Various Artists: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue
This wide-ranging curio goes back to the early days of microgroove, via a famous French label (though most of the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: All Can Work
Two Grammy-nominated releases – A Blessing in 2006 and Eternal Interlude in 2009 – is not bad going for a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra: The BBC Transcription Recordings Volume 2 & Volume 3
Volume One in this series of transcription discoveries was reviewed in our May 2015 issue. As before, these two further...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans
A fascinating project that exhumes previously unrecorded scores by Evans, for a top-ranking New York personnel. Five of them were...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Various: The Road To Jajouka
For centuries, a remote village in the southern Rif mountains of Morocco has been home to the ecstatic trance rituals...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Spontaneous Music Orchestra: Search & Reflect
As well as the various small improvisation group sessions that drummer John Stevens directed under his Spontaneous Music Ensemble moniker,...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: March/2017
Album Interview: Mike Gibbs with the NDR Big Band and Norma Winstone: Here's A Song For You
Here's A Song For You is a beautiful piece of work. It mixes standards like ‘Here Come De Honey Man’...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: February/2012
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
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