Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38
Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024
John Taylor Sextet: Eye To Eye: Live 1971
Chris Laurence | Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann | Tony Levin
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
Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy Sessions
Charlie Parker’s career on recordings are dominated by his affiliation with the Savoy, Dial and Clef labels with an ever...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016
Sun Ra: At The Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-77
Two very different Record Store Day releases from the Saturnic Mr Ra, both featuring previously unheard music and both revealing...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2024
Don Rendell Sextet: The Odysseus Suite
Don Rendell | Jack Thorncroft | Michael Garrick | Peter Shade | Stan Robinson | Trevor Tomkins
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: Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead
Ellen Brekken | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ivar Loe Bjornstad
That Mollestad would love to have played on Miles' Live/Evil recordings is the giveaway. This is a guitarist whose writing...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021
Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings
Prior to the release of this remarkable discovery of 17 unissued 1965 Half Note recordings by Wes Montgomery and the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were
Bill Laurance | Michael League
Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
The Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (Deluxe Expanded Edition)
Colin Bailey | Monte Budwig | Vince Guaraldi
A sumptuous triple vinyl/double CD and hi-res download reissue of Guaraldi's famous third album, first issued on Fantasy in 1962,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023
Album Interview: Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: The Ever Fonky Lowdown
A consistent strand running through Marsalis' vast discography is the ‘issues record’, with both historical references and topical resonances. Draw...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2020
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