Roy Haynes: Three Classic Albums: Plus We Three/Just Us/Out Of The Afternoon/Jazz Abroad

Adrian Acea | Ake Persson | Bjarne Nerem | Eddie De Haas | Henry Grimes | Joe Benjamin | Paul Chambers | Phineas Newborn | Richard Wyands | Roland Kirk

For this writer one of the most enduring images of the bebop era is a photograph of Charlie Parker being...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966

Al Casey | Al Hall | Al Hendrickson | Allen Reuss | Alton Moore | Annie Ross | Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Barrett Deems | Big Chief Russell Moore

This impressive multi-disc box set comprises three main components: firstly the 1946-47 singles that Armstrong made for RCA during the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2021

Pharoah Sanders Quartet: Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980

Curtis Lundy | Idris Muhammad | John Hicks | Pharoah Sanders

It's fair to say that even though two tracks from Fabrik are duplicated elsewhere (‘You Gotta Have Freedom’ and ‘Easy...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2023

Täpp Collective: i do what i like//i like what i do

Abbi Phillips | Alex Hill | Ayo Salawu | Contours | Delali and Chantelle Gabriella Jazz | Is Phi | Rebekah Reid | Rhodri Thomas

Täpp Collective’s debut album, i do what i like//i like what i do, is a voyage through an intriguing, otherworldly...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: November/2021

Wolf & Clark: Expedition 2

Christian McBride | Darryl Johns | Hailey Niswanger | Michael Wolff | Mike Clark | Wallace Roney

The Wolf/Clark nexus is the heart of this album, as the splendidly energetic opening duet of ‘Clark Bar’ attests. ‘Gingerbread...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015

Freddie Hubbard Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach

Freddie Hubbard was already the undisputed heavyweight champion of jazz trumpet when he played the delightfully named Hamburg jazz club...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Balimaya Project: Wolo So

Percussionist-composer Yahael Camara Onono forges a link between his West African Mande traditions with brassy London-jazz Afro-beat interests in an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Let Spin

Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller

Let Spin, a new prog-jazz supergroup, has a foot in both the London and Manchester camps of the UK's alt....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

The Loire Allstars

Anita Wardell | Dave O'Higgins | Mike Gorman | Oli Hayhurst | Tristan Mailliot

From the very opening upbeat to Alan Brandt and Bob Haymes's terrific ‘That's All’, recorded by Nat King Cole, Frank...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2014

Vesna Pisarovic: With Suspicious Minds

They might well be the first jazz group to play Elvis and it's a wacky attempt by an ex-Eurovision Croatian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012