Mark Lockheart: Dreamers

Dave Smith | Elliot Galvin | Mark Lockheart | Tom Herbert

If jazz is the music of sweet certain surprise, then Lockheart is the man for you. His last two Edition...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Spring in Stockholm: Live at Konserthuset 1959

Art Farmer | Bill Crow | Dave Bailey | Gerry Mulligan

The quartet Gerry Mulligan fronted with Art Farmer from April 1958 until the late summer of 1959 was, according to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024

Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace

Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Colosseum: Transmissions: Live at the BBC

Barbara Thompson | Chris Farlowe | Dave ‘Clem’ Clempson | Dave Greenslade | Dick Heckstall-Smith | James Litherland | Jon Hiseman | Louis Cennamo | Mark Clarke | Neil Ardley

Just when you thought there couldn't be more Colosseum cuts to be excavated, behold, you doubters, six more CDs from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021

Stacey Kent: The Boy Next Door

Colin Oxley | Curtis Schwartz | Dave Chamberlain | David Newton | Jim Tomlinson | Matt Home | Stacey Kent

Released in 2003, this collection of songs associated with some of her musical heroes was Kent’s last Candid release and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023

McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

Christian Sands | Corcoran Holt | Dave Stryker | Donald Harrison | Eddie Henderson | Eric Reed | Eric Wheeler | McClenty Hunter Jr | Stacy Dillard

Drummer McClenty Hunter Jr knows all about the groove roots of hard bop – he started out in gospel music,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Joe leader: Seductive Sax

This is one smooth jazz cliché after another: a live date at the Pheasantry, for the Dave Koz-recommended saxophonist....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Billy Strayhorn | Bob Wilber | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dick Wellstood | Duke Ellington | George Duvivier | Ozzie Bailey | Panama Francis | Wendell Marshall

The original album of this title was a single LP of Clark and Bob with Wilber's old sidekick Dick Wellstood...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Dave Douglas: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid

A wiser man than I on the Jazzwise crew has already named this as one of his top archive releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016