Johnny Mbizo Dyani: Rejoice/Together
Like his fellow Blue Notes, bassist Johnny Dyani left his native South Africa in the mid-1960s, in the aftermath of...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: October/2014
Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969
It has long been the ambition of many jazz musicians to either lead their own big band or record with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2015
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
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
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
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
Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: Luminissence
I’m sure it has been mentioned before, but this Luminessence series of classic ECM re-releases are actually better than the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/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
John Coltrane: Blue Train
Forgive me for a moment’s fictional indulgence, but I can just imagine a production meeting over at American Jazz Classics’...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2020
Noga Ritter: Ima
An immensely promising debut (as leader) from Noga Ritter, an Israeli-born, London-based singer, composer and bandleader, Ima (Hebrew for ‘mother’)...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2023
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