Paul Bley: Four Classic Albums

This covers the first major steps of Bley's multi-faceted career and, despite deriving from four different labels, the sound is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Tony Coe: Zeitgeist

Alan Hacker | Chris Pyne | Mary Thomas | Francis Christou | Derek Watkins | Tony Coe | Norma Winstone | Bill Geldard | Paul Smythe | Martin Drover

Recorded in 1976, the year punk broke in a burst of pomposity-pricking primitivism, this Brit-jazz rarity had the nerve to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016

Elliot Galvin: Punch

Simon Roth | Tom McCredie | Elliot Galvin

On his self-assured second album Punch, the gifted young artist and pianist-composer Elliot Galvin fulfils the promise of his 2014...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Oscar Peterson: Complete Jerome Kern Songbook

Both the classic OP trios, with Ellis/Brown and Thigpen/Brown are featured here, with a compilation of two Verve/Norgran albums into...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Red Square: Rare & Lost 70s Recordings

Ian Staples | Jon Seagroatt | Roger Telford

Legend has it that, some time in the mid-1970s, a Red Square gig disrupted Cliff Richard in concert half a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016

Gary Burton: Something's Coming!/The Groovy Sound of Music/The Time Machine

Gary Burton

These Burton albums precede his artistically successful amalgam of jazz and rock he initially introduced on Duster in 1967. It...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016

Dada: Dada: Remastered Edition

Elkie Brooks | Pete Gage | Malcolm Capewell | Barry Duggan | Paul Korda | Jimmy Chambers | Ernie Luchlan | Don Shinn | Martin Harryman

Here's a curio that may stir memories, particularly for those of a generation who had an early rock crush on...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2016

The Boaters Project

This pre-millennium pop supergroup is a covers band headed by the ex-Jamiroquai keyboardist Simon Carter and the feisty ex-Shakatak vocalist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Philippe Côté: Lungta

Anh Phung | Taylor Donaldson | Mireille Boily | David Russell | Martin Auguste | Jeffrey Stonehouse | Pierre-Emmanuel Poizat | Jean-Sébastien Leblance | Aron Doyle | Mary Chalk

Jazzwise's many readers in Lhasa won't need me to tell them this, but Lungta, the title of Montreal-based composer-saxophonist Philippe...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

Oscar Pettiford: Six Classic Albums

Al Grey | Al Cohn | Joe Wilder | David Amram | Benny Golson | Max Roach | Julius Watkins | Jerome Richardson | Phil Urso | Osie Johnson

A rather forgotten figure these days, Pettiford was an important link from the innovations of Jimmie Blanton to Mingus and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2016