Various Artists: We Like Ike: 100th Birthday Tribute To Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs
Here’s a 17-track mixed-bag tribute to mark the centenary of the influential jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs who was born in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2020
Dizzy Reece: The Complete Recordings 1954-62
Musicians such as Joe Harriott, Harold McNair, Bogey Gaynair and, in this instance, Dizzy Reece injected the local scene with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013
Various Artists: So Much, So Quickly: British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-62
Acrobat (with the aid of researcher-writer Simon Spillett) have done it again. Here's a 24-track compilation that just keeps giving....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018
Various Artists: BBC Jazz Club Rare Transcription Recordings 1959 Volume One
Vocalion have exhumed a series of BBC Jazz Club broadcasts and very welcome they are. Each programme combined a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015
Terry Pack's Trees: Into The Woods
Terry Pack’s prog apprenticeship with The Enid and session work with varios pop/rock figures from Steve Hackett to Sam Fox...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2020
Various Artists: Jazz on Film… Film Noir
You just have to look at the subtitle to know how this goes: criminals, murderers, bent cops, drugs and jazzers...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Various Artists: Amarcord Nino Rota
This landmark album was originally released in 1981 and recorded in tribute to the Italian film composer Nino Rota, focusing...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018
Jean-Pierre Sasson: Portrait of an Unsung Guitarist
Fresh Sound’s Jordi Pujol looks out for forgotten friends and he’s done it again. Jean-Pierre Sasson (1918-1999) may be a...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2025
Louis Jordan: The Fifties Collection 1951-1958
By 1951 some of Louis Jordan's songs were already well-known and he was internationally established as a major entertainer. So,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2021
Willie Smith: Alto Sax All-Time Great 1934-1956
It’s about time that altoist Willie Smith had another collection devoted to his work, following the Ocium Sound of Distinction...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2020
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