John Dankworth: What the Dickens!/Off Duty

Tubby Hayes | John Dankworth | Spike Heatley | Art Ellefson | Dick Morrissey | Ken Napper | Ed Harvey | Leon Calvert | Johnny Butts | Dick Hawdon

Here's a game of two halves if ever there was one. What the Dickens! is a themed, programmatic suite in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2013

Quincy Jones: This is How I Feel About Jazz/Great Wide World Of…

A slightly different pairing from other recent issues – Lonehill put live and studio Great Wide sessions together – this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Paul Edis Sextet: There Will Be Time

An enjoyable debut CD by a pianist who has some compositional flair and a tidy north east of England-based band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt: Boss Tenors/Dig Him

Two 1961 Verve LPs reissued back-to-back on this single CD represent the high-water mark of the collaboration between these two...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Jackie Ryan: Listen Here

This mainstream jazz vocalist has the Claytons, bassist John and pianist Gerald, on a range of standards that includes Abbey...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Dave Douglas: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Andrew Hill | Rufus Reid | Alan Silva | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Ben Riley

A wiser man than I on the Jazzwise crew has already named this as one of his top archive releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016

Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge/Boston Blow Up

Two classic Capitol albums by the ex-Herman baritone star are put together here and make a better-value package than the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Old Time Musketry: Different Times

Reedsman Adam Schneit leads a Brooklyn-based quartet crossing over the traditions of second line and more advanced modernisms with folkier...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Josephine Premice: Sings Calypso/Caribe

An actress from Brooklyn who grew up in Haiti, Premice was a calypso sensation in the 1950s, notably in Caribe,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Daniel Humair: Sweet & Sour

A restlessly engaging quartet led by the brilliant French drum luminary Daniel Humair featuring saxophonist Émile Parisien and accordionist Vincent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013