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
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
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
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Last Night at the Old Place
It may seem amazing that such an important document of British jazz history, the last night at Ronnie Scott’s ‘Old...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2018
Oscar Peterson: On a Clear Day
Louis Hayes | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Oscar Peterson
This particular version of the Peterson trio was not together for very long. It followed the departure of George Mraz...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023
Phil Robson Trio: The Cut Off Point
Gene Calderazzo | Phil Robson | Ross Stanley
The wonder is that it's taken Robson so long to set up such a trio. What doesn't surprise however is...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015
Lenny McBrowne And The 4 Souls: Complete Recordings Featuring Gloria Smyth
This was a wonderful swinging little band. Like a West Coast answer to the East's Horace Silver Quintet or The...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011
Abdullah Ibrahim: Dream Time
There have been times in recent Ekaya concerts where it's seemed that Abdullah Ibrahim has taken a bit of a...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Jules Buckley with the Heritage Orchestra and Ghost-Note: The Breaks
Regular perusers of YouTube will have seen the benign bearded face of Jules Buckley smiling beatifically amidst the hyper-rapid edits...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2021
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