Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Hullabaloo

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tomas Challenger

Singer Brigitte Beraha became a fifth member of the bassist-leader Dave Manington's new band Riff Raff following a successful performance...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Dave Brubeck: Early Years: The Singles Collection1950-52

Bill Smith | Bob Collins | Cal Tjader | Dave Brubeck | Dave Van Kreidt | Dick Collins | Fred Dutton | Herb Barman | Jack Weeks | Lloyd Davis

At the dawn of the 1950s, the Weiss brothers, who owned a pressing plant, founded Fantasy Records to take over...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2021

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz At Oberlin

Dave Brubeck | Lloyd Davis | Paul Desmond | Ron Crotty

In all his extensive discography, Dave Brubeck cited the albums Jazz at Oberlin and Jazz at the College of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Dave Holland Quintet: Seeds of Time

Dave Holland | Julian Priester | Kenny Wheeler | Marvin 'smitty' Smith | Steve Coleman

Between 1983 and 1987, Dave Holland recorded three albums with his quintet – Jumpin’ In, Seeds of Time and The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Dave Liebman: Fire

Dave Holland | Dave Liebman | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Werner

This album makes it impossible not to circle around the well-used cliché about how the texture, taste and bouquet of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Conly Harding Jones Taylor: Grass Roots

A raggedly forceful free jazz collective, featuring a horn frontline of baritone saxophonist Andrew Harding, and Matthew Shipp's alto sax...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Ndugu Chancler: 3 Brave Souls

Bob Sheppard | Darryl Jones | Dwight Trible | Francisco Torres | Grégoire Maret | John Beasley | Leon Mobley | Monet Owens | Ndugu Chancler | Steve Tavaglione

John Beasley, Darryl Jones and Ndugu Chancler are seasoned music pros (Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson:...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013

Etta Jones: So Warm/From The Heart

In the 1960s, Jones was Billie Holiday-lite; Oliver Nelson’s busy arrangements reinforce this, a shame because there’s fine singing amid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Hank Jones: Solo and With His Own Bands 1947-59

Arnold Fishkin | Barry Galbraith | Bobby Jaspar | Don Lamond | Donald Byrd | Eddie Jones | Elvin Jones | Hank Jones | Joe Wilder | John Smith

Perhaps not so celebrated in his own right as his brothers Thad and Elvin, and (in his own opinion) not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2024

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Niedersachsenhalle, Hannover

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The Dave Brubeck Quartet was nothing if not hardworking. Here they are at the outset of a State Department tour...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013