Stan Getz Quartet: At Birdland 1961

Jimmy Garrison | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz | Steve Kuhn

Just three short months separates these unauthorised low-fi Birdland airshots and an album, which was to spark the biggest worldwide...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

Liane Carroll: Ballads

Barry Altschul | Gary Peacock | Mark Levinson | Paul Bley

While you're grateful for one, possibly two, heart-stopping moments on your average CD, with a Liane Carroll album you soon...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2019

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Paint

Kevin Shea | Moppa Elliott | Ron Stabinsky

Not taking yourself too seriously is something the band abbreviated as MOPDtK take rather seriously. MOPDtK is made up of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Kai Winding: Solo and Kai Olé

Billy Byers | Clark Terry | Danny Bank | Dick Garcia | Doc Severinsen | Eddie Wasserman | George West | Gus Johnson | Hal Gaylor | Jimmy Maxwell

The first appearance on CD of two Winding LPs from his period at Verve in the early 1960s, these were...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul

Cyrus Chestnut | Dezron Douglas | Eric Reed | Willie Jones III

Only recently it seems I was commending the duo pairing of Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan as a master-class in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010

Chet Baker: Chet is Back

Originally on RCA, this 1962 set was recorded in Rome shortly after Chet left jail, and long regarded as among...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

The Zeniths: Makin' The Scene

An African-American close harmony group from the early 1960s with more affinity to doo-wop than jazz heritage, The Zeniths bring...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Jimmy Greene: While Looking Up

Aaron Goldberg | Jimmy Greene | Kendrick Scott | Lage Lund | Reuben Rogers | Stefon Harris

The heavyweight support on American multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Greene's latest release are long-term acquaintances, who since recording with Greene, have developed...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2020

Jazz at the Philharmonic: Complete Live in Stockholm – November 21, 1960

Art Davis | Benny Carter | Candido Camero | Cannonball Adderley | Chuck Lampkin | Coleman Hawkins | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Byas | JJ Johnson | Jo Jones

Here's an entire concert from JATP's 1960 European tour, something of a last hurrah for the formula, Solar's three-CD pack...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2012

Naima: Bye

Enrique Ruiz | Luis Torregrosa | Rafael Ramos Sania

Let's hear it for Naima. This acoustic piano trio from Valencia has developed its own distinctive voice, and shaded by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016