Ray Charles: The Complete ABC Recordings 1959-1961
Such was Ray Charles's profile when he left Atlantic that he immediately secured one of the most lucrative deals of...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012
Johnny Hartman: Four Classic Albums Plus
It is a mystery to me why Johnny Hartman is still revered by some fans of vocal jazz. These 4-LPs-...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022
Album Interview: Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons
A great contemporary bassist, McBride has also become an important educator and advocate for both the artform and African-American culture...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020
Ken Fowser: Standing Tall
First release as leader for the young tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser with an unpretentiously derivative New York-based quintet with compositions...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016
Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch
A pair of live dealings from two prodigious parameter-breakers captured at that perennial sanctuary of the awkward and abstruse, Cafe...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2016
Gwyneth Herbert: Letters I Haven&t Written
Corrie Dick | Gwyneth Herbert | Ned Cartwright | Rob Luft | Sam Burgess
This collection of self-penned songs from Gwyneth Herbert, album number seven following her brilliant 2013 release The Sea Cabinet, coincides...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018
Lokkhi Terra: Cubangla
London-based collective Lokkhi Terra have been blending sounds from around the globe since 2010. They describe their music as Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz,...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2020
Tom Scott: Tom Scott & The L.A. Express/Tom Cat/New York Connection
A three-CDs-for-one package that captures the heady time when rock, jazz and, lummee, commercial success briefly coalesced. The eponymous debut...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014
Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee
Drawing parallels between music and the environment in which it is made can sometimes be inappropriate. But ‘The Hill’ in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019
Eric Dolphy: Berlin Concerts
Benny Bailey | Buster Smith | Eric Dolphy | George Joyner | Pepsi Auer
Only issued for the first time in 1990, this is actually the earliest evidence of Dolphy’s brief 1961 visit to...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2018
Follow us
Jazzwise Full Club
- Latest print and digital issues
- Digital archive since 1997
- Download tracks from bonus compilation albums throughout the year
- Reviews Database access
From £9.08 / month
Subscribe
Jazzwise Digital Club
- Latest digital issues
- Digital archive since 1997
- Download tracks from bonus compilation albums during the year
- Reviews Database access