Dexter Gordon: The Resurgence Of Dexter Gordon: From Los Angeles to New York

Al Harewood | Charles Green | Dexter Gordon | Dolo Coker | Freddy Hubbard | George Tucker | Horace Parlan | Kenny Drew | Laurence Marable | Martin Banks

The three albums that make up this 2CD compilation capture Dexter Gordon confidently claiming his place in the tenor sax...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2018

Bud Shank: Quintet and Sextet

Early–1960s collaborations between Shank and trumpeter Carmell Jones including some fine playing and some fine extended soloing from Shank, mainly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Barbara Long: Soul: The Voice of Barbara Long

Two sessions by this most fleet-voiced of 1960s jazz vocalists, blending perfectly with ensembles featuring respectively Booker Ervin and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Ben Webster/Harry Edison: Complete Quintet Studio Sessions

Sister album to the same label’s complete collection of sextet sides by Ben and Sweets, this is slightly looser in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Miles Davis: Workin'/The Musings Of Miles

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Garland | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | John Lewis | Jones | Max Roach | Miles Davis | Oscar Pettiford

Christmas came early for me, thanks to the arrival of these public-domain reissues, all of them except Kind Of Blue...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013

Ray Charles: The Complete ABC Recordings 1959-1961

Ray Charles

Such was Ray Charles's profile when he left Atlantic that he immediately secured one of the most lucrative deals of...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012

Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts

Betty Glamann | Hank Jones | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach | Oscar Pettiford | Sonny Rollins

Two more beautifully-presented and splendid-sounding reissues from UK indie New Land, who, after the recent Mingus box set (see review...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2024

Kuzu: All Your Ghosts in One Corner

Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis leads an exhaustingly relentless free jazz sax-guitar trio set; performing live immediately pre-lockdown, the recording has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Count Basie: The Legendary New Testament Band 1952-55

AK Salim | Al Hibbler | Benny Powell | Buck Clayton | Buddy Rich | Buster Harding | Charlie Fowlkes | Count Basie | Don Redman | Eddie Jones

The big band put together after Basie had spent more than a year leading an octet coalesced gradually, with Sonny...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2023