Various Artists: Jazz On Film: Beat, Square & Cool
Going on with the flow from last year's 5-CD box set of jazz-based Film Noir soundtracks, Jazzwise's film music chauffeur...
Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Sonny Rollins: And The Big Brass, Trio and Quintet
While there are perhaps no absolute classics, here is an interesting overview of one of Rollins's best and most prolific...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012
Madison Carter: Polymorphic
Flora Carbo | Imogen Cygler | Jessica Lindsay Smith | Massillon Carter | Niran Dasika
As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Birdland 1951-52 & Newport 1955
This is rare and valuable Brubeck; the sessions from Birdland were taken off the air by Boris Rose, who recorded...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016
Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society
The New Seekers might have wanted to “teach the world to sing” but here on her fourth and most ambitious...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2012
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach: Money Jungle
Charles Mingus | Duke Ellington | Max Roach
Along with the output of Bill Evans' great but short-lived group with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, Money Jungle is...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2020
Janel & Anthony: New Moon In An Evil Age
Anthony Pirog | Devin Hoff | Dr Ali Analouei | Janel Leppin
Here's a pair of very different releases from the wondrous Cuneiform label, both of them featuring cellist Janel Leppin and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2024
Anthony Braxton: 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
The montage of pictures of Anthony Braxton on the sleeve of his 1969 album B-X0 NO-47A is noteworthy. In one...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021
Album Interview: Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6
Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Wynton Kelly
Having recorded Giant Steps in March and December 1959, John Coltrane was poised to leave the Miles Davis Quintet to...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018
Loose Tubes: Säd Afrika
“When I hear the first bars of ‘Säd Afrika’ I could be back at Ronnie's, feeling the crackle of excitement...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012
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