Saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa examines the influence of Charlie Parker through a 21st century jazz lens. Featuring Matt Mitchell, François Moutin, Rudy Royston, and 20-year-old trumpet prodigy Adam O’Farrill.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The Norwegian singer-songwriter Randi Tytingvåg has the power to light up audiences with her music. It is feel-good music in the best sense of the term, with oodles of charm. Tytingvåg’s ingredients for her music are many and varied.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
'I always associate visuals with music - and music with visuals,' says New York based, french-born pianist and composer, Romain Collin. From the very first note on his ACT debut, Press Enter, his music creates evocative moving
Composer: Romain Collin
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
'Mein Beethoven' is the logical next step for Dieter Ilg. His last album 'Parsifal' – a chamber-jazz interpretation of Richard Wagner's sacred festival work, which Focus magazine called a 'highlight in the Richard Wagner Year 2013'
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Jazz
Artists prize certain recording studios as much as they do producers or players. The room that adequately captures sound and provides optimal conditions for musicians working at the highest creative level is much in demand, and
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Accordionist Vincent Peirani is THE new voice of his instrument. In rapid succession he has won the Prix Django d’Or and the Victoires du Jazz in France and was elected “Artist of the Year” by the French “Jazz Magazine”.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Weltentraum Live (Philharmonie Berlin)
“Michael Wollny overwhelms the audience in the Muffathalle. […] The amazing thing about it is that he did so with pure jazz. […] It is quite possible that this Jazznights tour may mark the birth of a new star. And it wouldn't be the wrong ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Celebrating the Dark Side of the Moon
March, 1973... A quartet known for its psychedelic inclinations delivered a fortress of an album: 'The Dark Side of The Moon' was a musical UFO featuring the most advanced technology of the period, a stratospheric record which ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
And year after year it rings out at Christmastime: Nils Landgren's 'Christmas With My Friends' ensemble is a loyal companion for the most wonderful time of the year. The fourth edition presents, yet again, a diverse selection of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Tobias Christl, born 1978, is a rarity, a singer the likes of which there never was before in German jazz. Neither a crooner nor a scatter, and least of all a pop musician disguised as a jazzer. Much more a storyteller, somewhere ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Ten years have gone by since this quartet — under a name of pure convenience — undertook the Suite for the first time, a jubilant voyage through varying climates which the quartet covered in a flux of juvenile energy, constant musical ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Unmistakably now one of the best pianists in Europe, Jacob Karlzon’s music and personality are possessed of a radiance and vitality that has won audiences over worldwide. But Karlzon wants more – in terms of sound, composition and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
'The Key', the debut album of the Mauritian pianist now resident in France, Jerry Léonide, is the key to a whole world; to the music and joie de vivre of an island paradise 1,700 km from the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
'Never change a winning team' – The old sporting wisdom can also be applied to music: When soul mates and perfectly matched musicians find one another, they are well advised to stick together. 'Liberetto II' by the exceptional Swedish ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The Duet: one of the most minimalist ways of making music together, but also one of the most enthralling - two people relying entirely on each other in a magical dialogue full of candour and harmony.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The first live album and ACT debut of the worldwide reknown drummer: A great night at the Parisian New Morning full of intensity, spirit and magic. June. Monday night. Inside the New Morning, the atmosphere is special: the faithful are ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Libera Me (Remastered reissues)
With this debut release on ACT by Swedish bassist and composer Lars Danielsson, the label starts a new series. It will please not just the usual jazz lovers used to a high musical quality, but also high-end music fans who want to ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic II (Live)
A blues guitar introduces the melody, restrained, elegiac and yet full of energy. A clear, female voice takes over, its power potentiated by its uncanny serenity. A piano gathers together the theme one more time before all of them, joined by an ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
After his acclaimed ACT debut, for which he was awarded as 'best international instrumentalist' with the german Jazz Echo, Adam Baldych returns with Yaron Herman on the piano as a duo. Together they lose themselves in melodious ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
play Sidney Bechet 'Petite Fleur'
It is the authenticity, music constantly on the move, full of energy, lightness, and melancholia, that I find so fascinating about Sidney Bechet. His spirit, which transforms music into wonderful images, seduced me to delve into his cosmos.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
