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 Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Al Hendrickson | Ann Graham | Art Lund | Benny Goodman | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Benny Goodman Quartet | Benny Goodman Trio | Betty Vann | Billie Holiday | Buddy Greco

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024

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 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 Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Properbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Review of Eric Reed: Groovewise

Eric Reed: Groovewise

Ben Williams | Eric Reed | Gregory Hutchinson | Seamus Blake

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the 1990s, Eric Reed was a fairly regular visitor to the UK. Sadly, some 20 years later, we...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Review of Naqsh Duo (Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi): Narrante

Naqsh Duo (Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi): Narrante

Golfam Khayam | Mona Matbou Riahi

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Guitar and clarinet: now there's a great jazz pairing. Didn't bebop – sort of – come out of Charlie Christian...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

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 Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Scott Colley

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Criss Cross boss-producer Gerry Teekens is astonishingly loyal to his artistes. Take Russian trumpeter Sipiagin, for years now an in-demand...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013

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

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