Nucleus: Live at the BBC
The 14-CD boxed set of Barbara Thompson at the BBC that the Repertoire label produced in 2020 looked like a...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2022
Cannonball Adderley: ‘Dis Here’
At this stage in the game, there's no real need to analyse Cannonball's virtues at any great length to learned...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2011
Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions of Django Reinhardt
There have been numerous attempts to produce box sets that cover the range of Django Reinhardt’s work. Among examples reviewed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2019
Miles Davis: Manchester Concert
Most reissues on American Jazz Classics are of a famous album, with or without bonus tracks, whereas 1951-57 Studio Recordings...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014
Thelonious Monk: Genius Of Modern Music
This is classic stuff, highlighting Monk's first six sessions under his own name and thus his debut versions of ‘‘Round...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2019
Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49
We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Harry South: The Songbook
For this writer, pianist Harry South was always the quiet one with the moustache and goatee beard. Coming onto the...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017
Mike Westbrook Concert Orchestra: Marching Song Vol 1 and 2 Plus Bonus
Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017
Tony Coe: Zeitgeist
Recorded in 1976, the year punk broke in a burst of pomposity-pricking primitivism, this Brit-jazz rarity had the nerve to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016
Mike Stern: All Over The Place
If you thought Big Neighbourhood, Stern's impressive run out from a couple of years ago tapped a diverse range of...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012
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