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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