Third Ear Band: Alchemy: Remastered and Expanded Edition

Dave Tomlin | Glen Sweeny | John Peel | Mel Davis | Paul Minns | Richard Coff

As uncategorisable today as they were back in the high hippie summers of 1968 and 1969, Third Ear Band had...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2019

Slowly Rolling Camera: Silver Shadow

Dave Stapleton | Deri Roberts | Elliot Bennett | Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Stuart McCallum | Verneri Pohjola | Victoria Stapleton

Setting up Edition Records in 2008 certainly made a dent in pianist/composer Dave Stapleton’s performing career. That ‘cottage industry’ label...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2024

Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums

Art Taylor | Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Donald Byrd | Duke Pearson | Herbie Hancock | Jackie McLean | Laymon Jackson | Pepper Adams

The title of the first of the four Blue Note albums here is apt, as Off To The Races is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023

The Basie-ites: How High The Moon

A Basie 10-piece with Barry Harris, and a sextet with Jimmy Jones on piano are on show here with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Seth McFarlane: Music Is Better Than Words

Alan Broadbent | Andy Martin | Chuck Berghofer | Chuck Findlay | Joel McNeely | Larry Koonse | Norah Jones | Pete Christlieb | Peter Erskine | Sara Bareilles

If you’re the producer of TV's Family Guy and now the director of a current feature film (Ted), presumably you...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Lee Ritenour: Overtime

Swift reissue for this 2004 session by the fusion guitarist with some fine collaborators including Ernie Watts, Dave Grusin and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Ex-Woody Herman/Dave Holland baritone sax specialist in combination with an organ trio here plays consummate straightahead....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Al Cohn/Richie Kamuca/Bill Perkins: The Brothers!

The shade of Lester Young hovers over this delightful three–tenor conversation from 1958 with a hard–swinging Hank Jones quartet in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

Archie Shepp | Art Davis | Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

On 9 December 1964, Coltrane and his ‘Classic Quartet’ recorded A Love Supreme, which was certified Gold in 2001 for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Lurlean Hunter: The Velvet Voice

The entire four-album output of this greatly underrated 1950s singer is collected here on 2CDs, accompanied by Quincy Jones, Ernie...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012