The trio format has always been something of an ideal for Jan Lundgren. That particular buzz when communication between the musicians in a trio is direct, immediate and ever-present...when the trio keeps a constant sense of forward motion and development...when the players collectively remain open to the inspiration of every millisecond. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The widespread positive response to “Lampedusa Lullaby”, KUU!’s 2018 label debut on ACT also gave rise to enthusiastic, imaginative and telling descriptions of the band’s music: “An alchemically complex jazz punk alloy. […] Really rather wonderful.”( PROG magazine). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
It is hard to believe it as one listens to this album: pianist Vincent Meissner is just twenty years old. The drummer in the trio, incidentally, is even younger. Recognition for this major talent has started to grow, however, and the prizes are rolling in. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
As an Unperfect Actor (Nine Shakespeare Sonnets)
Austrian actor Birgit Minichmayr captures the imagination and holds centre-stage on “As An Unperfect Actor – Nine Sonnets by William Shakespeare”. Composer/ pianist Bernd Lhotzky and Quadro Nuevo have provided her with a wonderful array of musical contexts. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Beauty of sound, melodic elegance, dream-like interplay and atmospherically dense jazz compositions: Lars Danielsson's Liberetto has built up a reputation as one of the finest jazz ensembles in Europe and this new release merely enhances that point of view. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Funk is my Religion" is the band’s eleventh album – the album title just says it all. Landgren and his Norsemen bring a passion, an intensity and a freshness to their craft which has remained undimmed since the start. For more than 25 years, jazz-funk has been the force driving Landgren. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
“An insightful and versatile guitarist.” (All About Jazz). “He has found a sound that is his own - and it is always imbued with both beauty and excitement” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). The responses to Munich-based guitarist Philipp Schiepek’s 2019 debut album marked him out as a musician ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Four greats of jazz & beyond join for a week of collective, entirely free improvisation, later to be transformed into a radical, intense, exciting recording of truly new music. This story begins with just one sound, originating in the place which Berlin jazz people think of as their living room, the A-Trane. Back in December 2019, the club ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“What Neset does on the saxophone is nothing less than taking this instrument into a new dimension” (Süddeutsche Zeitung.) The energy and the unassailable virtuosity with which Marius Neset burst onto the scene have not been forgotten. Back in 2004, as a nineteen-year old student recently moved to Copenhagen, he won the Talent Award ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“Jazzrausch Bigband is making jazz sexy again” (Bayerischer Rundfunk). And Downbeat has singled out not just the band’s “high-voltage performances” and “party atmosphere”, but also the amount of experimentation going on. With their dazzling confidence, genuine authenticity and communicative ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Three renowned bandleaders & solo artists of European jazz come together to form a very special trio. What unites them is the love for clear themes, melodies, harmonies, with a strong rhythmic grounding. Qualities that originate in the cool jazz of the 40s and 50s which philosophy the trio continues using ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Chamber music from another world: Willeitner, Breinschmid and Jenner open up new paths for the string instruments: a celebration of musical freedom and curiosity, full of technique, tempo and thematic variety! With his first album on ACT, we witness a first culmination of these endeavours: a trio project with Florian Willeitner and two similarly ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
A solo piano introspective of one of the world's great jazz piano icons. An intimate, reduced song album, with darkly shimmering renditions of iconic pop songs and jazz compositions, classical influences and original pieces. A late work of a revolutionary musician. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call (Live)
The two guitar icons Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine have a long history and a close musical affinity, despite their different influences on this and the other side of the Atlantic. Recorded on January 27, 2017 as part of the "Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic" series, "The Last Call" is the last ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On his album „Odd Wisdom“, drummer Diego Piñera, together with a stellar cast of musicians, united the groove and vibe ot three different worlds: The percussive variety of his Latin-American origin, the urge for constant renewal of his current home Berlin and the energy of the metropolis ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Janne Mark writes hymns. And yet there is nothing about her that is stuck in a fusty tradition. She writes in the here and now, she is socially aware and committed, and in her work she draws on the freedom of jazz and all of the breadth of the Scandinavian folk tradition. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
When Frank Woeste's "Pocket Rhapsody" album was released in early 2016, the pianist earned a well-deserved place in the limelight. Here was a pianist who “doesn’t sound like anyone else out there at the moment" (London Jazz News) with a "style at once powerful, elegant, rousing and outlandish" ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
When the Franco-Algerian singer, cellist and songwriter Nesrine Belmokh and her trio NES appeared on the scene in 2018 they seemed to emerge from nowhere. Many parts of the music world in Europe were taken by surprise by her, and completely captivated as well. Now, for her second album named simply after her ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Christmas 2020 will be unlike the Christmases of the past, because the Covid-19 crisis and social distancing have fundamentally changed the way we live. Maybe they will also make us yearn more for the true spirit and the joys of Christmas. As we reflect and contemplate on what is important to us, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
