Sonny Rollins & Co: Complete 1962 Sessions

Jimmy Jones | Harry Saunders | Sonny Rollins | Jim Hall | Bob Cranshaw | Ben Riley

The November 1961-July 1962 partnership of Rollins with Jim Hall is celebrated with its complete recorded output, consisting of The...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

The Dave Liebman Trio: Lieb Plays the Beatles

Eric Ineke | Marius Beets | John Ruocco | Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman is one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. He is also one of jazz great clinicians, educators and inspirational figures....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Miles Davis Quintet: Amsterdam Concert

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

To get the easy bit out of the way first, Quintet & Sextet is a compilation of tracks recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Bill Evans Trio with Chuck Israels and Paul Motian: Complete Recordings

Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Stanley Turrentine | Paul Chambers | George Tucker | Art Taylor | Al Harewood | Tommy Flanagan

Historically, we’re meant to think this was a low spot for Evans, and certainly it was in his private life,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2018

Girls in Airports: Kaikoura

Copenhagen’s answer to Portico Quartet formed in 2009 and return for their third album working up a chilled Nordic ambience...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Tal Farlow: Three Classic Albums plus

A good cross section of Farlow’s mid-1950s guitar work with the likes of Gerry Wiggins and Eddie Costa, showing his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

A Columbia concept album from 1962, this saw McRae interpreting Broadway show songs with Buddy Bregman’s orchestra, augmented here by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Jon Davis Trio: Beauty and the Blues

An experienced veteran pianist performs with a legato modernism in trio with Ed Howard and Tim Horner on a set...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

The Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia

Adrian Fry | Ian Smith | Norman Emberson | Alyn Shipton | Matthias Seuffert | Martin Litton | Alan Barnes | Martin Wheatley | Menno Daams

The Buck Clayton Legacy Band came into being back in 2004 to serve the memory of the celebrated trumpeter, who...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2013

Terence Blanchard: Magnetic

The New Orleansian Blanchard has been one of the notable soundtrack composers of the last two decades as well as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017