Review of Matt Carter Octet: Read Between The Lines

Matt Carter Octet: Read Between The Lines

Gareth Lockrane | George Jefford | Harry Greene | Harry Maund | Joe Lee | Jonny Ford | Luke Tomlinson | Matt Carter | Tom Smith

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Count Basie and his Orchestra: The Count Basie Collection 1937-39

Count Basie and his Orchestra: The Count Basie Collection 1937-39

Count Basie

Editor's Choice

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★★

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

Review of Owen Broder: Hodges Front and Center Vol. Two

Owen Broder: Hodges Front and Center Vol. Two

Barry Stephenson III | Bryan Carter | Carmen Staaf | Owen Broder | Riley Mulherkar

Outside In Music

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Grant Green & Ike Quebec: Complete Instrumental Sessions

Grant Green & Ike Quebec: Complete Instrumental Sessions

Al Harewood | Billy Higgins | Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdez | Dodi Greene | Grant Green | Ike Quebec | Louis Hayes | Milt Hinton | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones

Editor's Choice

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Harry Miller: Different Times, Different Places: Volume 2

Harry Miller: Different Times, Different Places: Volume 2

Alan Tomlinson | Alan Wakeman | Bernie Holland | Dave Holdsworth | Harry Miller | Keith Tippett | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Trevor Watts

Ogun

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★★

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

Review of Barnes/O’Higgins & The Sax Section: Oh Gee!

Barnes/O’Higgins & The Sax Section: Oh Gee!

Adam King | Alan Barnes | Dave O’Higgins | Judith O’Higgins | Karen Sharp | Robin Aspland | Sam Mayne | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Woodville

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

Allen Farnham | Bobby Sanabria | Dave Ratacjzak | Dick Sarpola | John Fedchock | Keith O'Quinn 3 | Mark Vinci 5 | Tony Kadleck 4

Mama Records

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Billy Jenkins: Scratches of Spain

Billy Jenkins: Scratches of Spain

Ashley Slater | Billy Jenkins | Chris Batchelor | Dai Pritchard | Dave Cook | Dave Jago | Dawson | Django Bates | Iain Ballamy | Jimmy Haycraft

VOTP

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Charles Mingus: Complete Live At The Bohemia 1955

Charles Mingus: Complete Live At The Bohemia 1955

Bill Hardman | Calvin Newborn | Charles Mingus | Eddie Bert | George Barrow | J.R. Monterose | Jackie McLean | Jimmy Knepper | Mal Waldron | Max Roach

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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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