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Klaus Paier and Asja Valcic: Silk Road
Unlike their earlier collaboration, 2009's Deux, Croatian cellist Asja Valcic has contributed compositionally to add to the Austrian Paier's tunes...
Reviewed in issue April/2013
In the Country: Sunset, Sunrise
Roger Arntzen | Morten Qvenild | Pal Hausken
Although this is In the Country's fifth album, it marks their debut on the ACT label having previously recorded for...
Reviewed in issue April/2013
Oregon: Family Tree
Linley Marthe | Grégory Privat | Tilo Bertholo
Forty-odd years on from their inception, Oregon still sound remarkably fresh on this latest outing, one of the strongest sets...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Céline Bonacina Trio: Open Heart
This a better rounded album than Bonacina's debut Way of Life, simply because the combination of saxophone, bass and drums...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Gamak
David Fiuczynski | Dan Weiss | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Francois Moutin
Contrast is one of the most effective creative strategies in any art and this engrossing set exploits it to the...
Reviewed in issue February/2013
Eric Schaefer: Who Is Afraid of Richard W.?
Eric Schaefer | Volker Meitz | Tom Arthurs | John Eckhardt
A key component of Michael Wollny's [em] trio, nominated by Kulturspiegel as “Germany's most creative jazz trio,” drummer/composer Eric Schaefer...
Reviewed in issue February/2013
Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Don't Explain: Live in Concert
Context is all, and from his dynamic collaboration with Eva Kruse and Eric Schaefer in the trio [em] to his...
Reviewed in issue February/2013
Dieter Ilg: Parsifal
Dieter Ilg | Patrice Héral | Rainer Böhm
Richard Wagner doesn't crop up too often in the repertoires of jazz trios. His big, bombastic and extremely Germanic operas...
Reviewed in issue February/2013
Album Interview: Walter Norris & Leszek Mozdzer: The Last Set: Live at the A-Trane
Leszek Mozdzer | Walter Norris
When Walter Norris died last year aged 79 the few obituaries that ran referred to the fact that the US...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Iiro Rantala: My History of Jazz
Morten Lund | Lars Danielsson | Iiro Rantala | Adam Baldych
When the Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala debuted on ACT, Lost Heroes promptly won him Germany's two most important and prestigious...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2012/2013
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