Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud
Barney Wilen | Kenny Clarke | Miles Davis | Pierre Michelot | René Urteger
At the conclusion of the Jazz for Moderns tour in 1957 on 23 November 1957, Miles Davis travelled alone to...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2018
Miroslav Vitous Group:
Jan Christensen | John Surman | Kenny Kirkland | Miroslav Vitous
What startles here is the piano playing of Kirkland. Barely 25, he has a kick-ass attitude mixed with the vet's...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014
Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying
Bill Frisell | Greg Leisz | Jenny Scheinman | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Scherr
What luxury to be awash in so many Frisell recordings, especially as he’s tapped such rich musical veins of late....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2011
Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V
Brandon Seabrook | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Malaby
Opsvik must rattle up the air miles as he sustains a career on the busy New York and Oslo jazz...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: ‘Live’ at The Cafe Bohemia, November 1955
Art Blakey | Doug Watkins | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | Kenny Dorham
This double-CD repackage of the original Messengers sole live recording illustrates how ludicrously wide of the mark certain stylistic labels...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: June/2019
Various Artists: Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49
Along with the Dial label, Savoy was the small independent that best documented the first flowering of bebop – Charlie...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2017
Andrew Woolf: Song Unsung
Andrew Woolf | Dave Manington | Joe Auckland | Rob Updegraff | Simon Roth
As a member of Alvorada, Andrew Woolf is a leading light in the UK choro scene, choro being a style...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2021
Blossom Dearie: Little Jazz Bird
Blossom Dearie | Ed Thigpen | Kenny Burrell | Ray Brown
Blossom Dearie (1924-2009), so the story goes, received her (perfectly apt) name when a neighbour brought over some peach blossoms...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2010
Dexter Gordon: Satin Doll – Dexter In Radioland Vol.14
Art Taylor | Bo Stief | Dexter Gordon | Kenny Drew
This was a period when just about every time ex-pat Dexter Gordon played a club date local radio was on...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2013
Julian Lage: Modern Lore
Jesse Harris | Julian Lage | Kenny Wollesen | Scott Colley | Tyler Chester
Kick off your shoes and revel in the twang-tastic world of Lage the Tele-master. In barely 40 minutes and 11...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2018
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