Lars Danielsson is an exceptional bass player, even in a part of the world that seems to specialise in exceptional bass players – from his homeland of Sweden: Palle Danielsson, Anders Jormin; from Norway: Arild Andersen, Ingrebrigt Haker Flaten; from Denmark: Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and that's just for starters. On this third album from ACT's new signature series, whereby selected ACT artists get to choose the best of their work on the label (and other labels prepared to license the music to ACT) which is presented in a sumptuous 2 CD presentation set. Here, Danielsson anthologises 24 performances over a period of 20 years, from his 1991 quartet with Dave Liebman (sax), Bobo Stenson (p) and Jon Christensen (d) on Folk Song, to the most recent Afterglow with vocalist Caecille Norby from 2009. In between there are collaborations with Copenhagen Concert Orchestra and the DR Danish Radio Concert Orchestra and acoustic/ electric outings with the likes of Jan Bang (sampling and live sampling), Bugge Wesseltoft (key) and Eivind Aarset (g). Most heavily represented with seven selections are his collaborations with the hugely gifted Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer from albums such as Between Us and the Light, Pasodoble and The Time. Here perhaps is some of the most enduring and engrossing work on another fine artist anthology from ACT.