Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II: Norwegian Woods

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

Producer Siggi Loch's imaginatively curated Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic series have been a deserved and recurring success, attested by...

Reviewed in issue August/2014

Christian Muthspiel 4: Seaven Teares

Franck Tortiller | Matthieu Michel | Steve Swallow | Christian Muthspiel

This album from Austrian multi-instrumentalist Christian Muthspiel is a ‘Tribute to John Dowland’, the great English Renaissance composer and contemporary...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Christof Lauer & NDR Bigband play Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur

Klaus Heidenreich | Thorsten Benkenstein | Thomas Gramatzki | Ingo Lahme | Don Gottshall | Ingolf Burkhardt | Fiete Fisch | Ingmar Heller | Peter Bolte | Sebastian Gille

This one does exactly what it says on the cover. Soprano and tenor-saxophonist Lauer, something of a virtuoso, solos on...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Pierrick Pédron: Kubic's Cure

The French saxophonist and his rocking trio interpret the songs of Robert Smith's goth pop rockers but come on like...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Peirani & Parisien: Belle Époque

Emile Parisien | Vincent Peirani

Released as part of ACT's new ‘Duo Art’ series, this collaboration between two of France's top young jazzers is an...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Baldych & Herman: The New Tradition

Adam Baldych | Yaron Herman

If the Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock duo, reviewed elsewhere in this magazine (page 43), appear as exemplary exponents of...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Ulf Wakenius: Momento Magico

Ulf Wakenius

If Erik Satie had thought of it, he'd no doubt have wanted to recast his minimalistic piano piece ‘Gnossienne’ as...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Album Interview: Marius Neset & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Lion

Ingrid Neset | Eivind Lønning | Daniel Herskedal | Hanna Paulsberg | Erik Johannesen | Gard Nilssen | Peter Fuglsang | Jovan Pavlovic | Eirik Hegdal | Marius Neset

The 29-year-old Norwegian saxophonist/composer Marius Neset has been heralded as a new breed of big tenor players in a lineage...

Reviewed in issue May/2014

Joachim Kühn: 70th Birthday Edition: Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark/Europeana

Klaus Doldinger | Daniel Humair | Django Bates | Mike Gibbs | Richard Galliano | Christof Lauer | Albert Mangelsdorff | Joachim Kühn | Markus Stockhausen | Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark

Now 70, Kühn's achievements are rightly being celebrated by the ACT label, and although it is doubtful that they will...

Reviewed in issue May/2014

Various Artists: Duo Art – Creating Magic

Jacob Karlzon | George Riedel | Henning Kraggerud | Jan Johansson | George Mraz | Michel Wollny | Bugge Wesseltoft | Marius Neset | Sidsel Endresen | Viktoria Tolstoy

There are some memorable moments on this double CD anthology of duo collaborations past and present from the ACT label....

Reviewed in issue April/2014