Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet: Here and Now/Another Git Together/… and John Lewis

Later editions of the Jazztet from 1960-2 with Harold Mabern and Cedar Walton, but still with the band’s clear identity,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Eugene Chadbourne: The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session

This 1977 recording, originally on cassette, documents Chadbourne's idiosyncratic guitar playing before he began his long association with Leo Records,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Monnette Sudler: In My Own Way

Kenny Kellen | Mohamed Al-Jabry | Monnette Sudler | Newman T Baker | Oliver Collins

Before Hedwig Mollestadt, Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn; before even Emily Remler, there was Philly-born Monnette Sudler, ploughing a rather...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022

Landgren/Wollny/Danielsson/Haffner: 4 Wheel Drive

Lars Danielsson | Michael Wollny | Nils Landgren | Wolfgang Haffner

This is a project with a commendably clear conceptual title that smartly underlines the equal directional input by all members...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2019

Various Artists: Blue Note Re:imagined

Blue Note Re:imagined shines a light on the fertile British scene and connects it to the tradition by inviting 15...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: November/2020

Andrea Motis and WDR Big Band Cologne: Colors and Shadows

Andrea Motis | Mike Mossman | WDR Big Band Cologne

The Spanish trumpeter and singer Andrea Motis was a child prodigy, and one of the stable of young musicians mentored...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022

Diego Urcola Quartet ft. Paquito D’Rivera: El Duelo

Diego Urcola

The cover artwork sees Urcola and D'Rivera back-to-back, trumpet and clarinet raised a la pistols at dawn. The gauntlet, we're...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020

Art Farmer: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

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

In an illustrious recording career that spanned 50 years (1948-98), Art Farmer seldom failed to impress. Whereas his contemporaries were...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016

Tina Brooks: True Blue

Art Taylor | Duke Jordan | Freddie Hubbard | Sam Jones | Tina Brooks

Tina Brooks was the most enigmatic of all the Blue Note recording artists. This album, the only one issued under...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2022

Gato Barbieri: Fenix

Anthony Jackson | Chuck Loeb | David Charles | Dennis Chambers | Frank McComb | Gato Barbieri | Gene Golden | Jeff Golub | Joe Beck | Lenny White

Fenix remains an outstanding recording of its decade and even now has a towering presence. It took Barbieri a decade...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014