Matt Carter Octet: Read Between The Lines
Pianist Matt Carter comes bursting out from the Royal Academy with an impressive CV already to hand; it includes stints...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2023
Count Basie and his Orchestra: The Count Basie Collection 1937-39
For those who don't own the 1992 GRP box set documenting this era of Basie, or who may not have...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: June/2021
Owen Broder: Hodges Front and Center Vol. Two
Barry Stephenson III | Bryan Carter | Carmen Staaf | Owen Broder | Riley Mulherkar
We took note of Broder’s Volume 1 in Jazzwise 278 and liked it. As the blurb puts it, "the album...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024
Grant Green & Ike Quebec: Complete Instrumental Sessions
Originally introduced to Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff as a talent scout, assistant producer, studio manager and...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014
Harry Miller: Different Times, Different Places: Volume 2
This excellent second installment of Different Times, Different Places gives a further insight into the vast achievements of the late...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016
Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter
Seldom do recordings of previously unissued material from the past demand jazz history be re-written. Live in Europe 1969 Vol....
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013
Barnes/O’Higgins & The Sax Section: Oh Gee!
The onrush of Barnes on record continues, as does the flow of releases on his Woodville label. Having heard this...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2016
John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is
It only took a couple of bars of the opener, ‘You and the Night and the Music’ to conjure the...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2015
Billy Jenkins: Scratches of Spain
The Jenkins back catalogue keeps bubbling back into our souls, and in our dissonantly disjointed world how welcome yet testing...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017
Charles Mingus: Complete Live At The Bohemia 1955
Not often described as essential, this excellent two-hour-plus live session done for Mingus and Roach’s Debut label is doubtless overlooked...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2018
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