Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Ron Carter | Tony Williams | Wayne Shorter

This four disc set contains five full length concerts of Miles Davis’ legendary “second quintet,” recorded during their European tour...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Album Interview: Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud: Last Spring

Bugge Wesseltoft | Henning Kraggerud

Although most of Wesseltoft's work has been released by his own Jazzland label, including his hugely influential New Conception of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Album Interview: Django Bates’ Belovèd: The Study of Touch

Django Bates | Peter Bruun | Petter Eldh

In a world of piano trios, Belovèd are a world apart. A decade on from their first coalescence, this is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk & Soul

Adolpho Acosta | Bruce Conte | Chester Thompson | David Eskridge | David Garibaldi | Emilio Castillo | Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia | Jerry Cortez | Lenny Pickett | Marc van Wageningen

Get out your red zimmer, baby, you're going out to dance. Well, what can you say? This wasn't so much...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2021

Bing Crosby: Bing In Dixieland

Universal is behind a massive new reissue programme of Bing’s work, and this is one of several long unavailable albums...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Harold Danko: Lost in the Breeze

A consummate veteran pianist, who's worked with practically all of the cool west coast luminaries, is still in relaxed swingin’...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Album Interview: Corea, Clarke & White: Forever

Bill Connors | Chaka Khan | Chick Corea | Jean-Luc Ponty | Lenny White | Stanley Clarke

The real treat for Return To Forever fans comes in the first half of the first CD with the rhythmic...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2011

Album Interview: Pulled by Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways

Neil Charles | Pete Wareham | Seb Rochford

Contemporary jazz is a spectrum and there are few musician-composers in the field that epitomise its openness more than the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

World Sanguine Report: Skeleton Blush

A top large ensemble led by jazz-wayward singer-songwriter/guitarist/arranger Andrew Plummer is the missing link between Zorn, Turnage, Satchmo, The Birthday...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Jack Teagarden: This is Teagarden! + Chicago And All That Jazz!

This is post-Armstrong All Stars Teagarden, and two high points in what was the evening of his career, firstly a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019