Torsten Goods: Love Comes To Town

Wolfgang Haffner | Jan Miserre | Christian von Kaphengst | Torsten Goods

This third release on ACT sees a welcome return to the recording studio for guitar ace and singer Torsten Goods....

Reviewed in issue August/2013

Arne Jansen: The Sleep of Reason-Ode to Goya

Arne Jansen | Nils W໬ker | Eric Schaefer | Stephan Braun | Andreas Edelmann | Friedrich Paravicini

The art of painter Francisco Goya – the Iberian master who dared to offer up ironic portraits of the Spanish...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Caecilie Norby: Silent Ways

Robert Mehmet Ikiz | Leszek Mozdzer | Cæcilie Norby | Marius Neset | Lars Danielsson | Nguyên Lê

This is Norby’s second ACT album, and between them she has neatly encapsulated her formative influences. Daughter of a classical...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Teamwork

Joe Sample | Nils Landgren | Till Brönner | Magnus Lindgren | Magnum Coltrane Price | Andy Pfeiler | Jonas Wall | Robert Ikiz | Sebastian Studnitzky | Wilton Felder

After the melancholy delicacies of his excellent The Moon, The Stars and You project, Landgren returns to his beloved funk...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Vincent Peirani: Thrill Box

Emile Parisien | Vincent Peirani | Michel Benita | Michel Portal | Michael Wollny

Thrill Box refers to Peirani's instrument, the accordion, which – remarkably – he seems able to wrest a astonishing range...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Mo' Blow: Gimme the Boots

With Nils Landgren on the studio desk, this fresh-faced German quartet's debut is a lightweight brand of the producer's sort...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Iiro Rantala, Leszek Mozdzer, Michael Wollny: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic

Leszek Mozdzer | Iiro Rantala | Michael Wollny

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic represents a new venture for Siggi Loch, the owner of ACT records, and sees him in...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Matthias Schriefl: Six, Alps & Jazz

Martin Seiler | Gregor Bürger | Priska Schrielf | Matthias Schriefl | Bodek Janke | Federico Aluffi | Niels Klein | Florian Trübsbach | Johannes Bär | Peter Heidl

Young German jazz trumpeter Matthias Schriefl came to fore in his native land fronting an outfit called Shreefpunk. The aforementioned...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

radio.string.quartet.vienna: Posting Joe: Celebrating Weather Report – Live

Igmar Jenner | Cynthia Liao | Asja Valcic | Bernie Mallinger

The second biggest challenge for anyone taking on the Zawinul/Weather Report canon is what to choose from it. Here, the...

Reviewed in issue May/2013

Christian Muthspie: Seaven Teares (A Tribute to John Dowland)

Franck Tortiller | Matthieu Michel | Steve Swallow | Christian Muthspiel

In this reworking of the compositions of 16th century English Renaissance composer John Dowland, the 50-year-old Austrian trombonist Christian Muthspiel...

Reviewed in issue May/2013