Geyser (Live at Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms)
A stellar hour for one of today's prime composers and performers in jazz & beyond. It has been said and written many times - still, it simply can't be overstated: Norwegian Marius Neset is not only one of the most virtuoso and recognizable saxophonists of our time. He is also one of the most ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
"Mahler's Breakdown" turns the master's 5th symphony on its head: in a 50-minute techno version of the "Sinfonia Maledetta," the Jazzrausch Bigband unleashes its versatility and sheer force. In an arrangement by Jazzrausch chief composer Leonhard Kuhn, interspersed with energetic improvisations, the 15 band ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Júlio Resende has the profound ability to reinvent Portugal’s trademark deep, em otional m usic through the piano,” says the respected world music magazine Songlines of the Portuguese pianist/composer. Resende’s concept of Fado Jazz is a perfect example of how jazz has become a global language for free musical expression ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Who doesn't long for clarity, calm, peace these days... We all know by now that there are no simple answers for the complex problems of our time, BUT: there are simple melodies that appeal to our sensuality, to our humanity, that open spaces through their simplicity. Stories that lie like a warm blanket over the mental overload in our brain. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Again there is the catchy groove and the distinct melodicism that define the typical Shalosh sound. Again there is this three-piece compactness, which is already in the Hebrew "three" significant band name. "An Israeli power trio. Heavy jazz!", the German Rolling Stone and the Times critic heard a "promise". In Deutschlandfunk, there was talk of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Four wins! The debut album of the German-Swedish supergroup "4 Wheel Drive" was the most successful jazz recording in Germany in 2019. And the media were not stingy with praise either. "Four first-league jazz players with pure joy of playing and a desire for good pop music", was the verdict of ZDF's heute-journal on the ingenious and enjoyable collaboration of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Curated by Siggi Loch: Over 70 minutes of the best jazz infotainment: Magic Moments is one of the most successful compilation series of European jazz and shows a cross-section of the current ACT program, compiled by Siggi Loch. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Compilations
At the age of just twenty-one Emma Rawicz has already sown many of the important seeds for a major career. She clearly can be considered a part of the wave of Young British Jazz which has been making its mark worldwide. The North Devon-born saxophonist, whose Polish surname comes from her Warsaw-born grandfather, who settled in the UK during World War 2, has already led her band ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"It has always been really important for me," says Fio- na Grond, “not just to be the singer with the melody while the other musicians are doing everything else." So, on her ACT debut album "Poesias", the Swiss-born voca- list's voice functions as one of three instruments acting as equal partners, her singing closely intermeshed with Moritz Stahl's ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Austrian Syndicate…the phrase immediately brings to mind the best-known and most influential of all Austrians in jazz, Joe Zawinul. And yet David Helbock’s project is much more than just a homage to his compatriot. It is a return to the roots of fusion jazz and how things developed from then on. It is also a new direction stylistically for Helbock, who has harnessed a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
One of the most exciting names arising out of the UK jazz scene, the young saxophonist and composer is turning heads with her outstanding talent and original compositions. At the age of 20 she has already recorded and released an eagerly awaited debut album ‘Incantation’ featuring Ant Law, made up entirely of her original compositions. Emma’s second album is being recorded in summer 2022 and will feature an ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Berlin might well be considered widely as the creative hub of the German jazz scene, but in the deep south of the country there is another city where talented and promising musicians are finding new pathways in jazz. Among these, for example, are the Jazzrausch Bigband, vocalist Alma Naidu and guitarist Philipp Schiepek. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic - Komeda (Live)
Krzysztof Komeda has legendary status in Polish jazz, and was also one of the pioneers of European jazz. His wider fame resides largely in his work as a film composer – he wrote the soundtracks for all of Roman Polanski’s early films, notably "Dance of the Vampires" and "Rosemary's Baby". Komeda died in 1969, tragically early, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“When I seek another word for ‘music’, I never find any other word than ‘Venice’.” Friedrich Nietzsche. The Italian city built in the water, a metropolis of art and music, a place of myths and yearnings, where renowned artists have created amazing work: Venice. How could its beauty and mystery, its architecture and its centuries of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover 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-mindedness towards all musical cultures, genres and tendencies; and yet French musicians also give off the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“Your Requests”, Laila Biali’s third album on ACT, shows a very different side of the craft of the Canadian pianist/vocalist from its predecessors. Both her self-titled debut album, which won the Canadian Juno Award for Best Vocal Jazz album in 2019, and also its successor, “Out of Dust” (nominated for the award in 2021), ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The 2022 Jazzfest Berlin performance by revered, iconoclastic reedist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan Gnaoua adept Majid Bekkas playing the two-stringed, camelskin-backed guembri, and Chicago-bred drummer Hamid Drake, documented as Catching Ghosts, is historic. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Ghana has an ancient tradition of story-telling, so the continuance of this great heritage can take many forms... and not just ones that involve the voice or words. Peter Somuah spins tales which come from his instrument: as a young trumpet-player, he embarked on a fascinating search for his identity between the Highlife music of his native country, Miles ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
In “Voices”, Mathieu Saglio, with his quartet and a fascinating roster of guest vocal soloists from many countries, follows a bold dream. “Voices” builds on the success and the momentum of Saglio’s previous ACT album “El Camino de los Vientos'' (2020), a 'varied musical journey through the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia.'(JAZZTHETIK). Both Fono Forum ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
"Jakob Manz will always surprise you," says pianist /keyboardist Roberto Di Gioia, who produced the 21-year-old's new album alongside Siggi Loch. "It is widely known that Jakob can play the saxophone unbelievably well, and also that he can take it in just about every conceivable direction in modern jazz. What is less appreciated is how authentic he ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
