Robert Fripp: Exposures
Call me a heathen if you like, but that extraordinary first album In The Court Of… apart, I’ve never really...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2022
VWCR: Noise Of Our Time
Ken Vandermark | Nate Wooley | Sylvie Courvoisier | Tom Rainey
Chicago reeds flamethrower Ken Vandermark can be a fearsomely uncompromising free-improviser, but his resourcefulness as a comparably powerful composer both...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon
Alex Roth | Corrie Dick | Laura Jurd | Lauren Kinsella
Young musicians coming out of the cosseted world of jazz academia might feel the need to let their hair down...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Avenue
These recently discovered tapes are a rare treat. Professionally remastered, they yield nearly an hour of early Wes Montgomery, demo-taped...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2012
Dave Holland: Another Land
The guitar, bass and drums trio can sit anywhere on a broad stylistic spectrum in jazz, encompassing anything from the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2021
Bill Frisell: Orchestras
Bill Frisell has been conjuring an inspired solo soundscape for electric guitar for so long that the world has grown...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2024
Ray Charles: Live 1958-60
In June 1952, Atlantic Records purchased Charles’ recording contract for $2,500, but the Ertegun Brothers were later outbid by RCA-Victor...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
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
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