Reviews
Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)
Kenny Clarke | Sonny Rollins | Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Pete LaRoca
In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...
Reviewed in issue September/2024
Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
Slam Stewart | Everett Barksdale | Art Tatum
According to his biographer James Lester, it was around the time of this recording that Tatum heard from his doctor...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings
Prior to the release of this remarkable discovery of 17 unissued 1965 Half Note recordings by Wes Montgomery and the...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024
Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony
Though the selling point is perhaps that both Hargrove and Miller departed well before their time (Roy in 2018 aged...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette's six-month tenure as a member of the Bill Evans Trio – he left to heed the call of...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Sonny Rollins: Rollins In Holland
Sonny Rollins | Han Bennink | Ruud Jacobs
The colossus has been forced to hang up his horn, but there could be not better way to celebrate his...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Bob James: Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions
This reviewer has been fairly well insulated from Bob James, apart from the inevitable ‘Angela/Theme From Taxi’ and his very...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Nat King Cole: Hittin' The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943)
This exceptional 7CD/10LP set keeps up the extraordinary standards that Resonance has set in issuing previously unheard or obscure material...
Reviewed in issue February/2020
Wes Montgomery: Wes's Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance
Over the last few years Resonance has performed remarkable acts of musical archaeology, in particular researching and issuing material by...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
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