Nucleus – Live at the BBC (Repertoire Records Repuk 1410. 13-CD set. Album review by Rob Adams) Dave Pegg, the bass guitarist with Fairport Convention, once likened that band’s manifold personnel changes […]
The 41st of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds a great composer-arranger getting the best from an Anglo-American ensemble. One of the late John Cumming’s many good deeds was bringing George Russell over […]
Stan Tracey Quartet/Big Brass – From Stan, With Love (Resteamed Records 2CD set – Album review by Mark McKergow) This double CD features glorious jazz from the early heyday of pianist Stan Tracey’s long career. […]
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Decca 5393586. Album review by Denny Ilett) The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; […]
Neil Ardley – Kaleidoscope of Rainbows – Live ‘75 (Jazz in Britain JIB-21-S-CD/JIB-21-S-DL. Album Review by Jon Turney) Neil Ardley, active in UK jazz mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, left a […]
