Wendell Harrison: Dreams of A Love Supreme
Originally released in 1980, the first reissue of this somewhat obscure album was on the Tidal Waves Music label was...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022
Sidney De Paris, Tommy Ladnier, Lee Collins: Great Jazz, Great Trumpets
This eclectic compilation was first issued by Jazz Crusade as Rare Cuts, Upbeat having now acquired this American label. Sidney...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023
David ‘Fathead’ Newman: The Soulful Mr. Newman
David Newman died just a month after the final album (The Blessing) included in this compilation of his decade of...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012
Sonny Rollins: Holding The Stage: Road Shows Vol.4
The earliest music here is a straight reissue, down to the sleeve typo, of the 1959 set reviewed favourably in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Trio
There's some serious stuff on the first two reissues, especially the Monk Trio. Mostly consisting of the three relevant Prestige...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015
Tubby Hayes: Hip! The Untold Story of Tubby Hayes 1965
R&B Records has a habit of delving into the dark recesses of long-gone jazz radio and they’ve done it again...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022
Various Artists: DJ Natoya Presents Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz Funk from Electric Bird 1978-1987
Ah, it’s guilty pleasure time. Japanese jazz-funk is a many-splendoured thing, with various highways and byways to get pleasantly lost...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios
The EJC label is well named in this case, although the contents render redundant an earlier CD of Monk’s first...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016
Sonny Rollins: And The Big Brass, Trio and Quintet
While there are perhaps no absolute classics, here is an interesting overview of one of Rollins's best and most prolific...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012
Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
Trump is beyond satire and shame, making artistic opposition seem hopeless. Social media’s intimate propaganda walls up minds that might...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Feb/2019
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