Home » Search Center » Results: ACT Music
Results for "ACT Music"
Wolfgang Haffner: Round Silence
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'eterogeneità può essere una ricchezza così come un limite. Può significare varietà di tracciati, trasversalità, oppure genericità, qualunquismo espressivo. Dipende sempre dai risultati, certo, ma anche dalla coerenza più o meno sottopelle, intestina, da quel fil rouge, quella ragion d'essere complessiva, che ogni proposta deve possedere. Questo CD del quarantacinquenne batterista tedesco Wolfgang Haffner è indubbiamente ...
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by Ian Patterson
Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has come a long way in a short time, since casting off from her French quintet of a decade and turning down a five-album deal from Label Bleu, in order to pursue absolute artistic freedom. Her ACT debut, Voyage (ACT Music, 2009), was a stylish introduction to a strikingly original voice, ...
Yaron Herman: Follow The White Rabbit
by Bruce Lindsay
Follow The White Rabbit is Israeli pianist Yaron Herman's fifth album--his first on the ACT label and his first with the rhythm section of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Tommy Crane. Continuing the format of his past trio albums A Time For Everything (Laborie Records, 2007) and Muse (Laborie Records, 2009), Herman mixes original tunes and ...
Vijay Iyer: Solo
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Vijay Iyer may be one of the great ones; only time will tell. The pianist has risen to become a critics' darling, mostly on the basis of his quartet outings, including the much-lauded Reimagining (Savoy Jazz, 2005) and Tragicomic (Sunnyside Records, 2008). He's worked a trio magic, to, -with his piano/saxophone/drums Fieldwork group, on the ...
Danilo Rea: Piano Works X: Danilo Rea at Schloss Elmau – A Tribute to Fabrizio De André
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inciso a fine gennaio allo Schloss Elmau, lussuoso hotel bavarese, questo CD annette al jazz, monograficamente, il songbook di colui che rappresenta oggi (ma non da oggi, del resto) un'autentica cornucopia, una sorta di Re Mida, per chiunque gli si avvicini: Fabrizio De André. E già questo - questa scelta - non può che recarsi appresso ...
[em]: [em] live
![Read "[em] live" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay](https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/coverart/2010/[em]_[em]live_bl.jpg)
by Bruce Lindsay
[em] live is the fourth album from [em], the German trio also known as Wollny/Kruse/Schaefer. The album was recorded at the 2010 JazzBaltica festival in Salzau--the complete concert except, as the sleeve notes declare somewhat sternly, “for listening pleasure the applause has been shortened." It's a combination of new compositions and four tunes taken from [em]'s ...
Vijay Iyer: Solo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il suo è un tocco pesante e deciso. Immagina gli 88 tasti del pianoforte come gli attrezzi di una palestra. Dopo i fasti dell'acclamato Historicity, Vijay Iyer doveva andare da solo. E per farlo non poteva che mettere a fuoco la sua forza, la sua dirompenza, il tocco cristallino e rotondo: doveva irrobustire le tessiture con ...
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by Bruce Lindsay
Same Girl is Youn Sun Nah's seventh album, and finds the young Korean singer continuing to explore an eclectic mix of original songs and left-field covers in the company of the stylish trio that joined her on Voyage (ACT, 2009). By turns funny, inventive, dramatic, melodramatic and reflective Same Girl confirms Nah's abilities as a vocalist ...
Bugge Wesseltoft: It's Snowing on My Piano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Meglio conosciuto come fondatore della Jazzland e per aver coniato il termine NuJazz, Bugge Wesseltoft, con le 12 canzoni di Natale di It's Snowing on My Piano, album pubblicato nel 1997, destò una grande sensazione. Grazie all'originalità del suo tocco al pianoforte è riuscito a rimuovere l'alone di patinato e kitsch che spesso accompagna i lavori ...
Various: Magic Moments 4: Jazz Is Cool
by Bruce Lindsay
Germany's ACT Music is an innovative and adventurous label with an international roster that includes some genuinely cutting-edge musicians including Vijay Iyer and Dan Berglund's Tonbruket. Magic Moments 4: Jazz Is Cool is the fourth in ACT's sampler series and a great place to begin exploring the music it has to offer. The ...
