Mary Stallings: But Beautiful

The consummate, LA-based standards singer has experienced a late career resurgence and here her director, the pianist Eric Reed, keeps...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Dizzy Reece: The Complete Recordings 1954-62

Tubby Hayes | Dizzy Reece | Doug Watkins | Joe Temperley | Hank Jones | Donald Byrd | Wynton Kelly | Charlie Persip | Jimmy Deuchar | Victor Feldman

Musicians such as Joe Harriott, Harold McNair, Bogey Gaynair and, in this instance, Dizzy Reece injected the local scene with...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013

Lionel Hampton: Three Classic Albums Plus

Plenty of Hampton from the 1940s to the late-50s, with the classic Just Jazz ‘Stardust’ complete along with other tracks...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Various Artists: Masters of Boogie Woogie Piano

Lewis, Ammons, Johnson and Yancey in five-and-a-bit original LPs neatly corralled into this 2CD set, which is a good vade...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Ben Wolfe: From Here I See

Kenji Bunch | Wynton Marsalis | Orrin Evans | Ben Wolfe | Russell Malone | Greg Hesselink | Donald Edwards | JD Allen | Owen Dalby | Cyrus Beroukhim

Wolfe’s previous CD, recorded at Smalls, was very much a live date. Here, in Systems Two studio, everything is much...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013

Wayne Shorter: Beginnings

Jerry Weldon | Grant Stewart | Frank Basile | Clovis Nicolas | Pete Van Nostrand | Andy Farber | Bruce Harris | Michael Weiss | Dmitry Baevsky

Over the years, the Proper Box series has continued to impress, not least because they provide a valuable introduction to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017

Kenny Wheeler: Six for Six

Stan Sulzmann | John Taylor | Bobby Wellins | Martin France | Chris Laurence | Kenny Wheeler

There’s not much to add to what’s already been written about Kenny Wheeler, the Canadian-by-birth, British-by-adoption composer/band leader/trumpeter and flugelhornist,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2013

Alexey Kruglov/Alexey Lapin/Jaak Sooäär/Oleg Yudanov: Military Space

Jaak Sooäär | Alexey Lapin | Alexey Kruglov | Oleg Yudanov

Leo Records was founded at the end of the 1970s with a specific intent to disseminate Russian jazz. Over the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2013

Art Hodes: I Remember Bessie

Art Hodes

Of émigré White Russian extraction, Hodes immersed himself from an early age in Chicago’s African-American blues culture, emerging as both...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2013

Wadada Leo Smith: Occupy The World

John Lindberg | Verneri Pohjola | Wadada Leo Smith | Jari Honigsto

At face value this is orchestral jazz. But as Smith showed on 2012’s magnificent Ten Freedom Summers, his approach to...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2013