Clifford Brown & The Ladies Of Jazz: Sarah Vaughan/Helen Merrill/Dinah Washington

Barry Galbraith | Bobby Donaldson | Clark Terry | Clifford Brown | Danny Banks | Dinah Washingon | Ernie Wilkins | George Morrow | Harold Land | Helen Merrill

Though employing a trumpet to shadow a singer has long been a regular device only on a few notable occasions...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nothing if not prolific and following quickly on from last year's superlative solo Live In Marciac set this trio studio...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: April/2012

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The year 1958 was a big one for the Dave Brubeck Quartet. A tour of Europe was immediately followed by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell and Angels

Billy Cox | Buddy Miles | Jimi Hendrix | Juma Sultan | Lonnie Youngblood | Mitch Mitchell

The Hendrix Estate's latest attempt to trawl through the guitarist's well plundered vault of unreleased recordings to extract a supposedly...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2013

Fela Kuti: Box Set 6 Curated By Idris Elba

Fela Anikulapo Kuti | plus various personnel inc Tony Allen | Roy Ayers

The rediscovery of Fela was one of the major musical events of the 2000s. Box sets, reissues, club nights, west...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024

Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan

Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Pepper Addams | Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Yusef Lateef

As far as titles go, nothing could be more appropriate for a character as brilliant and turbulent as Charles Mingus....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024

Barney Kessel: The Contemporary Years – Selected Recordings 1953-57

Al Hendrickson | Andre Previn | Arnold Ross | Barney Kesssel | Bill Perkins | Bob Cooper | Bud Shank | Buddy Clark | Buddy Collette | Chuck Thompson

Kessel’s Contemporary albums have often been reissued, what with an earlier series on Original Jazz Classics, and then a pair...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024

Michael Cain: Solo

Andrew McCormack

The Brooklyn-based pianist has recorded with Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane, but goes it alone here with a mostly unconvincing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Heather Masse and Dick Hyman: Lock My Heart

A young mainstream vocalist and veteran pianist go down tin pan alley together catching some of the warmth and melancholy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Mike Holober: Balancing Act

The New York pianist-composer Mike Holober keeps his large ensemble aesthetics intact (a long-running ex guest director of HR Frankfurt...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016