Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Complete Concert at Club Saint-Germain

Art Blakey | Benny Golson | Bobby Timmons | Gana M'Bow | Jymie Merritt | Kenny Clarke | Lee Morgan

This session should be better known and, despite being recorded 60 years ago, I believe this is the first time...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2018

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality

Ben Boye | Ben LaMar Gay | Ben Lamar Gay | Hamid Drake | Jason Stein | Joshua Abrams | Lisa Alvarado | Mikel Avery | Nick Mazzarela

Natural Information Society's fifth album since forming in 2010 – and its second double-album, following 2015's equally expansive Magnetoception –...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019

Zoot Sims Quartet: Live In Louisville 1968

Jack Brengle | John Ray | Louis Knipp | Zoot Sims

When, in 1962, Zoot Sims became the first American musician to officially appear at Ronnie Scott's club it wasn't in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2012

Leon Thomas: Spirits Known And Unknown

Cecil McBee | James Spaulding | Little Rock | Lonnie Liston Smith | Ricahrd Landrum | Richard Davis | Roy Haynes | Thomas

If the recent compilation The Creator was a delicious appetiser then this is a peerless piece de résistance: one of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013

Cedar Walton: The Bouncer

Cedar Walton | David Williams | Ray Mantilla | Steve Turré | Vincent Herring | Willie Jones III

It’s good to report that Walton, at 77 years old a jazz veteran if ever there was one, has produced...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2011

Miki Yamanaka: Stairway to the Stars

Mark Turner | Miki Yamanaka | Orlando le Fleming | Orlando Le Fleming

Miki Yamanaka, the young Japanese pianist, organist and composer, moved to New York to study and play in 2012 and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2021

Miles Davis: Live In Paris

André ‘Déde’ Ceccarelli | Enrico Pieranunzi | Hein Van De Geyn | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Sonny Stitt | Stan Getz | Wynton Kelly

It's lately been open season on tapes from Miles' first European tours, featuring Coltrane and then Stitt. You'll recall The...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014

Samuel Eagles Quartet: Next Beginning

Eric Ford | Ferg Ireland | Ralph Wyld | Samuel Eagles

The ‘F-IRE presents’ series is a nice way of getting to know some of the emerging talents associated with the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady/Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Booker Ervin | Britt Woodman | Charles Mingus | Charlie Mariano | Dannie Richmond | Dick Hafer | Don Butterfield | Eddie Preston | Eric Dolphy | Jaki Byard

The Black Saint is widely acknowledged as a Mingus masterpiece, and nothing about this reissue changes that. The bargain of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012

Louis Armstrong: A Rare Batch of Satch

An odd choice to reissue, this, as it's a clone of a 1962 LP compilation of Louis' 1930s big band...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015