Ann-Margret: Songs from ‘The Swinger’

Despite compositions by Previn, charts by Marty Paich and Quincy Jones, the Swedish actress was not a singer by trade,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Paisean

Ex-Middlesex 1980s uni graduates, the experienced saxophonist Ed Jones and pianist-composer Steve Plews, convene for a set balancing hard bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Swings

Good late period Hawk with a quintet featuring Thad Jones – this was a well-known Crown L P, but with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Patti Bown: Plays Big Piano

The reissued Columbia debut album of the Seattle-based protégé of Quincy Jones from 1959, reveals her as one of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

John Coltrane: The Complete Sun Ship Session

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

Recently released on double CD in the USA by Verve/Impulse! and now available in a lip-smacking limited edition triple vinyl...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: February/2014

Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

Billie Holiday: Four Classic Albums: Second Set

Art Taylor | Bobby Timmons | Clarence Sharpe | Curtis Fuller | George Coleman | Horace Silver | Lee Morgan | Paul Chambers | Pepper Adams | Philly Joe Jones

Featuring just under two and a half hours of music, Avid Jazz's 2CD set brings together four albums recorded by...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2019

Ego Ella May: Honey For Wounds

Alfa Mist | Andrew Ashong | Ashley Henry | Eddie Hicks | Ego Ella May | Eun | Joe Armon Jones | Maralisa | Melo Zed | Mini D

Ego Ella May's sophomore album, Honey for Wounds, finds her smooth, sage voice chronicling societal ills and personal heartache in...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: July/2020

Bill Mobley: Live at Smoke

The Monday night regular slot for the fine Booker Little-infl uenced trumpeter's Thad Jones/Gil Evans-ish big band is recorded live...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Mark de Clive-Lowe/The Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra: Take the Space

This top nu-jazz producer rises to the challenge of putting the lush, Thad Jones-like big band arrangements of this Dutch...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013