Louis Armstrong: The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966

Al Casey | Al Hall | Al Hendrickson | Allen Reuss | Alton Moore | Annie Ross | Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Barrett Deems | Big Chief Russell Moore

This impressive multi-disc box set comprises three main components: firstly the 1946-47 singles that Armstrong made for RCA during the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2021

Old and New Dreams

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell

These two releases, both examples of exceptional music-making, represent the second batch of ECM’s new Luminescence vinyl reissue programme, casting...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023

Chick Webb & His Orchestra: All The Hits And More

Band names: The Jungle Band | Benny Carter | Beverly Peer | Bill Thomas | Bob Horton | Bobby Johnson | Bobby Stark | Charles Linton | Charlie Dixon | Chauncey Haughton

Baltimore-born Webb (1909-1939) suffered from congenital tuberculosis of the spine which left him hunch-backed and often ill, yet despite this...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2024

Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook Vol.1

Alan Weekes | Byron Wallen | Carl Robinson | Cleveland Watkiss | Delroy Murray | James Wade-Sired | Orphy Robinson | Phil Ramocon

One of our greatest jazz singers has never denied his reggae origins, and this celebration of killer roots and lovers'...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022

Album Interview: Sarah Jane Morris: Bloody Rain

Adriano Adewale | Avishai Cohen | Dominic Miller | Henry Thomas | Martyn Baker | Sarah Jane Morris | Tony Rémy

In many ways, this is a remarkable album. Remarkable for its ambition, its sound world, its powerful stories and, at...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2014

Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Herbie Hancock | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Ron Carter

Columbia/Legacy propose making this set available from Friday, 17 July 2015 – 60 years to the day of Davis' breakthrough...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Album Interview: Jamie Cullum: Interlude

Jamie Cullum | Riaan Vosloo | Ross Stanley | Tim Giles

Following the vintage synths, stylistic mash-ups and perfect pop of Momentum, for his seventh studio album, Interlude, Jamie Cullum makes...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014

Jimmy Giuffre/Jim Hall Trio: Complete Studio Recordings

For once someone got the billing spot-on. Jim Hall wasn't employed just to strum the appropriate chords while Giuffre flitted...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Indo Jazz Fusions with Larry Adler

Clem Alford | Jeff Clyne | Jim Moyse | John Marshall | John Mayer | Keshav Sathe | Larry Adler | Stan Sulzmann

Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022

Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Arto Tunöboyaciyan | Bobby Thomas | Gergö Borlai | Hadrien Feraud | Jimmy Haslip | Katisse Buckingham | Scott Kinsey

Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020