Review of Outside Line: Introducing Outside Line

Outside Line: Introducing Outside Line

Dave Walsh | Garry Jackson | Jamie Taylor | Matt Anderson

GLP Records

Rating: ★★★

Highly praised for his contributions as guitarist with the Jamil Sheriff Big Band, Jamie Taylor also happens to lecture at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2014

Review of Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones

Ace Records

Rating: ★★★★

As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Review of Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Dave Bedford | Lol Coxhill

Esoteric Recordings

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Ben Webster | Budd Johnson | Coleman Hawkins | Jimmy Jones | Jo Jones | Les Spann | Ray Brown | Roy Eldridge

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★★

With hindsight, not all of Leonard Feather's pronouncements have stood the test of time. However, when he wrote on the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Review of Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans: Legendary Quartet/Quintet Sessions

Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans: Legendary Quartet/Quintet Sessions

Barry Galbraith | Bill Evans | Bill Russo | Blue Mitchell | Cannonbal Adderley | Connie Kay | Emmett Berry | Jimmy Cobb | Milt Hinton | Percy Heath

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

There can never be enough Adderley and, if this isn't his best, it's still most welcome. The three albums here...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014

Review of James Brandon Lewis: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live

James Brandon Lewis: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis | Kirk Knuffke

Editor's Choice

ANTI-Records

Rating: ★★★★

For the past decade American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has been gathering an impressive head of creative steam through his...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023

Review of Claire Martin/Ray Gelato: We’ve Got A World That Swings

Claire Martin/Ray Gelato: We’ve Got A World That Swings

Claire Martin | Dave Newton | Dave Whitford | Ray Gelato | Sebastian De Krom | Sebastian de Krom

Linn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Dedicated to the memory of Mark Murphy, this 13-track collection of swing, R&B and jazz standards from Martin and Gelato...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2016

Review of Andrew Woolf: Song Unsung

Andrew Woolf: Song Unsung

Andrew Woolf | Dave Manington | Joe Auckland | Rob Updegraff | Simon Roth

Oti-O Records

Rating: ★★★

As a member of Alvorada, Andrew Woolf is a leading light in the UK choro scene, choro being a style...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2021

Review of Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3

Alan Downey | Bob Sydor | Brian Smith | Bud Parks | Danny Moss | Dave Lynane | John Donnelly | Martin Drover | Maynard Ferguson | Mike Bailey

BGO Records

Rating: ★★★★

The letters MF were of course Maynard Ferguson’s initials, but their secondary adjectival meaning also fitted the extrovert Canadian’s prowess...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2013

Review of Big Screen: Take One

Big Screen: Take One

Dave Newton | Matt Skelton | Tom Farmer

Linn

Rating: ★★★

It's funny how an unapologetically glossy traditional piano trio take on popular TV and film themes can start to sound...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

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