Georgie Fame: Lost In A Lover's Dream

Mario Mavrin | Prmož Grašic | Georgia Fame

The last time I heard Georgie Fame's voice he was belting out Cole Porter at the 2010 London Jazz Festival,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Various Artists: Drink Up – Light Up

Cab Calloway | Sarah Vaughan | Dinah Washington | Wardell Gray | Hot Lips Page

This is a netherworld frequently visited by record companies in the last few years. I have to admit I’ve been...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Andy Hague: Cross My Palm

Mart Whitlam | Andy Hague | Will Harris | Brigitte Beraha | Jake McMurchie | Jim Blomfield | Ben Waghorn

This disc from Bristolian trumpeter Andy Hague's quintet is a great live calling card – a couple of the numbers...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Louis Armstrong: Complete Louis Armstrong: Vol. 9. 1938–41

The Decca sessions by Armstrong’s late–1930s big band and septet (including Sidney Bechet) are the core of this, plus some...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Joe Harriott Quintet: Movement/High Spirits

Coleridge Goode | Joe Harriott | Bobby Orr | Shake Keane | Pat Smythe

Hot on the heels of Proper's The Joe Harriott Story, comes this very welcome reissue and a first for both...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Hank Mobley: Workout + Hank Mobley Quartet

Grant Green | Doug Watkins | Wynton Kelly | Paul Chambers | Horace Silver | Hank Mobley | Philly Joe Jones | Art Blakey

It probably wasn't meant to be, but when, back in the day, Leonard Feather described Hank Mobley as “middleweight champion...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

The Golden Age of Steam: Welcome To Bat Country

James Widden | Alex Bonney | James Allsopp | Andrew Plummer | Ruth Goller | Alison Holford | Kit Downes | Tm Giles

I’m pretty sure James Allsopp would strenuously deny any conscious influence, but parts of this second album by his trio...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Hello Skinny

Byron Wallen | Tom Hertert | Trudie Dawn Smith | Nick Ramm | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Skinner

Although best known to the jazz community for drumming with Finn Peters, Mulatu Astatke and others, Tom Skinner's solo debut,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Lonnie Smith: Mama Wailer

Soul-meets-jazz fusion from organist Smith, with Grover Washington prominent among the soloists in a band powered along by Billy Cobham...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Ethel Ennis: Sings Lullabies For Losers/Change of Scenery/Have You Forgotten

Not the best known of 1950s singers, Ennis proves she was a fine ballad singer, especially with Hank Jones’ quartet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013