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Ulf Wakenius: Signature Edition 2
by John Kelman
For the second in its Signature Edition compilations, dedicated to--and selected by--its vanguard artists, ACT profiles a guitarist who only became an exclusive artist in 2005, with the release of his homage to pianist Keith Jarrett--Notes From the Heart--but whose career truly demands retrospection and reevaluation. Unlike Signature Edition 1's fusion guitarist Nguyên Lê, who has ...
Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene
by R.J. DeLuke
With a half-century in the music recording business, Siegfried Loch, known to friends and associates as Siggi, has had a huge impact on the jazz music scene in Europe. Jazz isn't the only thing he's been involved in as a producer over all those years, but having his own jazz label--ACT Music, based in Munich, Germany--was ...
2010 Portland Jazz Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
The Portland Jazz Festival is now in its 7th year under the artistic direction of Bill Royston. And at this point, it's pretty safe to say that this is a festival that has earned it's due as one of the most creative festivals that has not only survived the current economic downturn but has done so ...
John Watson's "The Power of Jazz" Photography Book Now Available
Jazz legends and rising stars are featured in a new book The Power Of Jazz, by UK-based professional photographer and writer John Watson. The book has more than 140 color and black and white photographs of artists including Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Esbjorn Svensson, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Dame Cleo Laine, Jane ...
Royal Hartigan: Blood Drum Spirit
by Karl Ackermann
Good things sometimes fly under the radar; sometimes they are great things. This has never been more the case than with Royal Hartigans's Blood Drum Spirit, a jazz masterpiece that has languished in obscurity since its 1993 recording to its eventual 2004 release. It remains largely unrecognized six years later. Jazz, especially in the US, can ...
Dan Berglund: Back from the Dark
by AAJ Staff
Bassist Dan Berglund became known as one-third of Swedish jazz superstar group e.s.t. (Esbjörn Svensson Trio), with CDs including From Gagarin's Point of View (ACT, 1999), Good Morning Susie Soho (ACT, 2000), Strange Place for Snow (ACT, 2002) and e.s.t.. Live in Hamburg (ACT, 2007)--one of The Times UK's top albums of the last decade--culminating in ...
Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket
by John Kelman
After 15 years as the bassist for Swedish supergroup e.s.t.--and, at least to the public eye, to the exclusion of all else--the big question about Dan Berglund was, after the group tragically dissolved following the untimely death of pianist Esbjörn Svensson, what next? Well, considering Berglund's roots were always more in rock than jazz--his signature delayed ...
John Turville Trio: Midas
by Chris May
If the carefully composed, monochrome cover art of the John Turville Trio's debut album suggests the ECM label's house style, the coincidence is appropriate. Midas is high-end piano trio jazz, beautifully recorded (in Italy). It consists in the main of tunes written by pianist Turville, is shot through with muscular lyricism, and resonates with the work ...
Retrospective: The Very Best of e.s.t.
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: From Gagarin's Point of View; Dodge the Dodo; Good Morning Susie Soho; Spam-Boo-Limbo;
Behind The Yashmak; Viaticum; Seven Days Of Falling; Strange Place For Snow; Believe, Beleft,
Below; A Picture Of Doris Traveling With Boris; Goldwrap; Delores In A Shoestand; Leucocyte.
John Law: Deeper into the Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...
