Dal Sasso/Belmondo Big Band: John Coltrane A Love Supreme

Laurent Agnès | Erick Poirier | Sophie Alour | Stéphane Belmondo | François Christin | Laurent Fickelson | Lionel Belmondo | Clovis Nicolas | Guillaume Naturel | Bastien Stil

Recorded in 2002, the piece opens with a recitation of ‘A Love Supreme’ poem, written by Coltrane in December 1964,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Chick Corea: Solo Piano: Portraits

Chick Corea

“Piano solo is not something I do very often, I enjoy it, it gives me a chance to do whatever...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Quincy Jones: Live In Paris 5-7-9 Mars/19 Avril 1960

Hard on the heels of the Scandinavian Harry Arnold collaboration reviewed last month comes this dazzling Paris set by Q's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Pulcinella: Bestiole

Ferdinand Doumerc | Daniel Casimir | Frédéric Cavallin | Florian Demonsant | Patrick Vaillant | Jean-Marc Serpin

Even now in the 21st century, it's hard to imagine a musical instrument more instantly and overwhelmingly evocative of France...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

The Loire Allstars

Oli Hayhurst | Tristan Mailliot | Anita Wardell | Dave O'Higgins | Mike Gorman

From the very opening upbeat to Alan Brandt and Bob Haymes's terrific ‘That's All’, recorded by Nat King Cole, Frank...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2014

Anita O'Day: Four Classic Albums Plus (Second Set)

Together with Avid's first O'Day album, this covers her best mid-period work, with four LPs well transferred, plus her screen...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Wali And The Afro Caravan: Home Lost And Found (The Natural Sound)

Wali King | J. Murray | Robert Moore | Ronald Nance | Ray Lewis

When 22-year old percussionist Wali King formed his ethnic jazz troupe, the Afro Caravan, in Austin, Texas in the mid-1960s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Mark Nightingale/Alistair White: The Sound of Jay & Kai

Alec Dankworth | Mark Nightingale | Alistair White | Graham Harvey | Clark Tracey

Two of our best contemporary trombone men in, inevitably, a tribute to the long-gone duo of JJ Johnson and Kai...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2014

Henry Grimes/Marc Ribot/Chad Taylor: Live At The Village Vanguard

Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Anthony Tidd | Miles Okazaki | Steve Coleman

It's been nine years since Spiritual Unity, the debut recording of this band as a quartet, and sadly its original...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018

Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows

Rex Stewart | Jimmy Woode | Chuck Connors | Shelton Hemphill | Billy Taylor | Joe ‘Tricky Sam’ Nanton | Sam Woodyard | Al Killian | Harry Carney | John Lamb

Unlike the excellent George Lewis and Louis Armstrong boxes from Storyville, which I have reviewed here in the past year,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014