Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows
Unlike the excellent George Lewis and Louis Armstrong boxes from Storyville, which I have reviewed here in the past year,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014
Various: The Road To Jajouka
For centuries, a remote village in the southern Rif mountains of Morocco has been home to the ecstatic trance rituals...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Ethel Ennis & Ernestine Anderson: Four Classic Albums Plus
Baltimore-born Ennis (1932-2019) largely stayed close to home, only occasionally moving into and out of national awareness. Her Sings Lullabies...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025
Various Artists: Jazz At The Philharmonic Complete Live In Stockholm 1960
It has never been a perfect world, but if it were, then commemorative stamps would be issued, coins struck and...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Lem Winchester: New Faces At Newport/A Tribute To Clifford Brown
Don't know about nowadays, but the vibraphone was once regarded as the most difficult instrument to record; the sound of...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Paul Desmond: Glad to be Unhappy
Connie Kay | Gene Cherico | Gene Wright | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond
Today, for the majority of younger jazz fans/jazz students/musicians, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond is gone (he died in 1977) and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017
The Trio: Incantation: The Dawn Recordings 1970-1971
John Surman was in his headlong 20s when these sessions were recorded by the collective threesome known simply as The...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
Slowly Rolling Camera
Initially seeming to be some distance from Dave Stapleton's previous work in an acoustic setting, this has a carapace of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2014
Harold Land: Westward Bound!
Make sure you don’t underestimate tenor saxophonist Harold Land. The perspicacious re-issue duo of Zev Feldman and Cory Weeds, who...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021
Joe Farrell: Skate Board Park
Bob Magnusson | Chick Corea | Joe Farrell | Laurence Marable
When Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison left the John Coltrane quartet, the saxophonist who caught their ear was Chicago-born Joseph...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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