Reviews
Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday
Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024
Nina Simone: You’ve Got To Learn
Lisle Atkinson | Bobby Hamilton | Rudy Stevenson | Nina Simone
At just 32 minutes in length, this album is short, but very much on the sweet side; in fact, it's...
Reviewed in issue September/2023
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook
Most live Ella, at least after her big-band days, found her in front of a trio or quartet, with the...
Reviewed in issue August/2022
Julius Rodriguez: Let Sound Tell All
Julius Rodriguez | Giveton Gelin
Improvising musicians who see themselves as much as producers as players have been with us for some time, and Julius...
Reviewed in issue August/2022
Bass Desires: The Sound of Summer Running
Marc Johnson | Bill Frisell | Joey Baron | Pat Metheny
Marc Johnson had already made two Bass Desires albums on the ECM label when he was signed by Verve. On...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes
Paul Smith | Stan Levey | Ella Fitzgerald | Wilfred Middlebrooks
Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes finds the First Lady of Song at the height of her inimitable powers. The majestic...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutTakes: Previously Unreleased Takes from the Original 1959 Sessions
Joe Morello | Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Paul Desmond
Time Out, lest anybody needs reminding, was the first platinum-selling album in jazz, and the 45 rpm single from it,...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Diana Krall: This Dream Of You
Fans of Diana Krall's most recent solo album, her 2017 release Turn Up the Quiet, will be delighted to hear...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Coleman Hawkins | Alvin Stoller | Ray Brown | Ben Webster
It's a somewhat rare phenomenon these days for a classic jazz album to be reissued by its copyright ‘owners’. The...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Stan Getz: Getz At The Gate
Steve Kuhn | Stan Getz | Roy Haynes | John Neves
The discovery of an unissued live set, recorded 58 years ago by Verve at a venue it was using sporadically,...
Reviewed in issue September/2019
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