Scott Willcox Big Band: All Change!

Andy Gibson | Ben Hazelton | Bob McKay | Chris Biscoe | David Frankel | David Horden | Duncan Eagles | Gabriel Garrick | Gary Willcox | Georgia Mancio

Scott Willcox is a composer and arranger and this is the fourth release by his occasional big band, now effectively...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Begins

Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Billy Nichols | Brian Jackson | Burt Jones | Chariie Saunders | Chuck Rainey | Cornell Dupree | David Barnes | David Spinozza | Eddie Knowles

Even casual observers will not have failed to notice the considerable amount of GSH material now available on CD. Yet...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013

Christian McBride: The Q Sessions

Christian McBride | Eric Harland | Marcus Strickland | Mike Stern

Described as an EP (though it’s hardly shorter than some old-fashioned LPs), this set was originally set up as an...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022

Gil Scott-Heron & Amnesia Express: Legend In His Own Mind

Alonzo Bailey | Ed Brady | Gil Scott-Heron | Glenn ‘Astro’ Turner | Kenny Powell | Larry McDonald | Ron Holloway | Vernon James

Although his work in the 1970s cemented his place in the pantheon of modern black music, Gil Scott-Heron was still...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023

Mansur Scott: Harlem Quartet

The poised blues-rooted vocalist and percussionist, known as ‘the jazz mayor of Harlem’, is here with a quartet singing from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised…Plus

Bernard Purdie | Gil Scott-Heron | Hubert Laws | Ron Carter

If there is such a thing as ‘reissue fatigue’ then this music has never succumbed to it. Although made available...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2017

Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man: 50th Anniversary Edition

Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Brian Jackson | Burt Jones | Gil Scott-Heron | Hubert Laws | Johnny Pate | Ron Carter | string section

A landmark in jazz and in 1970s American black music more generally, Pieces Of A Man represented a quantum leap...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Christian Lillinger: Konus

Want to know what avant-jazz German drummer Lillinger got up to in lockdown? Then listen to this rather quirky one-man...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Herb Ellis: Softly But With That Feeling/Thank You Charlie Christian

Chuck Berghofer | Frank Strazzeri | Harry Babasi | Herb Ellis | Kenny Hume | Leroy Vinnegar | Ronnie Zito | Victor Feldman

Ellis, who died only two years ago, aged 88, is best remembered for his effective stint with the Oscar Peterson...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2012

Monocled Man: Southern Drawl

Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons

When trumpeter Rory Simmons isn't touring and recording with Jamie Cullum, he's directing a huge bundle of creative energy into...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014