Reviews
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
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
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
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

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