Review of Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980)

Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980)

Bill Evans

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Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

There's a huge amount of good music here, as indeed there should be from a compilation covering a quarter-century. A...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2021

Review of Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Herbie Hancock | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Ron Carter

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★★

Columbia/Legacy propose making this set available from Friday, 17 July 2015 – 60 years to the day of Davis' breakthrough...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Review of Jaco Pastorious: Word Of Mouth

Jaco Pastorious: Word Of Mouth

Chuck Findley | Don Alias | Herbie Hancock | Howard Johnson | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Jaco Pastorious | John Clark | Michael Brecker | Mike Gibbs

Warners Atlantic

Rating: ★★★★

One of the era's great albums: and not just because of Pastorious' bravura playing, of which of course there's plenty,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Review of Harvey Mason: Changing Partners: Trios 2

Harvey Mason: Changing Partners: Trios 2

Buster Williams | Chick Corea | Dave Carpenter | Dave Grusin | Eric Scott Reed | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Harvey Mason | Jacky Terrasson | James Genus | Joey Calderazzo

Evosound

Rating: ★★★

Drummer-producer-composer-session royal Harvey Mason is known first and foremost as a funky fusioneer, thanks to his fine work with Herbie...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2025

Review of Owen Broder: Heritage: The American Roots Project

Owen Broder: Heritage: The American Roots Project

Alphonso Horne | Bill Holman | Frank Kimbrough | James Shipp | Jay Anderson | Jim McNeely | Kate McGarry | Matt Wilson | Miho Hazama | Nick Finzer

ArtistShare

Rating: ★★★★

A highly unusual debut album for reedsman Broder, aiming to create a jazz setting for the kind of folk influence...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2018

Review of Ernesto Cervini: Joy

Ernesto Cervini: Joy

Adrean Farrugia | Alexx Samaras | Amy Cervini | Artie Roth | Dan Fortin | Don Scott | Emilie-Claire Barlow | Ernesto Cervini | Felicity Williams | Jim Lewis

Three Pine Records

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the bestselling Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series of detective novels by Louise Penny; and featuring an impressive cast...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2022

Review of Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown: Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown

Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown: Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown

Bennie Green | Billy Taylor Sr. | Budd Johnson | Clifford Brown | Ernie Wilkins | Freddie Green | Herbie Mann | JC Heard | Jimmy Jones | Joe Benjamin

20th Century Masterworks

Rating: ★★★★

The core of this album is nine of the 10 acclaimed tracks that Sarah Vaughan recorded with her regular trio...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2021

Review of The Stan Tracey Quartet: Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood

The Stan Tracey Quartet: Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood

Bobby Wellins | Jackie Dougan | Jeff Clyne | Stan Tracey

ReSteamed

Rating: ★★★★★

In Stan Tracey’s lifetime, this album was routinely regarded as ‘A Classic of British Jazz’, but it is now an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023

Review of Vic Lewis: Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova/At Home (London) And Away (Hollywood)

Vic Lewis: Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova/At Home (London) And Away (Hollywood)

Al Hendrickson | Bob Cooper | Bud Shank | Don Bagley | Freddie Logan | Freddy Logan | Jack Sheldon | Jimmy Deuchar | Kenny Clare | Laurindo Almeida

HMV

Rating: ★★

Vic Lewis had two life long passions – Stan Kenton and cricket. Though, in the 1950s Vic modeled his Big...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2014

Review of High Pulp: Pursuit of Ends

High Pulp: Pursuit of Ends

Alex Dugdale | Andrew Morrill | Antoine Martel | Bobby Granfelt | Brandee Younger | Greg Kramer | Greg Uhles | Isaac Poole | Jacob Mann | Jaleel Shaw

ANTI-Records

Rating: ★★★

Synths, synths and more synths – and 1970s synths too… I’m liking this!Those were my first thoughts when listening to...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2022

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