Emma Rawicz – Chroma (ACT CD 9973-2. Album review by Jon Turney) Saxophonist Emma Rawicz’s second CD release, her debut on the ACT label, is an impressively accomplished affair, bristling with the […]
Emma Rawicz – ‘Chroma’
Emma Rawicz signs to ACT Music (new album ‘Chroma’ for release 25 August)
Emma Rawicz (21…!) has signed to ACT Music. Her first album for the label is called “Chroma”, the title a reference to her synaesthesia, and all of the tracks are named after […]
Bill Laurance & Michael League – ‘Where You Wish You Were’
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 […]
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 […]
