GF Fitz-Gerald And Lol Coxhill: The Poppy Seed Affair
Where Coxhill’s credentials need little explication, a hero of free improvisation that he made (and makes) joyously accessible to the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011
Jutta Hipp: Lost Tapes/The German Recordings 1952-1955
Is this yet another take on the now hackneyed Svengali legend or just a B-movie scenario? On a visit to...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
The South Korean former pop singer and Berklee-graduated big-band composer Jihye Lee confirmed how eloquently she could balance fast-moving postbop...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey
Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
Kevin Hays/Lionel Loueke: Hope
It's been quite a year for brilliant yet ubiquitous Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke. He's popped up on albums with the...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2019
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 50th Anniversary Edition
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Their early 1970s recordings never repeated the shock of the new of the Crims’ Court of the… debut, despite Keith...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
Wynton Kelly plus Don Sleet: Four Classic Albums
Of the post-bop pianists born in the decade after Bud Powell (Kenny Drew, Barry Harris, Sonny Clark et al), Kelly...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2023
John Coltrane: The Pianists' Touch
It’s a good month for studio-recorded Coltrane, the Phoenix album combining his Prestige outings Mating Call and The Cats, originally...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013
Duke Ellington: Far East Suite
With Sony giving the RCA Victor catalogue the same treatment as the Columbia/Legacy series, there could hardly be a better...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus
These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2018
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