Bill Perkins: Four Classic Albums

The ex-Kenton tenorist in the mid-1950s as a Los Angeles session player was on a creative roll, and these four...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Freddie Hubbard: Keep Your Soul Together/Polar AC/Skagly

Philip Ranelin | Freddie Hubbard | Hubert Laws | Juno Lewis | Junior Cook | Lenny White | George Duke | Hadley Caliman | Airto | Billy Cobham

Hard jazzers may poo poo Hubbard's CTI years, but there remains some lustrous music from that era. Keep Your Soul...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Frank Wess: Four Classic Albums

Frank's conventional swing setting in After Hours and Southern Comfort is balanced by the flute quintet Opus in Swing and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Art Farmer: Interaction

Steve Kuhn | Art Farmer | Walter Perkins | Steve Swallow

Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Desmond, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Michel Petrucciani and Wayne Shorter were just a few of many A-listers...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014

Black Top: # One

Steve Williamson | Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas

By contemporary CD standards this is relatively brief at just over 42 minutes, but packs the kind of punch that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014

Shirley Scott: Superstition

Ramon Morris | Jimmy Owens | Shirley Scott | Richard Evans | Grady Tate | Clifford Davis | Ron Carter

Released on CD for the first time, Superstition was the last of the three albums that ‘Queen Of The Organ’...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014

John Escreet: Sound, Space and Structures

Tyshawn Sorey | John Hébert | John Escreet | Evan Parker

The young New York-based expat pianist-composer John Escreet and pioneering saxophonist Evan Parker might seem strange bedfellows at first. But...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Benny Goodman: Sextet Live at Basin Street East

A complete live concert by the same small group as on the Hi Fi album above, it's equally rewarding, though...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Various Artists: Jazz & The Philharmonic

Elizabeth Joy Roe | Eric Owens | Bobby McFerrin | Shelly Berg | Mark O'Connor | Desmond Richardson | Chick Corea | Dave Grusin | Terence Blanchard

Not to be confused, of course, with Jazz At The Philharmonic, this altogether different beast can't be knocked in terms...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Betty Blake: Sings in a Tender Mood: Complete Recordings 1957-61

A little known Cincinnati singer, whose 1961 bebop sessions featuring Marcus Belgrave are exceptional, though her ballads with Teddy Charles'...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014