Miles Davis: Complete Blue Note 1952-54 Studio Sessions

Miles Davis | Jimmy Heath | Percy Heath | Tommy Potter | Billy Bauer | Gil Coggins | Sonny Rollins | Lee Konitz | Kenny Clarke | Connie Kay

A further instalment in EJC's backwardmoving series of Miles reissues (see Jazzwise 194 and 197), this overlaps with the 1951-1957...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Wolf & Clark: Expedition 2

Christian McBride | Hailey Niswanger | Michael Wolff | Wallace Roney | Mike Clark | Darryl Johns

The Wolf/Clark nexus is the heart of this album, as the splendidly energetic opening duet of ‘Clark Bar’ attests. ‘Gingerbread...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015

Babelfish: Chasing Rainbows

Barry Green | Brigitte Beraha | Chris Laurence | Paul Clarvis

According to the liner notes, this second release from the quartet named for the fictional translating animal in The Hitchhiker's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Paul Riley Quintet: Into View

Dave Hamblett | Matt Ridley | Mitch Jones | Paul Riley | Ant Law

Having graduated from Trinity College in 2007, the alto and soprano saxophonist/composer Paul Riley's debut features a quintet that he...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Don Ellis: How Time Passes/New Ideas/Jazz Jamboree '62

Charlie Persip | Don Ellis | Ron Carter | Jaki Byard

The same Don Ellis that made the jazz world sit-up in the mid-1960s and 1970s with a big band that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Lage Lund: Idlewild

This impressive Norwegian Brooklynbased guitarist has a soft-toned eloquence that has been compared to Jim Hall. Here he is in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Milford Graves and Bill Laswell: Space/Time – Redemption

Bill Laswell | Milford Graves

There's no doubting the eminence of these two musicians, presented here as a duo for the first time on record....

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015

Structure: Pop Music

J. Soulk | A. Bonavita | A. Wystraete | A. Bodenes | Anny | A. Ceccarelli | R. Stepzak | B. Wystraete

With the exception of Magma, how many French underground bands from the late 1960s can you think of who made...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2015

Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Miles Davis | Tony Williams | Jimmy Cobb | Herbie Hancock | Keith Jarrett | Bill Evans | Wayne Shorter | Paul Chambers | Cannonball Adderley | John Coltrane

Columbia/Legacy propose making this set available from Friday, 17 July 2015 – 60 years to the day of Davis' breakthrough...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band

Tony Allen | Sunday Owusu | Emmanuel Ofori | Ben Abarbanel-Wolff | Osei Tutu | Ralph Karikari | Pat Thomas

Lovers of African music will welcome the return of an icon. Active since the 1960s Ghanaian vocalist Thomas, whose past...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015