Kevin Whitehead

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews El Arte del Sabor the new CD by the Bebo Valdes Trio (Blue Note).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new box set, Artie Shaw: Self Portrait (RCA/Bluebird). The five-CD box set of Shaws music was edited by Shaw himself.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Up Popped the Two Lips, one of two new records by composer, saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill. Threadgill recorded the album with a new sextet called Zooid.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Thrill Jockey, the new CD from the Chicago Underground Quartet. He also talks about a new re-issue of Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore East recordings.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two new Armstrong reissues: Louis and the Angels and Louis and the Good Book (both recorded in the 1950s, and released on Verve).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new anthology Woody Herman - Blowin' Up a Storm: The Columbia Years 1945-47.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Freefall featuring pianist Kenny Barron and violinist Regina Carter.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead continues with part three of his Avant-Garde Made Easy series. This time he considers composer, improviser and saxophonist Anthony Braxton.

Whitehead reviews the complete Blue Note sessions of tenor saxophonist Don Wilkerson.