The Miles Davis Quintet Featuring John Coltrane: All of You: The Last Tour 1960

Miles Davis | Wynton Kelly | Jimmy Cobb | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane

Davis' first European tour with his own band in March/April 1960 was put in jeopardy by Coltrane wanting out, only...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

King Fleming: The King Fleming Trio

Relatively unknown outside Chicago, until his death at 91 earlier this year, Fleming is revealed on these sides as a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Art Farmer: Listen to Art Farmer/Brass Shout

Irritatingly, you get Brass Shout as a bonus on Blue Note's official reissue of Farmer's Aztec Suite, so adding it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Brew Moore: Svinget ‘14: Brew Moore in Europe

Thirteen tracks from the great tenorist's stay in Denmark in 1962 are an appealing collection, especially with some jousting from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Don Randi: Feelin' Like Blues/Where do we go from Here?

A fine but somewhat superficial jazz pianist before he vanished into Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Randi flexes his keyboard...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Roy Haynes: Hip Ensemble

Terud Nakamura | Elwood Johnson | Marvin Peterson | George Adams | Roy Haynes | Mervin Bronson | Lawrence Killian | Carl Schroeder

Roy Haynes has always been at the forefront of dramatic changes in jazz. In an expansive career that has seen...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Olivia Trummer: Fly Now

Olivia Trummer | Matt Penman | Obed Calvaire | Kurt Rosenwinkel

Combining a beautifully fluid rhythmic conception, a varicoloured harmonic palette and a knack for penning instantly memorable melodies, the German-born...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

John Coltrane and Friends: Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions

Donald Byrd | Wynton Kelly | Curtis Fuller | Pepper Adams | Paul Chambers | Kenny Drew | Sonny Clark | Lee Morgan | Kenny Burrell | John Coltrane

Representing a sensible way of mining the archive and sticking to tried and tested names this compilation contains every note...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Lumen Drones

Nils Økland | Per Steinar Lie | Ørjan Haaland

Expect no twists on the US jazz tradition, or safe or even avant-garde takes on tunes from the Great American...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Paul Edis: Mr Hipster

Mr Hipster is the follow up to the young Northern pianist-composer Paul Edis sextet's debut There Will Be Time and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015