Frank Wess: Magic 201

Frank Wess | Kenny Barron | Rufus Reid | Russell Malone | Wynard Harper

Kansas City tenorman Frank Wess, who died last October at the grand old age of 91, was best known for...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

Kenny Baker: Live at the BBC 1957

Bill Le Sage | Derek Collins | Derek Smith | George Chisholm | Harry Hayes | Harry Klein | Keith Bird | Keith Christie | Kenny Baker | Lennie Bush

In his latter years, Kenny Baker reformed the Dozen, and played several festivals and some residencies at the then flourishing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Sphere: The Complete Live at Umbria Jazz

Ben Riley | Buster Williams | Charlie Rouse | Kenny Barron

Although as their name suggests Sphere, were formed with more than a nod to Thelonious Monk, (Rouse and Riley having...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025

Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums

Alfred Lion at Blue Note liked to record lots of material by his chosen artists in a short space of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Shawnn Monteiro: You Are There

Dave Zinno | Joe Farnsworth | John Allmark | Josh Bruneau | Kenny Barron | Mike Renzi | Nat Reeves | Shawnn Monteiro | Steve Davis | Steve Langone

Monteiro is the daughter of the late bassist Jimmy Woode, and dedicates this album to him. Father and daughter did...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song

Bill Frisell | Dave Holland | Kenny Wheeler | Lee Konitz

Wheeler once told me that the Angel Song album took shape out of a series of discussions he had with...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2024

Lee Konitz: Frescalalto

Kenny Barron | Kenny Washington | Lee Konitz | Peter Washington

Konitz, who will turn 90 next October, continues to plough a lonely furrow. Despite his occasional stylistic influence on such...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017

Kenny Werner Trio: Animal Crackers

Ari Hoenig | Johannes Weidenmueller | Kenny Werner

So the Pirouet label resurfaces after time out, flying home on the wings of one of their favourite pianists. This...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018

Kenny Werner: Solo In Stuttgart

Kenny Werner

An absorbing set from Werner, which for this writer inevitably brings to mind an equally impressive but totally different solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019