Gene Harris and the Three Sounds: …play Jazz on Broadway/Blue Genes

Two LPs on one CD and the first is making its debut in digital form, although it is occasionally a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Ben Webster/Groove Holmes/Les McCann: Groove

Webster might not be the first name you'd think of for a 1960s tenor-Hammond-piano summit, but he's brilliant at it,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

OPUS 5: Progression

Alex Sipiagin | Boris Koslov | David Kikoski | Donald Edwards | Seamus Blake

This is a regular gigging group of Mingus Big Band members. The deal came about when Blake called producer Gerry...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2014

Giuseppi Logan: More

Don Pullen | Eddie Gomez | Giuseppi Logan | Reggie Johnson | Milford Graves

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary edition of reeds player Giuseppi Logan's More album (not to be confused with the Pink...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2014

Jason Palmer: Places

Edward Perez | Mike Moreno | Jason Palmer | Kendrick Scott | Mark Turner | Godwin Louis

Danish label Steeplechase specialises in tightly arranged theme and variation mainstream releases that have something to say but rarely hit...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2014

Thelonious Monk: Three Classic Albums Plus

Monk is on superior form in each of these original albums, namely The Unique T.M. (with Pettiford and Blakey), the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2019

Anita O'Day: Five Classic Albums Plus

This adds three LPs to the Trav'lin' Light/Sad Young Men double CD previously reissued by Fresh Sound, making a splendid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Jimmy Rushing: Jazz Odyssey/…and the Smith Girls

This includes half the tracks on the recent Avid Four Classic Albums set, reviewed in 2012, but in cleaner sound...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook

A well presented version of one of the best of Ella's classic ‘songbook’ albums, plus 14 extra tracks from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio

Francisco Mela | Pablo Menares | Melissa Aldana

The tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana was the first South American (as well as the first female instrumentalist) to win the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014