Eldee Young/Red Holt: Just for Kicks/Look out!

Two men who became stars with Ramsey Lewis paired here in their independent 1961 solo ventures, of which Young’s is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Joey Calderazzo Trio: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jason Marsalis | Jasen Weaver | Oscar Rossignoli

Whither the piano trio? Possible paths forward for one of the most fundamental sound-making units in jazz have been much...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2020

Various Artists: Roll ’Em: 100 Rompin’ Boogie Woogie Classics

This collection skates across the genre briskly, but scores on the copious lesser-known names included, from Will Ezell and Raymond...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Niedersachsenhalle, Hannover

Joe Morello | Paul Desmond | Eugene Wright | Dave Brubeck

The Dave Brubeck Quartet was nothing if not hardworking. Here they are at the outset of a State Department tour...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013

Marcus Printup: Desire

Marcus Printup | Ben Williams | Riza Printup | EJ Strickland

Marcus Printup has been a stalwart of Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Orchestra since its inception. This is his third album...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013

Lenny White: Lenny White Live

Mark Ledford | Bernie Maupin | Lenny White | Donald Blackman | Victor Bailey | Foley | Patrice Rushen

This is something of a curiosity as it has lain in the vaults for 16 years. But age hasn’t withered...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2013

Stéphane Grappelli: Django

Grappelli’s well-known 1962 Barclay album, always worth hearing, but paired here with four other odds and ends of sessions from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

John Coltrane: The Pianists' Touch

Wynton Kelly | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Garrison | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones | Art Taylor

It’s a good month for studio-recorded Coltrane, the Phoenix album combining his Prestige outings Mating Call and The Cats, originally...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013

Han Bennink/Uri Caine: Sonic Boom

Uri Caine | Han Bennink

Right from the inception of the Instant Composers Pool in the late 1960s, Dutch improv offered a more playful and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013

Tito Puente: Pachanga Con Puente/Vaya Puente

Two live albums from the NY Riverside Plaza, showing Puente’s band could really play excellent big band jazz, along with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013