Billie Holiday: The Complete 1952-1957 Small Group Studio Sessions
Featuring over six hours of music, this 5CD retrospective from Masterworks collects together material from 10 albums recorded by the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014
Betty Davis: The Columbia Years
Betty Davis | Joe Sample | Wilton Felder
Anybody with a passing interest in pop culture will know that ‘Miles’’ ex is really a wholly inadequate moniker for...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2016
Kyle Eastwood: Candid Kyle
Andrew McCormack | Dave O'Higgins | Graeme Blevins | Graeme Flowers | Kyle Eastwood | Martyn Kaine
‘Go whistle!’ Kyle Eastwood (perhaps) told his dad, legendary film actor and director Clint, before going into the studio to...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2017
Erik Truffaz Quartet: Lune Rouge
Arthur Hnatek | Benoît Corboz | Erik Truffaz | Marcello Giuliani
Veteran Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz wanted new ideas for Lune Rouge, so he invited young drummer Arthur Hnatek, a recent...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2020
Javon Jackson: Expression
Corcoran Holt | Javon Jackson | McLenty Hunter | Orrin Evans
For whatever reason, Javon Jackson has never really made the A lists of contemporary tenor players. Maybe it's his sound,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015
Joey Alexander: Eclipse
Eric Harland | Joey Alexander | Joshua Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers
Even Mozart, the quintessential musical child prodigy, couldn't lay claim to two Grammy-nominated albums by the age of 14. Bali-born...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2018
Romanovskà–Tichý–Hrubrý & Blažíková: Jsem Navždy Jedním Z Nás/I Am One of Us Forever
Anna Romanovská | Hana Blažíková | Michal Hrubrý | Petr Tichý
Double-bassist Petr Tichý is a chameleonic presence on the Prague jazz and hybrid improv scene. He teaches, plays jazz and...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2022
Tom Ridout: No Excuses
I know how it goes. You're straight out of music college with a couple of awards under your belt. It's...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2018
Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones
As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015
Meilana Gillard: Dream Within A Dream
David Lyttle | Meilana Gillard | Neil O'Loghlen
I've yet to find out why a London-born, Ohio-raised, NYC-educated saxophonist now makes her home in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. But...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017
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