Review of Joey Alexander	: Origin

Joey Alexander : Origin

Chris Potter | Gilad Hekselman | Joey Alexander | Kendrick Scott | Larry Grenadier

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Even when he was still in his early teens, Joey Alexander’s touch was delicate and mature, and he played with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022

Review of Cannonball Adderley Sextet: Complete Live In Tokyo 1963

Cannonball Adderley Sextet: Complete Live In Tokyo 1963

Cannonball Adderley | Joe Zawinul | Louis Hayes | Nat Adderley | Sam Jones | Yusef Lateef

Solar

Rating: ★★★★

Though his original two horns/three rhythm set-up served him well, Cannonball learned from his tour of duty with Miles that...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2015

Review of Allan Holdsworth: Frankfurt '86

Allan Holdsworth: Frankfurt '86

Allan Holdsworth | Bryan Spring | Gary Husband | Jimmy Johnson | Kei Akagi | Ray Warleigh | Ron Mathewson

Manifesto

Rating: ★★★

The candour is refreshing, as you'd expect from a Yorkshireman: “…this was the total anthesis of a great gig. Just...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021

Review of John Coltrane and Friends: Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions

John Coltrane and Friends: Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions

Art Blakey | Art Taylor | Curtis Fuller | Donald Byrd | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | John Coltrane | Johnny Griffin | Kenny Burrell | Kenny Drew

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

Representing a sensible way of mining the archive and sticking to tried and tested names this compilation contains every note...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Review of Madwort's Menagerie

Madwort's Menagerie

Adam Spiers | Alex Bonney | Cath Roberts | Julie Kjær | Tim Fairhall | Tom Ward

Madwort

Rating: ★★★

Overhearing a big band's odd fragmentation in rehearsal suggested the potential of an unconventional ensemble to Tom Ward. Splicing elements...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2019

Review of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session

Booty Wood | Cat Anderson | Cootie Williams | Duke Ellington | Fred Stone | Harold Ashby | Harry Carney | Joe Benjamin | Lena Junoff | Malcolm Taylor

Grönland

Rating: ★★★

The billing sounds highly significant, but the circumstances are more mundane. Plank, subsequently an influential producer through the likes of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2015

Review of QOW Trio

QOW Trio

Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan | Spike Wells

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

This post-bop, pre-lockdown recording is comforting and vivid, capturing three players in a resonant room loving their work. Combining three...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021

Review of Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's

Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's

Barney Kessel | Billy Wilson | Clarence Palmer | Claude Bartee | Don Lamond | Emmanuel Riggins | Gerald Izzard | Grant Green | Greg ‘Vibrations’ Williams | Larry Ridley

Resonance

Rating: ★★★

Once again, hats off to Resonance for their diligent archival research that reaches into places other album researchers fail to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Review of Satori: In the Corners of Clouds

Satori: In the Corners of Clouds

Dave Whitford | James Maddren | Josephine Davies

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Since winning the Perrier Young Jazz Award and graduating from NYJO, Josephine Davies has developed her musicianship playing with bands...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Buddy Rich: Three Classic Albums Plus The Wailing Buddy Rich/The Swinging Buddy Rich/This One's For Basie/Buddy & Sweets

Buddy Rich: Three Classic Albums Plus The Wailing Buddy Rich/The Swinging Buddy Rich/This One's For Basie/Buddy & Sweets

Barney Kessel | Ben Webster | Benny Carter | Bill Pittman | Bob Cooper | Bob Enevoldsen | Bob Poland | Buddy Collette | Buddy Rich | Conrad Gozzo

Avid AMSC

Rating: ★★★

If America's greatest World War II combat General, George S. Patton had played drums, he would have been Buddy Rich!...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2012

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