Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Booker Ervin | Bud Powell | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Doug Watkins | Ed Shaughnessy | Eric Dolphy | Hall Overton | Horace Parlan | J.R. Monterose

Like the Coltrane box reviewed this month, this comprehensive reissue from the mid-1990s is a classic of jazz history, now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins Quintet With Horace Silver/Complete Birdland Broadcasts

Art Blakey | Coleman Hawkins | Connie Kay | Curly Russell | Horace Silver | Howard McGhee | Roy Eldridge

The Hawk and Little Jazz worked together so often that you could be excused for believing that they were joined...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2013

Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Dave Whitford | Frank Basile | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Ry Cooder: Soundtracks

Amy Madigan | Benmont Tench | Cesar Rosas | David Hidalgo | David Lindley | Jim Dickinson | Jim Keltner | John Hiatt | Jorge Calderon | Miguel Cruz

Here's a treat for blues ‘n’ movie freaks, and jazzers who want to know better. No less than seven Cooder...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesca Quartet: Phoenix

The Slovenian saxophonist Vasko Atanasovski leads a quartet that includes the inimitable tubist Michel Godard, and delivers an intoxicating old-world...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Maciej Obara Quartet: Unloved

Dominik Wania | Gard Nilssen | Maciej Obara | Ole Morten Vågan

This is Polish saxophonist and composer Maciej Obara’s ECM debut – though his ninth album as leader in total –...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2018

Various Artists: Jazz – 10 Classic Albums

Billie Holiday | Charlie Mingus | Chet Baker | Count Basie | Dave Brubeck | Duke Ellington | Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Stan Getz | Thelonious Monk

Long long ago Tony Blackburn proudly revealed that he didn’t like jazz before adding that he was a huge fan...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Omar Sosa Quarteto Afro Cubano: Ilé

Carlos ‘El Vikingo’ Ronda | Childo Thomas | Eladio ‘Don Pancho’ Terry | Ernesto Simpson | Jose ‘El Salao’ Martin | Kokayi | Lazaro Ross | Leandro Saint-Hill | Marvin Sewell | Omar Sosa

As inventive as he is prolific, Sosa continues to probe the outer reaches of Afro-Cuban traditions and belief systems all...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Live At The Village Vanguard

Anthony Tidd | Jonathan Finlayson | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman | Steve Coleman

It's just over two decades since Coleman's Hot Brass sessions in Paris, a set of three live albums that established...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018

Three Fall: Realise!

Lutz Streun | Sebastian Winne | Til Schneider

Three Fall, formed in 2008, release their second CD on ACT’s Young German Jazz series that was started by the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013