Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021

Colosseum: Transmissions: Live at the BBC

Barbara Thompson | Chris Farlowe | Dave ‘Clem’ Clempson | Dave Greenslade | Dick Heckstall-Smith | James Litherland | Jon Hiseman | Louis Cennamo | Mark Clarke | Neil Ardley

Just when you thought there couldn't be more Colosseum cuts to be excavated, behold, you doubters, six more CDs from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Stacey Kent: The Boy Next Door

Colin Oxley | Curtis Schwartz | Dave Chamberlain | David Newton | Jim Tomlinson | Matt Home | Stacey Kent

Released in 2003, this collection of songs associated with some of her musical heroes was Kent’s last Candid release and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023

McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

Christian Sands | Corcoran Holt | Dave Stryker | Donald Harrison | Eddie Henderson | Eric Reed | Eric Wheeler | McClenty Hunter Jr | Stacy Dillard

Drummer McClenty Hunter Jr knows all about the groove roots of hard bop – he started out in gospel music,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Billy Strayhorn | Bob Wilber | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dick Wellstood | Duke Ellington | George Duvivier | Ozzie Bailey | Panama Francis | Wendell Marshall

The original album of this title was a single LP of Clark and Bob with Wilber's old sidekick Dick Wellstood...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Joe leader: Seductive Sax

This is one smooth jazz cliché after another: a live date at the Pheasantry, for the Dave Koz-recommended saxophonist....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Sandra-Mae Lux: Seasons in Jazz

Calum Gourlay | Christian Vaughan | Dave Jones | Rob Barron | Sandra-Mae Lux | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom | Tristan Maillot | Tristan Paxton

This hugely impressive collection of original songs draws from the Great American Songbook tradition, with storytelling at its core. Sandra-Mae...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2025

Peggy Lee: From The Vaults Vols. 1–4

Armando Peraza | Benny Carter | Billy May | Dave Barbour | Dave Cavanaugh | Dean Martin | Eddie Miller | Frank De Vol | Gene Di Novi | George Shearing

This four-volume digital-only set collects together a mixture of rare and (from the LP era) well-known tracks by Peggy Lee,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2025

Dave Douglas: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid

A wiser man than I on the Jazzwise crew has already named this as one of his top archive releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016

Bill Evans: Empathy + Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Connie Kay | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Monty Budwig | Percy Heath | Shelly Manne | Walter Perkins

This is relatively minor Evans, but interesting nevertheless. Dating from the year following Scott LaFaro's death, it avoids his new...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013