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Emma Rawicz: Chroma

by Tom Spargo
September 1, 2023

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 ...

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Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty

Read "Stormy Beauty" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2023

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 ...

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Laila Biali: Your Requests

Read "Your Requests" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 16, 2023

While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential. Instead, it's the musicians who make it a point to communicate who tend to forge the strongest bonds with those on the receiving end. Laila ...

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Ghosts

By Michael Wollny

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Loves You Porgy; Willow's Song; Hauntology; Hand of God; Ghosts; Monsters Never Breathe; Erl; In a Sentimental Mood; She Moved Through the Fair; Beat the Drum Slowly.

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HOME.S.

By Esbjorn Svensson

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Alpha; Beta; Gamma; Delta; Epsilon; Zeta; Eta; Theta; Iota.

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Jokers

By Vincent Peirani

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: This Is The New Shit; Salsa Fake; River; Les Larmes de Syr; Circus of Light; Copy of A; Twilight; Heimdall; Ninna Nanna.

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The Gallery Concerts I

By Johanna Summer

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Return Of Mohammed; Desperation And Hope ; Someday My Prince Will Come; Always And Forever ; Endlose Erms; Si Tu Vois Ma Mère; Ominous Sky.

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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles

By Theo Croker

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pinocchio/Milestones; Footprints; My Funny Valentine; So What; Miles Ahead Suite; Sketches of Spain Suite; Porgy and Bess Suite; All Blues.

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Esbjörn Svensson: HOME.S.

Read "HOME.S." reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 30, 2022

Akin to when people first sat in elegant staterooms listening to Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mahler, or Erik Satie seek the muse, HOME.S stands as the first solo performance by the late Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson and will quite possibly be considered the grandest moment of any other forthcoming posthumous releases. Recorded mere weeks before the ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...