Duncan Lamont Big Band: As If By Magic…
The background to this highly welcome release is explained in the booklet essay by writer David McKee. Back in 2011,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2017
Graham Bond: Live At The BBC And Other Stories
Jack Bruce once revealed that in reality Cream was the Ornette Coleman Trio, but neither he or Ginger Baker ever...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016
Mark Turner: Live At The Village Vanguard
Jason Palmer | Joe Martin | Jonathan Pinson | Mark Turner
This could be called the Village Vanguard rite of passage. A live album from one of the most storied of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World
This album, cut in the slipstream of the iconic Expansions has aged very well, consolidating any claim Smith might want...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra: African Space Program
Released in a series of Enja Jazz Classics, this is one of only two big-band albums directed by the then...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014
Phil France: The Swimmer
Soundtracks for unmade films were a cliché even before Phil France joined the Cinematic Orchestra 20 years ago. Still, he...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2017
Randy Weston: The African Nubian Suite
The inclusion of the long deceased Melba Liston in the credits is not a minor detail. The trombonist penned the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017
Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly: British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62
Acrobat (with the aid of researcher-writer Simon Spillett) have done it again. Here's a 24-track compilation that just keeps giving....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018
Ray Charles: The Singles Collection 1949-62
If ever a 5-CD set were devised to act as the curtain raiser for the recently-issued True Genius 6-CD set...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022
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