Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet: Cherokee/Legendary Studio Sessions

Al Lucas | Hank Jones | Milt Hinton | Osie Johnson | Paul Gonsalves | Roy Haynes | Shadow Wilson | Sonny Stitt | Tommy Potter | Wendell Marshall

In a parallel universe, if Usain Bolt had been cast as a saxophonist, he would have surely been Sonny Stitt...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2018

The South Trio: Elegy For A Raver

Ashley Molloy | Eddie Hick | William South

The boys are back in town, even bigger and bolder than their in-your-face debut Sugar Rush. If it embraced the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Mole: RGB

Hernan Hecht | Mark Aanderud | Stomu Takeishi

Mole remain one of the more satisfying bands on the RareNoise roster. Now augmented by Takeishi's bass, RGB is an...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Fred Frith/Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall

Avant-guitarist Frith and sound artist Mori have worked together for years now and this collaboration, taped in 2015, is inspired...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

David Lopato: Gendhing for a Spirit Rising

The New York-based pianist/percussionist has a long-term fascination with Javanese Gamelan and other south Asian musics, and on this 2CD...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Eugene Chadbourne: The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session

This 1977 recording, originally on cassette, documents Chadbourne's idiosyncratic guitar playing before he began his long association with Leo Records,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Nat King Cole and Quincy Jones: Live in Zurich 1960

Long bootlegged, this is the first ‘official’ release of Cole's broadcast with the Jones orchestra in 1960, and with great...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Anders and Christian Jormin: Provenance

A Swedish duo of long-time Bobo Stenson bass man Anders and his pianist/percussionist brother Christian perform patient, quiet yet tenderly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Chet Baker: Chet is Back

Originally on RCA, this 1962 set was recorded in Rome shortly after Chet left jail, and long regarded as among...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Olivier/Abbasi: Oasis

With its understated Indian percussion instrumentation, this collaboration between French harpist Isabelle Olivier and New York-based guitarist Rez Abbasi catches...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020