist Alexander moved to New York and made an early break-through in the 1960s, cast by some as the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018

Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet: Live at Peggy's Skylight

Alessio Menconi | Joel Barford | Louis Stringer | Nigel Price

The label is Price's own and, on this showing, he has little need to be nervous. As ever, he relishes...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023

Manu Katché: Live in Concert

Three-quarters of this quartet debuted on Manu Katché (ECM) in 2012, when the trumpeter was Nils Petter Molvaer, but management...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017