Pee Wee Russell: Four Classic Albums Plus

Four LPs and an EP of the eccentric clarinettist make up this 2-CD set, showing Pee Wee at his idiosyncratic...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Jimmy Rushing: Four Classic Albums

Mr Five-by-Five was making some of his best discs from 1956-60 after his great days with Basie, and this collects...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Michael Garrick's Lyric Ensemble: Home Thoughts

Michael Garrick | Nette Robinson | Matt Ridley | Tony Woods | Chris Nickolls

The late Michael Garrick's love of poetry is well known and here he's set both his own verse and that...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: August/2012

Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!

Cecil Taylor

If the charge that Cecil Taylor sounds like an explosion in a piano factory is worth answering at all, then...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2012

Taeko Kunishima: Late Autumn

A London-based Shizuoka pianist with an original, oblique angle on acoustic contemporary jazz that combines an oriental flavour (features shakahachi...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Michael Garrick: Bovingdon Poppies

Michael Garrick | Eclectic Voices | Chiltern Chamber Choir | Stewart Fordyce | Dan Farrant | Steve Waterman | Harrison Sykes | Martin Hathaway | Chris Garrick | Chipperfield

In the 1960s, Michael Garrick was one of the first British musicians to combine jazz and choral music with his...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: August/2012

Gavin Barras Quintet: Day of Reckoning

Gavin Barras | Steve Plews | Dave Walsh | Corey Mwamba | Ed Jones

Cumbria-born double bassist Gavin Barras composed the material for this debut recording in the back of a car returning from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Ayako Shirasaki: Falling Leaves–Live in Hamburg

A Bud Powell-influenced mainstream Japanese pianist with classical leanings performs solo piano on mostly modern jazz classics....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis/Johnny Griffin Quintet: Tough Tenors Again ‘n’ Again

Jimmy Woode | Kenny Clarke | Francy Boland | Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis | Johnny Griffin

Among the last and best recordings by these born crowd-pleasers, this studio session was in fact taped some while after...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: August/2012

Kwartet: Seventh Daze

Milo Fell | Tony Woods | Patrick Bettison | Tim Whitehead

There's certainly no lack of invention in this little quartet – or, rather, Kwartet – and it's not just about...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2012