Glenn Miller: The Hits Collection 1935-44

Clyde Hurley | Bob Spangler | Larry Hall | Al Klink | Eddie Miller | Walter Barrow | Rollie Bundock | Zeke Zarchy | Allen Reuss | Jack Lathrop

There have been several attempts to issue collections of Glenn Miller’s work, including Columbia’s 2CD set The Essential Glenn Miller...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Makaya McCraven: Deciphering the Message

Jeff Parker | Joel Ross | Makaya McCraven | Marquis Hill | Junius Paul | De’Sean Jones | Greg Ward

Being signed to Blue Note has several advantages. There’s the kudos. The guarantee of quality. Then there’s the access to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Adam Bałdych Quintet with Paolo Fresu: Poetry

Michał Barański | Dawid Fortuna | Paolo Fresu | Adam Bałdych | Marek Konarski | Krzysztof Tys

With this album, Poland’s most striking violin player since Michal Urbaniak has arrived at the discovery many jazz virtuosi have...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Jü: III

Adam Meszaros | Bolins Boleso | Andras Halmos | Erno Hock | Dora Gyorfi

Well, the third album from a trio who play around with the mystic quality of the number three kind of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim: Harlem

Jamil Westergaard | Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim | Ed Epstein | Karsten Sorensen | Steve Berrios | Hasse Poulsen | Jacob Andersen | Christian Sievert | Hugo Rasmussen | Abdul Khaliq-Hassan

When he was known as Juan Amalbert and led the Latin Jazz quintet in the 1960s, Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim worked with...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Mark Lewandowski: Under One Sky

Addison Frei | Mark Lewandowski | Kush Abadey

Young British bassist/composer Mark Lewandowski made a striking album debut with Waller, in 2017 - dedicated to the 1930s piano...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Graham Collier: British Conversations

Georg Riedel | Bengt Hallberg | Lennart Åberg | Jan Allan | Harry Beckett | Ed Speight | Rune Gustafsson | Arne Domnérus | Graham Collier | Egil Johansen

Influential bandleader and educator Graham Collier’s British Conversations was a five-piece suite commissioned by Sveriges Radio. The theme takes its...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Nate Morgan: Retribution, Reparation

Danny Cortez | Joel Ector | Fritz Wise | Nate Morgan | Jesse Sharp

This 1982 LP from pianist Morgan – yet another alumnus from Horace Tapscott’s circle and member of the revolutionary Union...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 2

Randolph Colville | Dick Morrissey | Paul Budd | Mick Pyne | Craig Milverton | Andy Leggett | Roy Crimmins | Bobby Worth | Bruce Turner | Collin Bates

The first volume of Digby’s career retrospective was reviewed in Jazzwise 251 (May 2020); now comes Volume Two. Again it’s...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Pablo Held: Embracing You

Renowned Cologne-based pianist fuses eerie Messiaen-ish sonics and warmer contemporary Euro jazz while adding other keyboard curios to an elegant,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022