'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
