Results for "ACT Music"
Chroma

By Emma Rawicz
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Phlox; Xanadu I; Rangwali; Xanadu II; Middle Ground; Xanadu III; Intro to Viridian; Viridian; Falu.
Your Requests

By Laila Biali
Label: Empress Music Group (North America) / ACT Music (Europe) / CORE PORT (Japan)
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; Blame It On My Youth; But Not For Me; My Funny Valentine; My Favorite Things;
Corcovado (Quiet
Nights of Quiet Stars); Pennies from Heaven; Autumn Leaves; The Nearness of You; All the Things You
Are.
Stormy Beauty

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: About the Moment of Beginning; Unexpected Love; Symphony for the Rain; Finding Your Place; Late
Change; Stormy Beauty; Final Run; Wild Leaves Falling; Song for a Golden Blossom.
Tales of Utopia

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tales of Utopia; Entrance to the Great City; King’s Dream Pt. I; Views of Road in Crimson Red; Three
Sisters; The Advisor; King’s Dream Pt. II; The Market; Wave; Wedding Song.
Geyser

By Marius Neset
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Part 1 Waterfall; Part 2 On Fire; Part 3 Out Of Sight; Part 4 Under The Surface; Part 5 Lava; Part 6 Flow; Part 7 Meeting Magma; Part 8 Outbreak.
Marius Neset: Geyser

by Chris May
Geyser is Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset's third album with new-music ensemble London Sinfonietta. The piece was commissioned for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where this recording was made on September 3, 2022. As on the two previous albums, the Sinfonietta are joined by Neset's high-voltage jazz quintet with pianist Ivo Neame, vibraphonist Jim ...
Joe Pass: In Hamburg

by Jack Bowers
Blues, ballads, bossas, burners--it made no difference to the late Joe Pass, an uncompromising perfectionist who took them all in stride and was, if anything, almost too flawless to arouse in the listener an earnest emotional response. Listening to Pass, one quickly gains the impression that there wasn't anything he couldn't do--an impression that is borne ...
Shalosh: Tales of Utopia

by Mike Jurkovic
If we are the sum of the stories we riff to ourselves then podcast to others, then Tales of Utopia is a grand narrative by the Israeli trio of pianist/keyboardist Gadi Stern, double bassist David Michaeli and drummer Matan Assayag. Tales of Utopia, like the young, agile trio's 2020 album Broken Balance (ACT Records), ...
Emma Rawicz: Chroma

by Tom Spargo
There are only so many times that one can use phrases such as emerging talent" or upcoming star" before one must concede that the artist in question has in fact made it into the major league of jazz. With the August 2023 release of her second full-length album Chroma on the label ACT, this is precisely ...
Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty

by Mike Jurkovic
Anyone can be excused for making the early assumption that the vibrant elegance of Stormy Beauty is the effort of a well-travelled, veteran bassist and his trio. It is not. But it sounds as if it is. Strikingly concise, persuasive and effective, the young German bassist and composer Nils Kugelmann's debut is an eye-opening ...