Sonny Rollins Trio: Live In Europe 1959

Sonny Rollins | Kenny Clarke | Henry Grimes | Joe Harris | Pete LaRoca

Claiming to collect together in one place all the live recordings from Rollins' 1959 European visit, this catches him five...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016

Dinah Washington: The Swingin' Miss D

One of the must-have Washington collections, with a few extra tracks than the legitimate Verve reissue, this has her accompanied...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Phronesis: Walking Dark

Jasper Høiby | Anton Eger | Ivo Neame

How do you follow up a Jazz CD of the Year in both Jazzwise and Mojo? The answer is you...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Duke Ellington: The Treasury Shows Vol.15

Rex Stewart | Cat Anderson | Kay Davis | Harry Carney | Billy Strayhorn | Jimmy Hamilton | Junior Raglin | Juan Tizol | Fred Guy | Sonny Greer

The rate of discovery of ‘new’ Ellington has naturally slowed during recent years, but there's still much to be released...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2012

São Paulo Underground: Três Cabeças Loucuras

Richard Ribeiro | John Herndon | Mauricio Takara | Jason Adasiewicz | Guilherme Granado | Matthew Lux | Rob Mazurek | Kiko Dinucci

Chicagoan cornet player Rob Mazurek spent a number of years living in Brazil during the Noughties, and – though based...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Lloyd McNeil Quartet: Washington Suite

Eugene Rush | Robert Gravatt | Lloyd McNeil | Marshall Hawkins

Another handsomely packaged reissue from Universal Sound makes the point, that what passes for ‘spiritual’ or ‘deep jazz’ is not...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2012

Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Charlie Kohlhase | Jared Sims | Dave Ambrosio | Bill Carbone | Matt Steckler | Terry Goss

Dead Cat Bounce, led by New York-based composer and reedsman Matt Steckler, has a cheeky, massed horn approach similar to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Jimmy Giuffre Quartet: Live In 1960

Jim Hall | Jimmy Giuffre | Billy Osborne | Buell Neidlinger | Milford Middlebrooks

The partnership of Jimmy Giuffre and Jim Hall is one often overlooked, but from 1956 until 1960, together they recorded...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012

Miles Davis: Unissued At Birdland 1952-59

Miles Davis | Wynton Kelly | Jimmy Cobb | Paul Chambers | Connie Kay | Beryl Booker | Cannonball Adderley | Bobby Jaspar | John Coltrane | Don Elliott

Soon after Birdland opened its doors in December 1949, radio station WJZ began broadcasting nightly live and direct from the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012

Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Friendly Fire

Carl Allen | Eric Alexander | Mike Le Donne | Herring | John Webber

If you're into hard-swinging ‘live’ jazz performed by master musicians, rooted in the tradition but modern-minded, in front of an...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2012