Hampton Hawes: For Real!
Frank Butler | Hampton Hawes | Harold Land | Scott LaFaro
Creating headlines like ‘Junkie Jazzman Pardoned by President’, Hampton Hawes’ career was never short of controversy. Indeed, the pianist’s hyper-candid...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2024
Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain
The fusion of poetry with jazz has been like a furtive undertow in the music's development. The idea appears and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017
Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016
Little needs to be said of percussionist Tony Oxley’s credentials as a figurehead of improvised music – either through his...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble: Signs of Life
Multi-instrumentalist and former teenage prodigy Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble had been around for several years before the leader landed a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020
Joe McPhee & John Snyder: To Be Continued
Massaging the connection that would yield such enchanted fruits on the wonderful Pieces Of Light the following year, comes this...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2015
Dizzy Gillespie/Hans Koller: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet & Hans Koller New Jazz Stars
Launching the NDR 60 Years Jazz archive project, this is the earliest surviving broadcast produced by the legendary Hans Gertberg,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013
Roland Kirk: We Free Kings/Triple Threat
Hard on the heels of the recent Rhino/Atlantic compilation (Jazzwise 166) comes this public-domain reissue of Kirk's famous first Mercury...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Various Artists: We Out Here
A timely overview of the part of the young London jazz scene grown through channels such as Tomorrow’s Warriors and...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2018
Lester Young: Complete Aladdin Recordings
This collection of 48 sides made with nine different groups for the small Aladdin company (plus one triosession with Nat...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018
Partikel: String Theory
London based trio, Partikel, have been playing together for over six years, including a running regular weekly jam session at...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015
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