Eh Joe: Is Love the Word?
Joost Hendrickx | Mila Dores | Rus Pearson | Sam Watts
With her fluorescent blue wig, typewriter (on which she ‘solos’) and inspirations that include Samuel Beckett and Hindustani music, Portugueseborn...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012
Sonny Rollins: Our Man In Jazz
Billy Higgins | Bob Cranshaw | Don Cherry | Henry Grimes | Sonny Rollins
There is a very valid argument that says the Village Vanguard session with Elvin Jones and Wilbur Ware is one...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017
Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1
Chicagoan cornet player Mazurekadopts the dense collage style sosuccessfully sustained by MatanaRoberts during her acclaimed CoinCoin series, but on this...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2015
Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz
The reissue label (yet another entity legally domiciled in Andorra?) would have you believe that this music should be credited...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2021
Heroes Are Gang Leaders: LeAutoRoiOgraphy
Poet and jazz critic LeRoi Jones – later known as Amiri Baraka – was a pioneer of fusing poetry and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2022
Art Pepper: Gettin' Together!
1957's Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section – the rhythm section in question being Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2011
Pete Malinverni: An American in London
Dave Green | Pete Malinverni | Steve Brown
New York pianist Malinverni came over twice last year as MD/accompanist to singer Anaïs Reno for her successful Pizza Express...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2024
Curtis Stigers with the Danish Radio Big Band: One More for the Road
Curtis Stigers | Danish Radio Big Band
If there are some albums which outstay their welcome by shoehorning in a sub-par filler or two, equally there are...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017
Miles Davis Sextet: At Newport Rhode Island 1958
Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers
Blimey! How many times has this session come out in recent times? Up to now they've all been on various...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2016
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane: Bags & Trane
Coltrane | Connie Kay | Hank Jones | Milt Jackson | Paul Chambers
Although this was Coltrane's first appearance at Atlantic studios, it was not issued in the US until after his own...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2014
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