Ornette Coleman: To Whom Keeps A Record

Ed Blackwell | Don Cherry | Charlie Haden | Ornette Coleman

A classic case of record company reissue overlap leaves Ornettophiles with a dread dilemma. Grab the single CD, To Whom...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014

Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant

Albert Heath | Ray Bryant | Kermit Moore | Neal Boyar | Yusef Lateef | Eric Gale | Bob Cunningham | Jimmy Johnson | The Sweet Inspirations | Sam Jones

So voluminous is the late ‘universal music’ pioneer's discography that it's easy to overlook some of the less celebrated entries....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014

Bill Evans: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid has gradually created a worthwhile if inconsistent stable of public-domain reissues, but I feel the stable door should have...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2019

The New Mastersounds: Therapy

Leeds-based originally, this retro UKUS quartet crank up the funk in all its Hammond B3, N'Orleans, soul and disco-ised forms....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Payan

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach

Never, perhaps, has the case for improvisation as spontaneous composition been made as convincingly as by Germany's Alexander Von Schlippenbach,...

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

Peter Epstein: Polarities

Oregon-based before a relocation to New York, Epstein is a Greg Osby-ish saxophonist/composer that prefers ‘outside’ notions of tonality though...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band: Mother's Touch

Mark Allen | Anwar Marshall | Stacy Dillard | Stafford Hunter | Orrin Evans | Brent White | Doug Dehays | Luques Curtis | Andy Hunter | Duane Eubanks

The first Captain Black Big Band record, an exhilarating live recording, was one of this writer's favourite releases of 2011....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2014

Quincy Jones/Harry Arnold: Big Band = Jazz!

This US/Swedish band from 1958 is the high point of Quincy's work as a jazz bandleader and arranger and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Christof Lauer & NDR Bigband play Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur

Klaus Heidenreich | Thorsten Benkenstein | Thomas Gramatzki | Ingo Lahme | Don Gottshall | Ingolf Burkhardt | Fiete Fisch | Ingmar Heller | Peter Bolte | Sebastian Gille

This one does exactly what it says on the cover. Soprano and tenor-saxophonist Lauer, something of a virtuoso, solos on...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2014

World's Experience Orchestra: The Beginning Of A New Birth

Lola Roland | Martin Yasen | Sis. Vernell Jordan | Khalid Farug | Larry Roland | Imani Grant-Lawrence | Gloria Hutcherson | Robert Ruff | Lee Andrew Davison | Doug Morgan

There's obscure, and then there are records like this. Details are sketchy but it's reckoned that this session was recorded...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014