Ella Fitzgerald: Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook

Paul Weston | Ella Fitzgerald

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

Diana Krall

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

Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band: Antidote

Steve Davis | Marcus Gilmore | Carlitos Del Puerto | Nino de los Reys | Chick Corea | Gayle Moran Corea | Michael Rodriguez | Maria Bianca | Rubén Blades | Jorge Prado

There's no shortage of compositions – not least ‘Spain’ – or albums by Chick Corea that reflect his love of...

Reviewed in issue September/2019

Philip Bailey: Love Will Find a Way

Earth, Wind & Fire's original vocalist pays warm tribute to soul music heroes Curtis and Marvin with the gloss of...

Reviewed in issue August/2019