Bessie Smith: The Complete Columbia Recordings
The Empress of the Blues in all her decade-long majesty: her full Columbia output plus a series of interviews with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2013
Mezcla: Shoot the Moon
Former BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year David Bowden also plays bass on the limpidly beautiful, locally nostalgic folk-jazz...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020
Woody Shaw: Woody Shaw/Louis Hayes: The Tour Vol. 2
Junior Cook | Louis Hayes | Rene McLean | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw
Two events recorded five years apart by two entirely different line-ups. To set the record straight, the 1976-77 dates were...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018
Miles Davis: Live in Copenhagen 1964
Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Ron Carter | Tony Williams | Wayne Shorter
This concert comes three months after The Miles Davis Quintet in Tokyo from 14 July 1964 with Sam Rivers on...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ‘72
Charlie Haden | Keith Jarrett | Paul Motian
The three albums by this trio that date from 1967-71 and which were most recently reissued on Atlantic have a...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015
The New Woody Shaw Quintet: Vol. 1 At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall - Hamburg 1982
Mulgrew Miller | Stafford James | Steve Turre | Tony Reedus | Woody Shaw
Two events recorded five years apart by two entirely different line-ups. To set the record straight, the 1976-77 dates were...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018
Michael Brecker
Charlie Haden | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Kirkland | Michael Brecker | Pat Metheny
Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021
QOW Trio
Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan | Spike Wells
This post-bop, pre-lockdown recording is comforting and vivid, capturing three players in a resonant room loving their work. Combining three...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021
Jamison Ross: All For One
Barry Stephenson | Chris Pattishall | Cory Irvin | Jamison Ross | Rick Lollar
A winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2012 and mostly known as a drummer on albums such...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2018
Sons Of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile
Congo Natty | Eddie Hick | Joshua Idehen | Shabaka Hutchings | Theon Cross | Tom Skinner
An increasingly visible representative of British jazz for international audiences, Shabaka Hutchings has never been afraid to voice his opinion...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2018
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