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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This might well be the best Funk Unit that Nils Landgren has had gathered around him since 2010: technically outstanding, this is a group of team players who combine well with a great groove connection. James Brown meets Parliament meets ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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It would seem that cubic forces are compelling Pierrick Pédron to meet the highest challenges. Like keeping alive a trio at the heart of which, in 2012, he accomplished what you might readily call a performance. In the space — only two or ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The 29-year-old internationally acclaimed Norwegian saxophonist-composer Marius Neset takes another bold step forward into the art of contemporary extended ensemble writing on his debut recording Lion for ACT.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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France’s new jazz stars join forces in a multifaceted chamber-jazz duo paying tribute to the grand jazz and folk music history of their home country and transporting it into here and now. Alongside and thanks to his ACT colleague ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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With 'Anyone With A Heart', Iiro Rantala, definitively showing himself to be a great Neo Romantic, beyond all stylistic limitations: 'Now it's simply about my melodies.' And he conceived all of them from the outset for the classical form ...
Composer: Harold Arlen, Iiro Rantala
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
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If inquisitiveness has a name, it is Joachim Kühn. Indeed, there are few jazz musicians who have run the musical spectrum as far as this pianist. Born in 1944, Kühn has performed together with classical musicians such as ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
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George Mraz and Emil Viklický - two of the leading Czech jazz musicians united again. George Mraz is one of the most profiled bass players in the world and Emil Viklický is the 'patriarch of Czech jazz piano' (the London Evening Standard).
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
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Michael Wollny, best known as being one third of the thrillingly inventive young contemporary piano trio [em], is a musician who knows no boundaries in his search for new jazz ‘standards’. “Not a jazz standard in the traditional ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Not only the trombonist Nils Landgren has built up an enormous fan base over the decades – with his Funk Unit, with big bands and alongside the greats of jazz music – so has the vocalist Nils Landgren. His clear, throaty and yet ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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The Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine is a European jazz legend. The now 71-year-old Catherine started playing professionally when he was only 17 and toured with artists such as Lou Bennett, Dexter Gordon, Jean-Luc Ponty, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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It seems inevitable that the highly acclaimed, virtuosic pianist-composer Gwilym Simcock and multi-award winning double bassist-composer Yuri Goloubev would one day record together in a duo once their paths had crossed.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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The Pole Leszek Możdżer is 'a phenomenon' (Süddeutsche Zeitung). 'His finely grained virtuosity is fascinating entertainment that is unrivalled in the contemporary piano craft' (FAZ). Already a star in his homeland, and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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Though there are many beautiful singing voices in jazz today, Viktoria Tolstoy is one of a kind. A great melodramatist of jazz who is also bipolar, she makes happiness sound fragile and threatened, and bitterness sweet and enchanting.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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When a young jazz musician composes a suite and calls it 'Berlin Kaboom!', it calls to mind the many young guns in the German capital's jazz scene. Saxophonist Max von Mosch, who does exactly this with his first own ACT album, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
