Miles Davis: Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings

Art Blakey | Dave Schildkraut | Horace Silver | J.J Johnson | Kenny Clarke | Lucky Thompson | Miles Davis | Percy Heath | Sonny Rollins | Thelonious Monk

Apart from six Blue Note sides that were recorded just a few days earlier than the first session here, this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/2024

Johnny Dankworth: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid's double-CD combines Dankworth's The Vintage Years, Collaboration, and England's Ambassador of Jazz albums with an EP taken from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Joe Harriott & Co: Helter Skelter: Live, Rare & Unreleased 1955-1963

Joe Harriott | Kurt Edelhagen | The Daily Mail International Jazz Festival All-Stars | The Melody Maker All-Stars

This is an exceptional release comprising entirely of rare Harriott recordings, most previously unreleased. It's an important documentation at three...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends

Andy Milne | Drew Gress | Mark Ferber | Ralph Alessi | Ravi Coltrane

Ralph Alessi, the New York trumpeter whose improvisations glimmer with understated surprises, has made two earlier ECM recordings (2013’s Baida...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

Argüelles Laginha Norbakken: Atlântico

Andreas Norbakken | Julian Argüelles | Mario Laginha

This might be a pan-European trio but it's truly a pan-global music as the album title suggests. It's their second...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Immanuel Wilkins: Omega

Immanuel Wilkins

The Blue Note label's talent-scouting skills continue to resurface under current label-boss Don Was. Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins first came...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2020

Karin Krog: The Many Faces of Karin Krog

Karin Krog

Thanks to executive producer Helge Westbye and the good people at Odin Records, the extraordinary depth and breadth of vocalist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2017

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Bob Mintzer | Christian McBride | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | John Scofield | Kenny Werner | Larry Goldings | Nguyên Lê | Peter Erskine | Vince Mendoza

Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Steve Turre: The Bones of Art

Frank Lacy | Kenny Davis | Pedro Martinez | Peter Washington | Robin Eubanks | Steve Davis | Steve Turre | Willie Jones III | Xavier Davis

Here's a masterclass for trombonists everywhere. The album title means not only ‘we're artists of the trombone’, but is also...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Humphrey Lyttelton: 1959

Armit | Bert Courtley | Bobby Pratt | Brian Brocklehurst | Brocklehurst | Coe | Eddie Blair | Eddie Harvey | Eddie Taylor | Humphrey Lyttelton

This is a successor to the earlier Lake reissue of Humph's mainstream octet albums from 1957-58 (see Jazzwise 132) and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010