Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane

Billy Hart | Ron McClure | Phil Markowitz | Joe Lovano | Dave Liebman

Originally recorded in June 2007 for Jazz on 3 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Coltrane's death on 17 July...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2017

Hank De Mano: Quartet in Concert

A Los Angeles-based flugelhorn player this issue collates two LPs of De Mano's elegant but unexceptional quartet (with piano, bass...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Bill Evans Trio: Portrait In Jazz

Jimmy Cobb | Miles Davis | Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane | Scott LaFaro

Recorded three days before the end of 1959, and usually omitted from the seminal albums of that year, Portrait In...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017

John Coltrane: Trane: The Atlantic Collection

Nine musically impeccable tracks by JC on Atlantic, but given that the vinyl price (at just over £20) is almost...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

The Lev Gorshin Amalgamation: Klezmernova – Klezmer Meets Bossa Nova… Meets Jazz!!!

Hyman ‘Hammy’ Schmibble | Danny Markovitz | Shem Orsky | Lev Gorshin | Egmondo Barbosa | Murray Goldbluth

As hybrids go this is right up there. When the Getz/bossa craze hit the stratosphere in the mid-1960s a lot...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: September/2017

Peter Bernstein: Signs Live!

Christian McBride | Peter Bernstein | Gregory Hutchinson | Brad Mehldau

The guitarist Peter Bernstein jokes in the sleeve notes that the new album Signs Live! was a late album launch...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

JD Allen: Radio Flyer

Liberty Ellman | Rudy Royston | JD Allen | Gregg Austin

JD takes another big step in his search for complete freedom. This time he arrived at the studio with seven...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2017

Lou Donaldson: Four Classic Albums

The logical bridge between Bird and Cannonball, Lou Donaldson proved just as enticing to a large appreciative audience. In fact,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2020

Tommy Ladnier: The Tommy Ladnier Collection 1923-39

A representative cross section of the globetrotting trumpeter's work during his short life from his early days to the revival...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Federico Bonifazi: E. 74 St.

An Italian pianist working in both trio and quartet formats doffs his proverbial cap to New York and his absorption...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017