Bobby Hutcherson: Enjoy the View

Billy Hart | Joey DeFrancesco | Bobby Hutcherson | Joey Defrancesco | David Sanborn

It's only right that Hutcherson, who played such an important role in classic experimental albums of the 1960s with the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2014

Partisans: Swamp

Thad Kelly | Phil Robson | Gene Calderazzo | Julian Siegel

By treating us mean, those Partisans keep us keen: this is only their fifth album in 18 years and their...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2014

Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Finn Ziegler | Johnny Guarnieri | Oliver Jackson | George Duvivier | Buddy Tate | Vic Dickenson | Doc Cheatham | Tete Montoliu | Tate | Bo Stief

Both sessions date from a period when former Basie-ite Tate was often in Europe, playing clubs and festivals as a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2014

Zoot Sims: At Ronnie Scott's 1961

Jimmy Deuchar | Stan Tracey | Zoot Sims | Kenny Napper | Harold McNair | Ronnie Scott | Phil Seaman | Jackie Dougan | Terry Shannon

‘Lost’ parliamentary dossiers aside… some years ago, I attempted to not only licence the entire Tony Hall-produced Tempo catalogue, but...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014

Lena Bloch: Feathery

This Warne Marsh-influenced Brooklyn-based tenor saxophonist has a cool fire about her and favours intimate, linear phrases with a quartet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Joe Harriott Quintet: Southern Horizons/Free Form/Abstract

Phil Seamen | Coleridge Goode | Joe Harriott | Hank Shaw | Harry South | Bobby Orr | Shake Keane | Pat Smythe | Frank Holder

To a certain extent, this fine compilation has had its thunder stolen by Proper's excellent 2011 release, The Joe Harriott...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2014

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and George Lewis: Artificial Life 2007

Robert Henderson | Stu Brown | Maggie Nicols | Armin Sturm | Raymond MacDonald | Neil Davidson | Una MacGlone | George Lewis | Emma Roche | Liene Rozite

You may have missed the signs when entering the two cities but, musically at least, Glasgow is now twinned with...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: September/2014

Harold Land: Chroma (Burn)

Ndugu | Harold Land | Bobby Hutcherson | Bill Henderson | Woody Theus | Reggie Johnson

Perhaps best known for his 1960s work with Bobby Hutcherson, saxophonist Land renewed the partnership here on this hard and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2014

John Coltrane with Mal Waldron: The Dealers

Doug Watkins | Mal Waldron | Bill Hardman | Pepper Adams | Julian Euell | Cecil Payne | Idrees Sulieman | John Coltrane | Sahib Shihab | Art Taylor

Both of these releases would have to be called not only early, but minor, Coltrane. Acrobat, to be fair, describe...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Billy Eckstine: Four Classic Albums Plus

The best of ‘B’ from 1957-1961, of which the Basie and Quincy Jones collaborations are highlights, during what has to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019