Dizzy Gillespie/Hans Koller: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet & Hans Koller New Jazz Stars

Al Jones | Hans Koller | Jutta Hipp | Shorty Roeder | Karl Sanner | Lou Hackney | Albert Mangelsdorff | Bill Graham | Wade Legge | Dizzy Gillespie

Launching the NDR 60 Years Jazz archive project, this is the earliest surviving broadcast produced by the legendary Hans Gertberg,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013

Jonathan Moritz Trio: Secret Tempo

A free-ish jazz threesome led by a debuting NYC tenor/soprano saxophonist applying Webster and Webern among others to his loosely...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58

Gerry Mulligan | Harry 'sweets’ Edison | Stan Getz | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Louie Bellson | Ray Brown

Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013

Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: The Concert at The Pleyel, Paris 1958

Lil Greenwood | Jimmy Woode | Sam Woodyard | Harry Carney | Fats Ford | Clark Terry | Jimmy Hamilton | John Sanders | William ‘Cat’ Anderson | Jimmy Johnson

Although the liner notes do not say, the 1958 Pleyel concert took place on 20 November and was probably televised...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Satch Plays Fats

One of the classic Armstrong albums, and a pioneering example of overdubbing, with several unedited or alternate issued takes included...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Energy:

Luis Agudo | Björn ‘Binge’ Inge | Alvaro Is | Amedeo Nicoletti | Bosse Norlén

Advance spins of the forthcoming album by The Thing reveal that the Swedish power trio are actively incorporating a more...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013

Jimmy Forrest: Four Classic Albums

Three albums with rhythm, plus a big band set, this is a representative selection of the tenorist’s early 1960s work,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Kneebody: The Line

The Concord debut release for an uncategorisable cult, quirky rock-fuelled improv collective whose influences stretch from D’Angelo through to Bill...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Lyn Stanley: Lost in Romance

Why aren’t female MOR standard vocalists ever considered crooners? Well here’s one: a former US Ballroom dancing champ who can...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Norman Simmons/Richard Evans Trio/Richard’s Almanac:

Two 1950s piano trios paired together to make two LPs into a passable length CD, but maybe it’d have been...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013