Charlie Parker: Bird of Paradise (Intégrale Vol. 4)

As for Django and Louis, this is Fremeaux's complete Parker – the 3CD set is from 1947 – mainly the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

George Shearing: The Complete Quintet Studio Sessions 1949-54

Armando Peraza | John Levy | Tjader | Teddi King | Dick Garcia | Ray Charles Singers | Joe Roland | Toots Thielemans | Denzil Best | Catalino Rolon

Fifteen years ago, someone asked me if Polygram (for whom I compiled a 16-track sampler of this period) was intending...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Bill Evans Trio: The Village Vanguard Sessions

Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott Lafaro | Scott LaFaro

This is getting confusing, especially for the poor customer. As far back as April this year (Jazzwise 163), the classic...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

6ix: Almost Even Further

A free improv sextet (co-led by pianist Jacques Demierre and saxophonist Urs Leimgruber) with a lively yet patient ebb and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio: Across The Imaginary Divide

Jason Marsalis | Marcus Roberts | Béla Fleck

Jazz fans no longer swap banjo jokes – “Banjo for sale: recently tuned” or “Q: What do you call a...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012

Enrico Rava: On The Dance Floor

Zeno de Rossi | Giovanni Guidi | Claudio Corvini | Mauro Ottolini | Daniele Tittarelli | Dario Deidda | Franz Bazzani | Andrea Andrea | Dan Kinzelman | Enrico Rava

In his time, Rava has celebrated the talents of Bix, Miles, Satchmo and Chet, and all credit to his magpie...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2012

New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

Jamie Saft | Larry Grenadier | Craig Santiago

Keyboardist Jamie Saft's closest associations have been with drummer Bobby Previte as a long-term sideman and John Zorn, a kinship...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Roland Kirk: We Free Kings/Triple Threat

Hank Jones | Charlie Persip | Wendell Marshall | Richard Wyands | Art Davis | Carl Pruitt | Roland Kirk | Jimmy Madison | Henry Duncan

Hard on the heels of the recent Rhino/Atlantic compilation (Jazzwise 166) comes this public-domain reissue of Kirk's famous first Mercury...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Barney Kessel: Three Classic Albums Plus

Barney's masterpieces, his two Poll Winners albums, counterbalanced by his treatment of music from Carmen and Some Like It Hot....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: XXI Century

Matt Brewer | Gary Galimidi | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Marcus Gilmore | Lionel Loueke | Pedrito Gonzales | Ignacio Berroa

Unlike Rubalcaba's first for his own label (the solo album Fé/Faith, reviewed in Jazzwise 155), this has a romping rhythm-section...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012