Bill Laurance & Michael League – Where You Wish You Were (ACT ACT 9961-2. Album review by Rob Mallows) For a duo album by two of the most prominent members of jazz […]
Bill Laurance & Michael League – ‘Where You Wish You Were’
Esbjörn Svensson (solo piano, rec. 2008) – ‘HOME.S’
Esbjörn Svensson – HOME.S (ACT. ACT9053-2. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) HOME.S is Esbjörn Svensson‘s only solo album, released in November more than fourteen years after his untimely death. Svensson’s wife Eva […]
‘Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII – Sketches of Miles’ (Theo Croker)
Theo Croker Quartet and members of the Berlin Philharmonic (arr Magnus Lindgren) – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII – Sketches of Miles (ACT 9948-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) To open CD 1 […]
Michael Wollny Trio – ‘Ghosts’
Michael Wollny Trio – Ghosts (release date 30 Sep 2022)(ACT 9956-2. CD review by Mike Collins) With the release of Ghosts, pianist Michael Wollny reunites the trio that recorded Weltentraum, the 2014 […]
Iiro Rantala – ‘Potsdam’
Iiro Rantala – Potsdam (ACT 9946-2. Album Review by Alison Bentley) “Jazz needs melodies,” says Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. “It needs things that people can latch on to.” And melodies bring together […]
KUU! – ‘Artificial Sheep’ album launch at Kammerspiele, Munich
KUU! – Artificial Sheep album launch (Kammerspiele, Munich. 21 October 2021. Live review and photos by Ralf Dombrowski(*)) The theatre really is the right place for KUU! This band has a love […]
Marius Neset – ‘A New Dawn’
Marius Neset – A New Dawn (ACT 9930-2. Album review by Jon Turney) The lavishly gifted Marius Neset has turned more to large ensemble projects of late, but his remarkable saxophone playing […]
David Helbock – ‘The New Cool’
David Helbock – The New Cool(ACT Music, 9927-2. Album review by Adrian Pallant) David Helbock is clearly a guy who is difficult to pigeonhole, his Random Control Trio project, for example, often […]
Joachim Kühn – ‘Touch the Light’
Joachim Kühn – Touch the Light (ACT 9766-2. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Put the words ‘music’ and ‘Ibiza’ in the same sentence and many people will visualise either superstar DJs pumping […]
