Ida Sand: The Gospel Truth

Mattias Thorell | Thobias Gabrielsson | Andres Hedlund | Ida Sand

As an eight-year-old girl growing up in Sweden, Ida Sand heard the iconic gospel vocalist Mahalia Jackson singing ‘How Great...

Reviewed in issue November/2011

Viktoria Tolstoy: Letters to Herbie

Jacob Karlzon | Nils Landgren | Rasmus Kihlberg | Magnus Lindgren | Mattias Svensson | Krister Jonsson | Viktoria Tolstoy

While Viktoria Tolstoy’s previous release, My Russian Soul, paid homage to the music of Tchaikovsky and her Russian heritage, Letters...

Reviewed in issue November/2011

Jan Johansson: In Hamburg

Georg Riedel | Jan Johansson | Rune Gustafsson

In the 1960s Jan Johansson recorded a series of jazz versions of Swedish folkloric material that were subsequently released as...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Pierrick Pedron: Cheerleaders

This Brittany-based saxophonist’s arrangements for brass, choir and his quintet have a raw quality about them and are an odd...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Nils Landgren: The Moon, The Stars And You

Steve Gadd | Michael Wollny | Christian Spering | Jonas Ostholm | Andre Ferrari | Viktoria Tolstoy | the NDR Big Band | Kiko Freitas | Caecilie Norby | Richard Galliano

Landgren loves a concept. If he’s not funking up Abba, his mellifluous trombone is gracing, as with this charming, guileless...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Lars Danielsson: Signature Editions 3

Eivind Aarset | Marilyn Mazur | Lars Danielsson | DR Danish Radio Concert Orchestra | Bugge Wesseltoft | Carsten Dahl | Copenhagen Concert Orchestra | Ulf Wakenius | Leszek Mozdzer | Bobo Stensen

Lars Danielsson is an exceptional bass player, even in a part of the world that seems to specialise in exceptional...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Knut Rössler and Johannes Vogt: Octagon: Between the Times

Günter Lenz | Knut Rössler | Ute Kreidler | Johannes Vogt | Werner Goos

No one could accuse ACT boss Siggi Loch of going for the easy sell. Knut Rössler and Johannes Vogt's previous...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Vladyslav Sendecki: Solo Piano at Schloss Elmau

Vladyslav Sendecki

Born in Poland in 1955, Sendecki received a thorough classical training in the Frederic Chopin conservatory and the Krakow music...

Reviewed in issue June/2010