Booker Ervin: The Book Cooks

The Verse label continues its systematic reissue of the Bethlehem catalogue with this stellar sextet featuring Zoot Sims and Tommy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy Masters

Al Haig | Al Hall | Argonne Thornton | Bam Brown | Bud Powell | Charlie Parker | Clyde Bernhardt | Clyde Hart | Cozy Cole | Curly Russell

A fitting companion to the Dials reviewed above, this Savoy set has marginally fewer tracks done under the leadership of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2015

Dexter Gordon: Blows Hot and Cool

The two sessions Dex made in 1955 fill the narcotic-fuelled gap between his 1940s productivity and his return in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2011

Tubby Hayes: Tubby The Tenor/Tubby's Back In Town/Boston ‘64

Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Eddie Costa | George Duvivier | Horace Parlan | James Moody | Joe Cocuzzo | John Neves | Louis Hayes | Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Tubby Hayes continues to impress today in much the same way he did way back when these remarkable recordings were...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Dave Liebman/Adam Rudolph/Hamid Drake: Chi

Adam Rudolph | Dave Liebman | Hamid Drake

Could it be that Dave Liebman has finally found a record label he can call home? Certainly the creative freedom...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Imperial Triumphant: Vile Luxury

Andromeda Anarchia | Kenny Grohowski | Sarai Chrzanowski | Steve Blanco | Will Smith | Yoshiko Oharaz | Zachary Ilya Ezrin

Does black metal have a place in the progression of jazz music? In the case of New York experimental metal...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Sultan Stevenson: Faithful One

Denys Baptiste | Jacob Gryn | Joel Waters | Josh Short | Sultan Stevenson

Young Sultan Stevenson, the latest Tomorrow's Warriors alumnus to emerge blinking into the daylight, wants us to listen to his...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2023

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: In The Spirit of the Duke

Alyn Cosker | Bill Fleming | Brian Kellock | Calum Gourlay | Cameron Jay | Chris Greive | James Marr | Konrad Wiszniewski | Martin Kershaw | Michael Owers

Smith's SNJO has become one of the great adornments of our British jazz scene, the personnel invariably of the highest...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2013

Dexter Gordon: The Complete Columbia Albums

Curtis Fuller | David Eubanks | Eddie Gladden | Eddie Jefferson | George Cables | Gordon | Johnny Griffin | Kirk Lightsey | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Mathews

This seven-CD set has to be top value for Dexter Gordon fans, especially those who particularly value the mellow autumn...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud

Barney Wilen | Kenny Clarke | Miles Davis | Pierre Michelot | René Urteger

At the conclusion of the Jazz for Moderns tour in 1957 on 23 November 1957, Miles Davis travelled alone to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2018