Miles Davis: Workin'/The Musings Of Miles

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Garland | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | John Lewis | Jones | Max Roach | Miles Davis | Oscar Pettiford

Christmas came early for me, thanks to the arrival of these public-domain reissues, all of them except Kind Of Blue...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013

Ray Charles: The Complete ABC Recordings 1959-1961

Ray Charles

Such was Ray Charles's profile when he left Atlantic that he immediately secured one of the most lucrative deals of...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012

Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts

Betty Glamann | Hank Jones | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach | Oscar Pettiford | Sonny Rollins

Two more beautifully-presented and splendid-sounding reissues from UK indie New Land, who, after the recent Mingus box set (see review...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2024

Kuzu: All Your Ghosts in One Corner

Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis leads an exhaustingly relentless free jazz sax-guitar trio set; performing live immediately pre-lockdown, the recording has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Album Interview: Christian McBride Big Band: Bringin' It

Brandee Younger | Brandon Lee | Carl Marachi | Christian McBride | Dan Pratt | Douglas Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | James Burton | Joe McDonough

Christian McBride has an ebullient character – it bursts from his double-bass and it expands naturally to his writing and...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2017

Wolff Parkinson White: Favours

Oddly but attractively packaged in a spongey red material, this CD has an undiluted yet overactive contemporary improv-electronica as backdrop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Zrazy: Dream On

A Dublin-based female vocal/piano duo in the lineage of such affecting jazzy singer-songwriters as Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Crawford and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Randi Tytingvåg: Three

Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke | Massimo Biolcati

The Norwegian vocalist Randi Tytingvag demonstrates a warm, attractive tone throughout her acoustic trio's set of mainly covers that have...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Ernie Watts: Chariots of Fire

This is the commercial side of Watts, presented with relentless bad taste on Quincy Jones's label, and showing none of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015