Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk
Carmell Jones | Francy Boland | Jimmy Woode | Kenny Clarke | Nathan Davis
Jones and Davis knew each other as youngsters in Kansas City, their home town, and this German session marked their...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2023
Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox
Allan Harris | Jake Goldbas | Leon Boykins | Pascal Le Boeuf | Samuel Torres | Yotam Silberstein
A three-time winner of the New York Nightlife Award for ‘Outstanding Jazz Vocalist’, and named by Tony Bennett as ‘my...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015
Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling
Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014
Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus
These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2018
Bhattacharya/Grønseth/Wessel
Anders Lonne Grønseth | Debashish Bhattacharya | Kenny Wessel | Subhashis Bhattacharya
The legendary Debashish Bhattacharya plays swoonsome slide guitar, on axes of his own design, plus more traditional National steels. His...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017
Bud Powell: Live At The Blue Note Café, Paris 1961
Bud Powell | Kenny Clarke | Pierre Michelot | Zoot Sims
This is hardly comparable to the sensational Birdland 1953 set reissued last year (and reviewed in Jazzwise 185) but well...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2015
Kippie Moketsi & HaiSinger: Blue Stompin'
USA meets SA on a session that has simpatico charm à gogo. While the trans-continental encounter of two excellent saxophonists,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021
Marc Copland: Better By Far
Drew Gress | Joey Baron | Marc Copland | Ralph Alessi
Strange to recall that Copland made his professional debut as a saxophonist, but since concentrating on the piano since the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2017
Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zürich Concert
Ingrid Laubrock is a musician of rare sensitivity and imagination (this is me talking, by the way, not the press...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2014
London Horns: Don't Look Down
Andy Fisenden | Barnaby Dickinson | Dishan Abrahams | Graeme Blevins | Graeme Flowers | Mike Outram
The sleeve photo shows these precocious chaps toasting each other with Jack Daniels and rarely can a glass have been...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
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