Nominated for the Victoires du Jazz 2015 as Jazz Revelation of the year, Martinique-born, Paris-based Grégory Privat continues his rise into the big league. “Family Tree” is his first trio recording and ACT debut.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
BIX (A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke)
This 2-album set is a homage to a (often forgotten) legend and key figure in jazz. Besides Louis Armstrong, American jazz cornetist and pianist Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s.
Composer: Bix Beiderbecke
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Cool
Impromptu meetings can have far-reaching consequences. German pianist Michael Wollny and French accordionist Vincent Peirani quite literally got to know each other on stage during the ACT20 Jubilee Night at the “New Morning” club in
Composer: Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Andreas Schaerer, Vincent Peirani, Michael Wollny, Samuel Barber
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The French jazz scene has a vitality, an originality and a do-it- all and do-it-anyway mentality about it right now. It is French musicians who are blazing the new trails for contemporary European jazz. There is a wonderful open-
Composer: Emile Parisien, Julien Touéry, Joachim Kühn, Ivan Gélugne, Sylvain Darrifourcq
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Live concerts by the Michael Wollny Trio are always experiences to be treasured. These three ideally matched musicians never fail to find fascinating new directions for the music, or to take the listener by surprise. At the end of October 2015, when Wollny, Weber und Schaefer were setting
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti, Alban Berg, Michael Wollny, Guillaume de Machaut, Christ Beier, Eric Schaefer
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VI: Celtic Roots
The 6th edition of the celebrated concert series live from the Berlin Philharmonie: Earthy blues from Norway, jazz and folk: this high-calibre celtic-nordic connection is aware of its roots and creates its very distinct and new musical cosmos
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
This new trio album with Peter Erskine (drums) and Lars Danielsson (bass) constitutes a many-faceted summing-up of a happy and resoundingly creative phase of Rantala’s life. "Avoid the basic concept of the jazz piano trio and make it
Composer: Kenny Barron, Iiro Rantala, Lars Danielsson, Jimi Hendrix, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Peter Erskine
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The album „snowmelt“ is Neset's most ambitious, cherished and personal project to date. In these concentrated works, Neset has sought out chaos and dissonance, he has also been drawn to lyricism and tenderness, and then worked at finding
Composer: Marius Neset
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
“Musicians can’t really invent anything completely new,” says the 32-year old Austrian-born pianist David Helbock. “What we can do is to take ideas, and add something of ourselves. When things are working well, what emerges from that is
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), David Helbock, Ernest Gold, John Williams
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Out of the Ordinary: The first thing one notices about Jukka Perko's instrumental trio Avara is its unusual set-up: saxophone, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. While that might seem an outlandish combination, the harmonic
Composer: Teemu Viinikainen, Jukka Perko, Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Peter Gabriel, Jarmo Saari, Eric Clapton, Will Jennings
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
It happens so rarely nowadays. Three musicians, who all make their homes in Copenhagen, met for the very first time as a trio in a studio. That initial encounter was recorded, and an extremely fine record is the result.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
This band, formed around former e.s.t. bassist Dan Berglund, 'loves to tear down genre borders [...] and exposes a fascinating sound somewhere between Jazz and Rock' (Stern magazine). Now, with their fourth album, Tonbruket continue
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
On “Bliss”, Eric Schaefer and his band The Shredz blend the fusion jazz of the sixties with the jazz dub of the nineties and the club music of today to concoct an explosive hubble-bubble of a magic brew. Although it sometimes sounds like it,
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
On “Beauty & Truth” a different Joachim Kühn can be heard. His new trio members Eric Schaefer and Chris Jennungs energized Kühn in a new way: his piano-playing is powerful and clear, and musically he has a way of going straight to the
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V (Lost Hero - Tears for Esbjörn)
No other European jazz pianist has had such a formative influence in his field in recent years as the Swede Esbjörn Svensson, who died far too soon in 2008. In changing constellations, moods and interpretations, Iiro Rantala,
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The Long Wait is Over. Mare Nostrum presents 'The Sound of Europe'….. Part Two. Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, French accordionist Richard Galliano and Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren form the trio “Mare Nostrum”. This band forges
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Some Other Time - A Tribute To Leonard Bernstein
Right in time for Nils Landgren's 60th birthday celebration the most elaborate project of his unparalleled career will be published. This album includes the music of musicals like 'West Side Story and a phenomenal line-up, among others
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The best thing I've ever heard! You've just gotta love their energy, the way they enjoy their music. Plus their team spirit, ability, playfulness...and their cojones. Thanks guys, just keep on doing what you do - live and on CD!'
Composer: Tobias Fleischer, Matti Klein, Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth, Pat Appleton, Felix Falk, Andre Seidel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Kalle Kalima puts the Western back into country and western. High Noon: Wind scrapes across the empty streets... timorous townsfolk peek through closed shutters… as three figures head into town: a guitar-toting Finn from Berlin, Kalle
Composer: Stan Jones, Dimitri Tiomkin, Jimmy Kennedy, Jean Sibelius, Michael Carr, Jack Thorp, Leonard Cohen, Marty Robbins, Hiski Salomaa
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Jazz
