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Time in Jazz 2018
by Libero Farnè
Time in Jazz Varie sedi Berchidda e altri comuni 08-16.08.2018 Ogni festival vive di costanti e variabili. Le prime rappresentano le scelte di fondo maturate nel tempo, le certezze organizzative ed estetiche che determinano, anche agli occhi degli spettatori, la riconoscibile identità della manifestazione. Le seconde esprimono l'esigenza di rinnovamento, sperimentando ...
Nils Landgren: Unbreakable
by Chris M. Slawecki
The very first album released by German progressive label ACT Records (in 1994) was by the Funk Unit led by trombone master Nils Landgren, recorded Live in Stockholm that summer with Maceo Parker as special guest. Other Funk Unit releases for ACT Records include Paint It Blue (1996), the trombonist's tribute to composer/saxophonist Cannonball Adderley with ...
Sonic Styles of the Seventies
by Chris M. Slawecki
Hugo Fattoruso Hugo Fattoruso Y Bario Opa Far Out Recordings 2018 Once upon a time in Uruguay, teenage brothers Osvaldo and Hugo Fattoruso stepped out of their musical family trio to play guitar and bass for popular Latin American jazz (swing) and rock 'n' roll ensembles venturing in ...
Unbreakable
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Unbreakable; Just a Kiss Away; Get Down on the Funk; Friday Night; Stars in Your Eyes; Rockin' After Midnight; Soulchild;
Old School; NLFU Funk; Bow Down.
Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Landed in Brooklyn
by Karl Ackermann
German brothers Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr have been highly regarded talents in their home country since they were teenagers. Signed to the ACT label in 2006, their debut album that year, Remember Chet (for Chet Baker), showed remarkable maturity. By their sophomore outing Upgraded in Gothenburg (2009), the brothers had sufficient brand equity to draw bassist ...
Some Other Time
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Overture: America; Some Other Time; Cool; Maria; Somewhere; The Story
Of My Life; One Hand, One Heart; Something's Coming; Lonely Town; A
Quiet Girl; Lucky To Be Me; A Simple Song.
Manu Katché: Unstatic
by Karl Ackermann
Drummer Manu Katché's career has been a long, circuitous one that began in rock, working for an extended period with Peter Gabriel, Sting and Joni Mitchell. In the cases of Sting and Mitchell, there was a jazz sensibility present in much of their work. Simultaneously, Katché's work on the ECM label was taking shape as he ...
Manu Katche: Unstatic
by Dan McClenaghan
French drummer Manu Katche always seemed something of an odd man at ECM Records on his four solo discs--warm, groove-centric, gregarious sets competing with the Nordic cool of Tord Gustavsen, or the thoughtful melancholy of trumpeter Tomas Stanko and pianist Marcin Wasilewski. And--like few artists in the ECM stable--he crossed successfully into the rock world via ...
WDR Jazz Fest 2016
by Phillip Woolever
WDR Jazz Fest Theatre Munster Münster, Germany January 30, 2016 The multi-stationed broadcaster WDR (West German Radio) is known throughout most of greater Germany as a powerhouse of jazz programming and concert promotion. That lofty reputation was upheld and then some with Jazz Fest 2016, which included a Saturday night with ...
Oddjob: Folk
by Karl Ackermann
Having been commissioned by Swedish Radio in the early 1960s, Jazz på Svenska (Jazz in Swedish) (Megafon Records, 1964) became--and remains--the best-selling jazz recording in that country. The spare interpretations of early Swedish folk tunes was rendered by pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Georg Riedel. More than fifty years later, that country's quintet, Oddjob, mines those ...
