JJ Johnson & Kai Winding: Trombones For Two – The Classic Collaborations 1953-56

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | Bart Varsalona | Bennie Green | Bill Brown | Billy Bauer | Bob Alexander | Candido Camero | Charles Mingus | Danny Bank

Seeing Johnson and Winding side by side on their sole UK appearance together in September 1958, as part of the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Warne Marsh

A great showcase for Marsh with Paul Chambers, plus on some tracks Paul Motian and on the rest Philly Joe...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Billie Poole: Sermonette/Confessin’ The Blues

Robust singing from Poole with Jimmy Jones’s big band forms part of this CD, but the second original album with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Sarah Vaughan: The Early Years 1944-48

This early period of Vaughan’s work has often been covered in previous compilations, but this one is as good as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Album Interview: Christian McBride Big Band: Bringin' It

Brandee Younger | Brandon Lee | Carl Marachi | Christian McBride | Dan Pratt | Douglas Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | James Burton | Joe McDonough

Christian McBride has an ebullient character – it bursts from his double-bass and it expands naturally to his writing and...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2017

Tony Lakatos: Home Tone

Axel Schlosser | Billy Drummond | Robert Hurst | Robi Botos | Tony Lakatos

Lavishly endorsed by Dave Liebman on the album jacket, Hungarian-born tenorist Tony Lakatos is hailed as a fine player of...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012

Moses Boyd: Dark Matter

Arnaud Gichaud | Artie Zaitz | Binker Golding | Chelsea Carmichael | Ife Ogunjobi | Joe Armon Jones | Klein | Michael Underwood | Moses Boyd | Nathaniel Cross

Moses Boyd has a knack for melding genres and for presenting his work in a way that makes it not...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Bob Holz: Holz-Stathis Collaborative

Ada Rovatti | Airto Moreira | Alex Acuna | Bob Holz | Brandon Fields | Darryl Jones | Dean Brown | Diane Moreira | Jamie Glaser | Jean Luc Ponty

This release climaxes with the tune ‘Lookin’ Back’ and that’s exactly what this amalgam of fusion energy and smooth jazz...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024

Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra: Down A Rabbit Hole

The first recording for over a decade from Inserto, a Singapore-born US resident and protégé of the Bob Brookmeyer Jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Count Basie: Basic Basie

The 1969 Basie band recorded for MPS has a looser rhythm section than heretofore (with Norman Keenan and Harold Jones)...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015