Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach: Empathy

Dave Liebman | Florian Van Volxem | Jack DeJohnette | Leo Hendrichs | Richie Beirach

This five CD box set comes with liner notes by Ashley Kahn (no less) and is in essence a celebration...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Singles Collection 1956-1962

Bill Smith | Bob Bates | Carmen McRae | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

1956? This compilation of singles released by the Dave Brubeck Quartet actually begins in 1951, with the quartet's second outing...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2020

Darius Jones Quartet: Le Bébé de Brigitte

The fi fth instalment in New York-based alto saxophonist/Matthew Shipp collaborator Darius Jones' Man'ish Boy series features French vocalist Emilie...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Lost Recordings – Live At The Kurhaus, 1967

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

At the end of 1967, the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet embarked on their final European tour – a lap of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2017

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Bossa Nova USA

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Between 1955, when he signed with Columbia, and 1966, a year before Dave Brubeck wound up his famous quartet, Brubeck...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Dave Douglas: Gifts

Dave Douglas | Ian Chang | James Brandon Lewis | Rafiq Bhatia

Despite run-outs with luminaries like Lage and Halvorson, Douglas isn’t best known for collaborating with guitarists, and certainly none has...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024

Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Challenger Deep

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tomas Challenger

As a fitting successor to their 2013 session Hullabaloo, Challenger Deep is a new creative stage for Riff Raff –...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2018

Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet: Cherokee/Legendary Studio Sessions

Al Lucas | Hank Jones | Milt Hinton | Osie Johnson | Paul Gonsalves | Roy Haynes | Shadow Wilson | Sonny Stitt | Tommy Potter | Wendell Marshall

In a parallel universe, if Usain Bolt had been cast as a saxophonist, he would have surely been Sonny Stitt...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2018

Dave Holland's Prism: Prism

Craig Taborn | Dave Holland | Eric Harland | Kevin Eubanks

This is a startling deviation from the finely tuned precision of Holland’s ensembles, previously represented on the ECM label, Universal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2013

Dave Glasser: Hypocrisy Democracy

Andy Milne | Ben Allison | Dave Glasser | Matt Wilson

This Lee Konitz-influenced saxophonist is a long-time Basie orchestra member, but his remit is wide, covering free-bop, blues-groove and cool...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020