Runswick Hymas: Big Bands 1974-78
“Bands, those funny little plans that never work quite right,” sang Jonathan Donahue on Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs. That line...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2019
Gerry Mulligan: The Concert Jazz Band
A good decade and a half after the Swing Era went bust, 1960 hardly seemed an auspicious time in which...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2019
Webster Wraight Ensemble: No Lucky Days
A collaboration between an electronic dance producer/drummer Charles Webster and Matthew Herbert big band arranger Peter Wraight brings together a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014
Loose Tubes: Arriving
Here's the highly-anticipated third and final instalment in the ‘live’ trilogy of recordings from Loose Tubes' farewell residency at Ronnie...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015
Neil Ardley: A Symphony Of Amaranths
Sometimes a recording is special not for its content but for what it signifies. This welcome, long-awaited first CD release...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013
Fats Waller: All the Hits and More 1922-1943
If you’ve never had access to a collection of Fats Waller’s work, both as a solo pianist and as the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Eddie Condon/Bud Freeman: Complete Commodore & Decca Sessions
Commodore, the first US independent label to specialise in small-group jazz, started operations the night after Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Reuben Fowler: Between Shadows
The 23-year-old trumpeter Reuben Fowler’s debut album on the Edition label represents part of his prize for winning the Kenny...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra: Concerts in Miniature Volume 21-24
Few bands apart from Ellington have had such day by day, week by week documentation of their activities as Stan...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019
Steve Smith and Vital Information: The Complete Columbia Recordings
Smith could hardly have predicted the longevity of Vital Information when Columbia signed him as a solo artist after he’d...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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