Grant Green: First Recordings
Elvin Jones | Gene Ramey | Grant Green | Harold Mabern | Jimmy Forrest
As every jazz historian will tell you, a shedload of momentous recordings were made in 1959, including Kind Of Blue,...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013
Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook Volume II
Ben Crosland | Dave O'Higgins | John Etheridge | Sebastiaan de Krom | Steve Lodder
All respect to Crosland for pursuing his love for Ray (and Dave) Davies with this second splendid volume celebrating their...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019
WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop
Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Neil Blandford | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower
London quintet WorldService Project’s debut album proper makes good on the promise shown by the handful of EPs they’ve already...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013
Anaïs Reno: At PizzaExpress Live - In London
Anaïs Reno | Dave Green | Josh Morrison | Pete Malinverni
As anyone who heard Swiss-born, NYC-based vocalist Anaïs Reno’s debut album, Lovesome Thing, will know, her musicality at the age...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2024
Various Artists: All Night Long OST
Originally released on CD in 2004, the 1960s soundtrack CD specialist label Harkit reissue this British jazz soundtrack: a fascinating...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Pee Wee Russell / Coleman Hawkins: Jazz Reunion
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz describes Candid as ‘short-lived but highly respected label for the quality of its sessions’.Part-owned...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022
Dinah Washington: Wake The Town & Tell The People!
Short-lived she may have been – just 39 at her death in 1963 - and much-married too (seven times!), Dinah...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2025
Tubby Hayes: Tubby The Tenor/Tubby's Back In Town/Boston ‘64
Tubby Hayes continues to impress today in much the same way he did way back when these remarkable recordings were...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Stoop Quintet: Confession
Alex Munk | Dave Smyth | Flo Moore | Jonathan Brigg | Sam Miles
Threads Orchestra, one of Troyka bandmates Kit Downes’ and Chris Montague's tangled career branches, have close ties to the University...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2016
WorldService Project: Serve
Arthur O'Hara | Dave Morecroft | Harry Pope | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower
Co-produced by Liran Donin of punk-jazz fellow-travellers Led Bib, WorldService Project's fourth album is concerned with psychology and politics as...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2018
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