Review of Buddy Rich Orchestra: Just in Time: The Final Recording

Buddy Rich Orchestra: Just in Time: The Final Recording

Bob Bowlby | Buddy Rich | Cathy Rich | Chris Bacas | Dana Watson | Eric Miyashiro | Greg Gisbert | Jay Craig | Jim Martin | Kevin Richardson

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Daughter Cathy Rich’s note reports that this session was recorded at Ronnie Scott’s in 1986 using the Rolling Stones’ mobile...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Review of Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Alex Frye | Alicia Gardener-Trejo | Andrew Woodhead | Angie Wakefield | Charlotte Keeffe | Graham Kelly | Helen Papaioannou | Jonathan Thorne | Lee Griffiths | Matthew King

Leker

Rating: ★★★

In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021

Review of Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall

Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall

Ameen Atrash | Evgeni Maistrovski | Franck Dhersin | Michel Sajrawy | Valeri Lipets

Ozella

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in 2007, Writings on the Wall hasn't been sealed hermetically in the vaults for the past five years but...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of R+R=Now: Live

R+R=Now: Live

Robert Glasper

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

After the 2018 studio set Collagically Speaking comes a live album drawn from a month-long residency by Robert Glasper, biggest...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Review of Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby

Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby

Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro

Original Jazz Classics/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

Little needs to be said about this album, recorded live at New York's Village Vanguard in 1961, and documenting what...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023

Review of Billy Childs: The Winds of Change

Billy Childs: The Winds of Change

Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023

Review of Frank Kimbrough Quartet: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

Frank Kimbrough Quartet: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

Billy Drummond | Frank Kimbrough | Rufus Reid | Scott Robinson

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★★

This fascinating project brings together four extremely versatile musicians and all 70 known pieces of Monk magic, from the much-celebrated...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Feb/2019

Review of Dieter Ilg: B-A-C-H

Dieter Ilg: B-A-C-H

Dieter Ilg | Patrice Heral | Rainer Böhm

ACT9844-2

Rating: ★★★

Any jazz piano trio that chooses to take on the repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach must surely know that ultimately...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017

Review of Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is A Rare Thing

Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is A Rare Thing

Billy Higgins | Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | Jim Hall | Jimmy Garrison | Ornette Coleman | Scott Lafaro

Warner Rhino

Rating: ★★★★★

All of Ornette's classic Atlantic material has now been made available many times over but this reissued and repackaged collection...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2015

Review of Yoko Miwa Trio: Songs of Joy

Yoko Miwa Trio: Songs of Joy

Brad Barrett | Scott Goulding | Will Slater | Yoko Miwa

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

The new release from Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa has an appealing lockdown title. Who couldn't do with a little joy...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2021

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