Frank Woeste: Pocket Rhapsody

Gregoira Korniluk | Ben Monder | Frank Woeste | Youn Sun Nah | Sarah Nemtanu | Ibrahim Maalouf | Justin Brown

Born in Germany in 1976, Woeste has long been celebrated in France where he’s lived since 1997 with his French...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Echoes Of Swing: Dancing

Chris Hopkins | Colin T. Dawson | Oliver Mewes | Bernd Lhotzky

This is the third album, and the second on ACT, by this Europe- based group of mainstreamers to come my...

Reviewed in issue February/2016

Various: Magic Moments 8 Sing Hallelujah

A comp selected from the recent Munich label catalogue on vocalists performing spirituals, blues and soulful tunes performed by artists...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Scott DuBols: Winter Light

The American guitarist's debut for ACT is a programmatic suite evoking the winter as it turns from dawn to dusk,...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Philip Catherine: The String Project – Live in Brussels

Philippe Aerts | Philip Catherine | Nicola Andrioli | Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie | Hans Van Oosterhout | Nicolas Fiszman

‘With this string project, I didn't feel that I wanted to prove anything to anyone, so I consciously avoided playing...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud with In the Country: Trail Of Souls

Roger Arntzen | Morten Qvenild | Knut Reiersrud | Solveig Slettahjell | Pål Hausken

This album is a spin-off from the highly successful concert promoted by ACT's Siggi Loch in 2014 at the Berlin...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Album Interview: Michael Wollny: Nachtfahrten

Christian Weber | Eric Schaefer | Michael Wollny

With the release of Weltentraum last year it seemed clear that Michael Wollny, voted European Jazz Musician of the Year...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Torsten Goods: Thank You Baby!

Wolfgang Haffner | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Roberto Di Gioia | Torsten Goods

Born to a German blues-musician father and Irish mother, 30-something Torsten Goods is still restlessly seeking out new directions for...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic: Timeless Suite

Cello and accordion might be a rare instrumental combination in any music but the versatile, effervescent duo of Austrian Klaus...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Various Artists: The ACT Man: Siggi Loch – A Life in the Spirit of Jazz

Sidney Bechet | Michael Wollny

Siggi Loch, also known as The ACT Man, record producer and founder of ACT records, was 75 on 6 August...

Reviewed in issue October/2015