Echoes of Swing: Blue Pepper

Chris Hopkins | Oliver Mewes | Colin Dawson | Bernd Lhotzky

This neat little combo has been on the go since 1997 and specialises in recasting familiar numbers in inventive ways...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Max von Mosch Orchestra: Berlin Kaboom!

Klaus Heidenreich | Jonas Burgwinkel | Gregor Bürger | Matthias Schriefl | Christian Weidner | Robert Landfermann | Christian Elsässer | Andy Haderer | Max von Mosch | Adrian Mears

Until now best known for his max.bab quartet, composer and saxophonist Max von Mosch now brings us his first album...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Geir Lysne: New Circle

Eckhard Baur | Olav Torget | Reidar Skår | Geir Lysne | Helge Sunde | Nguyên Lê | Knut Aalefjaer | Gjermund Silset

Lysne has shown himself to be an impressive orchestral conceptualist with a series of big band recordings for ACT that...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon: A Moment Of Now

Jacob Karlzon | Viktoria Tolstoy

Swedish vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy celebrates 10 years as an ACT artist with this superb new duet album with pianist Jacob...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Album Interview: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Nubium Swimtrip

Andreas Weliin | Johan Lindström | Martin Hederos | Dan Berglund

For their third album on the award-winning ACT label, Tonbruket, the Swedish collective formed by ex-EST bassist Dan Berglund, take...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Running

A brotherly trumpeter and pianist combo lead an ensemble from the young jazz scene in Cologne and stay close to...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Michael Wollny: Wunderkammer XXL

Tamar Halperin | Jim McNeely | hr-Big Band | Michael Wollny

Wunderkammer XXL is a Collector’s Edition two-CD set that reissues Wollny’s 2009 Wunderkammer, a duet collaboration with Tamar Halperin, together...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Joachim Kühn Trio: Voodoo Sense

Koussi Bessan Joseph | Archie Shepp | Majid Bekkas | Ramon Lopez | Joachim Kühn

Now 69, Joachim Kühn has held the mantle of Germany’s pre-eminent jazz pianist for several decades now with good reason....

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Magnus Öström: Searching for Jupiter

Magnus Öström | Andreas Hourdakis | Thobias Gabrielson | Daniel Karlsson

When Magnus Öström’s debut Thread of Life emerged in 2011 it was perhaps inevitable it would be listened to in...

Reviewed in issue September/2013

Three Fall: Realise!

Til Schneider | Lutz Streun | Sebastian Winne

Three Fall, formed in 2008, release their second CD on ACT’s Young German Jazz series that was started by the...

Reviewed in issue September/2013