Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter
Betty Carter | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks | Kenny Washington
A feature on Betty Carter in the Village Voice in the late 1970s feared she might die an unknown genius...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019
Sonny Rollins Trio: Live In Europe 1959
Henry Grimes | Joe Harris | Kenny Clarke | Pete LaRoca | Sonny Rollins
Claiming to collect together in one place all the live recordings from Rollins' 1959 European visit, this catches him five...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
The V.I.P. Trio: Standards Vol. 2
Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore
A quick follow-up by Fresh Sound to the Vol.1 which I reviewed in Jazzwise 217, this has the same back-story...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017
Fredrik Kronkvist: Kronicles
Fredrik Kronkvist | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Martin Sjostedt | Orrin Evans
If proof is required that there are still some musicians in Sweden who can swing hard and soulfully, check out...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Feb/2019
Miroslav Vitous: Journey's End
John Surman | John Taylor | Jon Christensen | Miroslav Vitous
Some may lament Kenny Kirkland's replacement by John Taylor in this band, something like Vitous' third quartet recording on ECM....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019
Samuel Eagles Quartet: Next Beginning
Eric Ford | Ferg Ireland | Ralph Wyld | Samuel Eagles
The ‘F-IRE presents’ series is a nice way of getting to know some of the emerging talents associated with the...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Defunkt: Live At Channel Zero
Bill Bickford | Joe Bowie | John Mulkerin | Kenny Martin | Ronny Drayton
Any recording by the legendary New York ensemble is a cause for celebration but this one, nine years old, even...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2016
Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn
Dexter Gordon | Kenny Drew | Larry Marable | Leroy Vinnegar
In a perfect world, had things not gone all possession, penitentiary and parole boards, the 1950s could have been Dexter...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
Eivind Opsvik: Overseas IV
Brandon Seabrook | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Malaby
The instrument at the heart of this recording by the prolific New Yorkbased Norwegian bassist Eivind Opsvik is the harpsichord....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012
Rez Abbasi & Junction: Behind The Vibration
Ben Stivers | Kenny Grohowski | Mark Shim | Rez Abbasi
Abbasi's never lacked the courage to explore different musics, so the name of his new band, Junction, is most apt...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016
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