George Wallington: Four Classic Albums

Good to have these LPs from pianist Wallington's golden period in the mid-1950s reissued together, and apart from the slightly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Aretha Franklin: The Electrifying Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Before she signed to Atlantic Records in 1967, achieving huge commercial success and earning the honorific title ‘The Queen of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2017

Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones: Holy Science

Brandon Lopez | Matt Nelson | Max Jaffe | Amirtha Kidambi

How the various strands of 20th century jazz and popular music history may entwine in the 21st remains a mystery....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017

Alexander Stewart: I Thought About You

Andy Chapman | Rob Anstey | Rob Barron | Alexander Stewart | Tommy Emmerton

Released in 2011, Alexander Stewart's debut album All Or Nothing At All revealed a singer with omniverous taste. Stewart's wide-ranging...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2017

Thelonious Monk: Live In Paris

André ‘Déde’ Ceccarelli | Enrico Pieranunzi | Hein Van De Geyn

Unlike other volumes in this series deriving from Europe No.1 broadcasts, most of this has been around since the days...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

Jim Snidero: MD66

Andy Laverne | Alex Sipiagin | Jim Snidero | Ugonna Okegwo | Rudy Royston

The New York altoist's 20th release is as direct and muscular as ever, and with a fine, integrated and like-minded...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: February/2017

Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Conspiracy Nation

Dave Cross | Ed Wilcox | Leslie Q | Vinnie Paternostro | Tim Poland | Arthur Doyle

Best known for his 1977 LP Alabama Feeling, Doyle was the wild-man of second generation US free-jazz, with a raw,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2017

Sonny Rollins Trio: Complete 1957-62 Studio Recordings

Roy Hayens | Shelly Manne | Max Roach | Sonny Rollins | Candido Camero | Paul Chambers | Henry Grimes | Specs Wright | Bob Cranshaw | Oscar Pettiford

The premise behind this is that it would be instructive to compile a set of Rollins' studio trio performances into...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Lee Wiley: The Lee Wiley Collection 1931-57

Wonderful to have a really well-selected anthology of this great singer in settings from big bands to Eddie Condon's Chicagoans...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Simon Nabatov: Monk'n'More

The Monk part is the Russian virtuosic pianist's exhilarating solo session from 1994; the 'n’ More is an impressionistic and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017