Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without a Trace

A 10-year-old NYC big band in the post-Thad Jones lineage with a progressive harmonic approach (there's a 12-tone row piece,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Sonny Stitt: The Latin Sides

Two 1963 albums (Primitivo Soul and Stitt Goes Latin) originally out on Prestige and Roost show Stitt’s typically assertive sound,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Jazz At The Philharmonic: 1958-1960 Live in Paris

Art Davis | Benny Carter | Chuck Lampkin | Coleman Hawkins | Daniel Jordan | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Byas | Gus Johnson | Herb Ellis | J.J. Johnson

The common factor linking this 3CD concert collection is the location: Paris, with the Olympia and Salle Pleyel as alternating...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2016

Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows

Al Killian | Al Sears | Barney Bigard | Ben Webster | Billy Strayhorn | Billy Taylor | Britt Woodman | Buster Cooper | Chuck Connors | Claude Jones

Unlike the excellent George Lewis and Louis Armstrong boxes from Storyville, which I have reviewed here in the past year,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

SEED Ensemble: Driftglass

Cassie Kinoshi | Chelsea Carmichael | Cherise Adams-Burnett | Joe Armon-Jones | Joe Bristow | Miguel Gorodi | Mr. Ekow | Patrick Boyle | Rio Kai | Sarah Tandy

Though Cassie Kinoshi is fully aware of 1960s American civil rights suites such as her alto icon Jackie McLean’s It’s...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2019

Various: The Road To Jajouka

Aïyb Dieng | Al Maddy | Bachir Attar | Bill Laswell | Billy Martin | Chris Wood | Danny Blume | Dave Dreitwitz | DJ Logic | Falu

For centuries, a remote village in the southern Rif mountains of Morocco has been home to the ecstatic trance rituals...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Ethel Ennis & Ernestine Anderson: Four Classic Albums Plus

Abie Baker | Barry Galbraith | Benny Golson | Charlie Persip | Eddie Biggs | Ernestine Anderson | Ernie Royal | Ernie Wilkins | Ethel Ennis | Gigi Gryce

Baltimore-born Ennis (1932-2019) largely stayed close to home, only occasionally moving into and out of national awareness. Her Sings Lullabies...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025

Various Artists: Jazz At The Philharmonic Complete Live In Stockholm 1960

Art Davis | Benny Carter | Candido Camero | Cannonball Adderley | Chuck Lampkin | Coleman Hawkins | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Byas | Herb Ellis | JJ Johnson

It has never been a perfect world, but if it were, then commemorative stamps would be issued, coins struck and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Paul Desmond: Glad to be Unhappy

Connie Kay | Gene Cherico | Gene Wright | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond

Today, for the majority of younger jazz fans/jazz students/musicians, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond is gone (he died in 1977) and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

Lem Winchester: New Faces At Newport/A Tribute To Clifford Brown

Lem Winchester

Don't know about nowadays, but the vibraphone was once regarded as the most difficult instrument to record; the sound of...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013