Frank Foster: The Loud Minority

Airto Moreira | Cecil Bridgewater | Charles McGee | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Dick Griffin | Earl Dunbar | Elvin Jones | Frank Foster | Gene Perla | Harold Mabern

Although best-known as one of the stars of the Basie band, Foster was also a fine composer, as ‘Shiny Stockings’...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014

The Rempis/Daisy Duo: Second Spring

The feral tenor horn player Dave Rempis, an ex-member of Chicago's The Vandermark Five, and the drummer Tim Daisy join...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Matt Ulery: By a Little Light

A two-disc set by a Chicago-based chamber septet composer-bassist with some traits of the release label's owner Dave Douglas' work,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Lorraine Feather: Attachments

The journalist’s daughter, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter takes a conversational, Joni Mitchell-ish approach to originals in a band featuring Russell Ferrante, Dave...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Lucy Ann Polk: But Beautiful

Formerly Les Brown's vocalist, Polk came off the road and devoted herself to studio work with Marty Paich and Dave...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Dinah Washington: The Swingin' Miss D

One of the must-have Washington collections, with a few extra tracks than the legitimate Verve reissue, this has her accompanied...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Milt Jackson: Quintet and Sextet with Lucky Thompson

Melange of 1950s dates from Savoy and Atlantic, this has Bags in fi ne form, sparring mainly with Hank Jones,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Billy Eckstine: Four Classic Albums Plus

The best of ‘B’ from 1957-1961, of which the Basie and Quincy Jones collaborations are highlights, during what has to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Kathrine Windfield Big Band: Aircraft

Danish pianist-composer Kathrine Windfield fronts a high-spirited contemporary swinging Euro jazz ensemble with Cannonball Adderley, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Duke Ellington: Highlights of the Great 1940-1942 Band

One or two European reissues aside, RCA's own CDs of the Blanton-Webster band largely suffered from poor sound quality, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015