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Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1
by Chris May
Nguyên Lê Signature Edition 1 ACT Music 2010 It might seem perverse to begin a review of a Nguyên Lê release with the observation that there is “too much fusion" on it, as, increasingly since the late 1990s, it is to the fusion mast that the ...
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 ...
Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1
by John Kelman
Few musicians embody the word “fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, for the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition--the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere--with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the ...
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 ...
Nguyen Le: Saiyuki
by John Kelman
He's not the first guitarist to explore the nexus of east and west--the legendary John McLaughlin is, at the very least, the first well-known six-stringer to do so--but, over the past couple decades, Nguyên Lê has been finding his own junctures. McLaughlin may have dug deep into the place where western harmony and Indian linearity meet, ...
Joel Harrison: Urban Myths
by John Kelman
With a string of outstanding records that began with his personal look at the music of George Harrison on Harrison on Harrison (HighNote, 2005), continued with an all-original pairing with guitarist Nguyên Lê on Harbor (HighNote, 2007) and culminated with the ambitious The Wheel (Innova, 2008), guitarist Joel Harrison has, over the last few years, been ...
Dream Flight
By Nguyen Le
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Dream Flight; Rotha & Priska; Jive Five; Song for Jaco; Twelve; Plan 9; Kokopanitsa; Romanichel; Montreal; Hanging Out on the Roofs; A Demain.
Fragile Beauty
By Nguyen Le
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Drifting on the Water; Weaving & Awaiting; Faithfulness; Plantation Song; The Five Calls of the Night; Fragile
Beauty; Rowing the Sampan; The Pavilion of Crystallized Azure; At Dusk, from the West Balcony; Go Cong Blues;
The Swallows' Bridge; Tales of the Mountain.
E_L_B (Peter Erskine_Nguyen Le_Michel Benita): Dream Flight
by John Kelman
Active leaders all--and busy sidemen as well--drummer Peter Erskine, guitarist Nguyên Lê and bassist Michel Benita worked together in other contexts, prior to forming the collective trio E_L_B and releasing their self-titled 2000 ACT debut. Busy schedules prevented a follow-up for seven years; but following a successful tour where the trio became a quartet with the ...
