Reviews
Emily Remler: Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
Carson Smith | Tom Montgomery | Emily Remler | Cocho Arbe | Tom Pisci
Here’s a handsome package honouring Remler in her prime. Just two or so years after her stunning debut Firefly, which...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Sun Ra: Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank
Confusingly, Resonance Records have decided to give their latest collection of Sun Ra recordings virtually the same title as the...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)
Kenny Clarke | Sonny Rollins | Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Pete LaRoca
In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...
Reviewed in issue September/2024
Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
Slam Stewart | Everett Barksdale | Art Tatum
According to his biographer James Lester, it was around the time of this recording that Tatum heard from his doctor...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings
Prior to the release of this remarkable discovery of 17 unissued 1965 Half Note recordings by Wes Montgomery and the...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024
Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony
Though the selling point is perhaps that both Hargrove and Miller departed well before their time (Roy in 2018 aged...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette's six-month tenure as a member of the Bill Evans Trio – he left to heed the call of...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Sonny Rollins: Rollins In Holland
Sonny Rollins | Han Bennink | Ruud Jacobs
The colossus has been forced to hang up his horn, but there could be not better way to celebrate his...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Bob James: Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions
This reviewer has been fairly well insulated from Bob James, apart from the inevitable ‘Angela/Theme From Taxi’ and his very...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
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