Various Artists: Early Hot Jazz and Ragtime

Musical archaeologists will love this collection of piano rolls, phonograph cylinders, pioneer discs dating from the 1890s to the mid-1920s,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Miles Davis: Davis' Cup

Jimmy Cobb | Gil Coggins | Miles Davis | Bill Evans | Kenny Clarke | Paul Chambers | Oscar Pettiford | J J. Johnson | John Coltrane | Jackie McLean

I'm beginning to wonder if I ought to just file a template review of any release on AJC, into which...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2019

Wes Montgomery: Wes's Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance

Melvin Rhyne | David Young | Ron McClure | Carl Perkins | Wynton Kelly | Jack Coker | Eddie Higgins | Jimmy Cobb | Mingo Jones | Walter Perkins

Over the last few years Resonance has performed remarkable acts of musical archaeology, in particular researching and issuing material by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Mike LeDonne: Partners In Time

Christian McBride | Lewis Nash | Mike LeDonne

Despite having the least name recognition of this trio of performers, LeDonne is a veteran of the so-called modern mainstream,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019

Mario Pavone Dialect Trio: Philosophy

A gripping session that pits a tense angular approach against playful swing as veteran bassist Pavone leads a trio that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Sidney Bechet: Summertime

Compared to some of the Bechet selections reviewed here recently that focus on the maestro's Paris days, this is a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic: Vision For Two – 10 Years

A haunting recording on the whole, this simpatico duo – an accordionist and cellist – release a fifth album together...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Art Lande/Jan Garbarek: Red Lanta

Art Lande | Jan Garbarek

Greeted with faint praise in the Penguin Guide and Grove, and omitted completely in several other reference books, Lande is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019

Houston Person: I'm Just A Lucky So And So

Houston Person | Kenny Washington | Eddie Allen | Lafayette Harris | Matthew Parish | Rodney Jones

Person, arguably the last of the big-toned tenors and now aged 84, has always been his own man. Self-managed and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2019

Sarah Vaughan: Birdland: Live in New York

Rather like the Parker covered above, these airshots are quite a trial to listen to, especially when, by 1952, Vaughan...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019