John Pizzarelli: Rockin' In Rhythm
Pizzarelli is a poster-boy for the new mainstream, a personable vocalist and guitarist who flits easily between the parallel worlds...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010
Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis: Con-Soul & Jazz/Wild Bill Is Boss!
Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Les Spann & Mundell Lowe:
Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Jazz Artists Guild: Newport Rebels
This latest Candid remastered CD and LP stands up well in musical terms, with its backstory and its stylistically mixed...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024
Gene Ammons’ All Stars: Complete Recordings With Jackie Mclean & Mal Waldron
Gene Ammons may have been one of Prestige Records’ cash cows – responsible for shifting shed loads of albums, but...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2015
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie: Bird And Diz
As a neat counterpart to the Dial and Savoy reissues reviewed above, this single CD covers what one might call...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020
Sonny Red: Quartet, Quintet & Sextet (2-CDs)
It goes without saying that virtually every altoist in the late-1940s and 50s was infl uenced to some extent by...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2012
Annie Ross/Christopher Logue/Tony Kinsey Quintet: Loguerhythms – Songs From The Establishment
The rating here is specifically for those tracks that features La Ross hand-in-glove with Tony Kinsey's vibrant Quintet interpreting charts...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014
Charlie Parker: Bird and Diz
Mainly from 6 June, 1950, with Monk and Buddy Rich, this includes material not on the original LP, but frequently...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020
Oscar Peterson: Exclusively For My Friends
Bobby Durham | Ed Thigpen | Louis Hayes | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Sam Jones
The six-volume Exclusively For My Friends set forged new standards of sound recording when it was originally released on vinyl...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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