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Article: Interview

Ulf Wakenius: Confessions of A Vagabond

by Ian Patterson
June 24, 2014

Happenstance may play a role in turning dreams into reality, but anyone who's ever realized a burning ambition will appreciate just how much hard work has paved the way. Two phone calls out of the blue almost twenty years apart opened doors to Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, that in the first case he could only have ...

Article: Album Review

Ulf Wakenius: Momento Magico

Read "Momento Magico" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 3, 2014

If guitarist Ulf Wakenius' Vagabond (ACT Music, 2012) was a highlight in a discography that stretches back thirty years to Urban Experience (Dragon, 1984) then Momento Magico--which possibly raises the bar still further-- serves as an anthology of his influences both old and new. Wakenius has toured the world extensively for decades, so it's perhaps unsurprising ...

News: Festival

Jarasum International Jazz Festival Celebrates 10 Years!

October 2, 2013

The Jarasum International Jazz Festival, one of the world’s best attended jazz festivals celebrates its 10th edition from October 3rd to 6th in Gapeyong, South Korea. JIJF has come a long way since the very first edition in 2004. That year 30,000 people turned up to watched 15 local bands and 12 international acts that included ...

News: Festival

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival Attracts Top Names

September 24, 2013

The Hong Kong International Jazz Festival is back with a host of great jazz from the 29th September to the 2nd October. Now in its sixth edition, this most iconic of Asian cities provides a spectacular backdrop to a truly exciting series of concerts featuring top international names including the Asaf Sirkis Trio, the Lars Danielsson ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jan Bang: Narrative From The Subtropics

by Henning Bolte
September 6, 2013

For Norwegian electronic musician Jan Bang, the studio is no longer a perfectly isolated space to assemble and produce fictitious beautiful sounds--a boundary he has long since transcended. He not only brought studio equipment and techniques to the performing stage but he also started using them as tools in live improvisation. Together with fellow musician and ...

Article: Album Review

Jan Bang: Narrative from the Subtropics

Read "Narrative from the Subtropics" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 6, 2013

There are times when it seems everything that has come before suddenly coalesces, reaches critical mass and engenders near-exponentially increased success and opportunity. For Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, their Punkt live remix festival has evolved, since its early inception in Kristiansand, Norway, into a musical aesthetic brought to other festivals like Mannheim's Enjoy Jazz and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lars Danielsson

September 5, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Lars Danielsson's birthday today! Bassist Lars Danielsson is reknown and admired in the International Jazz world for his lyrical but groovy playing. Not least his capability to improve the appearance of the melody has brought him around the world in a number of various musical constellations. Lars Danielsson was born in ...

Article: Album Review

Youn Sun Nah: Lento

by Ian Patterson
May 13, 2013

Youn Sun Nah's rejection of a multi-record deal with French outfit Label Bleu to preserve her artistic freedom indicated that a change was in the air, following five recordings with her French 5tet band. Signed up by German label ACT, Nah released two critically and commercially successful albums, Voyage (2009) and Same Girl (2010), with the ...

Article: Album Review

Celine Bonacina Trio: Open Heart

Read "Open Heart" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 6, 2013

The baritone saxophone is right at the heart of Céline Bonacina's Open Heart, her second album for ACT Music. This particular sax is too often consigned to the role of “rhythm saxophone," operating at the lower reaches of its register, with only a handful of players making full use of its potential. Bonacina, a French saxophonist ...

Album

Liberetto

By Lars Danielsson

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Yerevan; Liberetto; Day One; Orange Market; Hymnen; Svensk Låt; Hov arek sarer djan; Party on the Planet; Tystnaden; Ahdes Theme; Driven to Daylight; Blå Ängar.