Conrad Herwig: A Voice Through the Door
Conrad Herwig | Donald Edwards | Kenny Davis | Orrin Evans | Ralph Bowen
This is the kind of album that could easily be overlooked, yet, of its kind, it's as good as it...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013
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
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
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
Orrin Evans: The Evolution of Oneself
Christian McBride | Karriem Riggins | Marvin Sewell | Orrin Evans
It's been quite a year for Orrin Evans, who appears to have left Posi-Tone to join Smoke Sessions and both...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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
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
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
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