Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum III

Jan Lundgren | Paolo Fresu | Richard Galliano

Mare Nostrum (literally, ‘Our Sea’) is the latin for the Mediterranean. It’s also the name of a powerful European supercomputer...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Ida Sand with Stockholm Underground: My Soul Kitchen

Singer Ida Sand hires an early version of Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit known as the Stockholm Underground to pump out...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Rainer Böhm: Hýdⴶ

Numeral XII in Siggi Loch's Munich based label's Piano Works series presents a Cologne-based young buck a member of Dieter...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

NES: Ahlam

Hailing from Valencia, NES is an unusual bare-boned vocal-cello-percussion trio headed by French-Algerian singer Nesrine Belmokh who boasts a commanding...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Vincent Peirani: Living Being II – Night Walker

Yoann Serra | Valentin Liechti | Vincent Peirani | Tony Paeleman | Émile Parisien | Julien Herné

There is something of an X-factor about Vincent Peirani's playing. He has such an individual conception that he manages to...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Lars Danielsson & Paolo Fresu: Summerwind

Paolo Fresu | Lars Danielsson

A beautiful melody eludes precise definition and so presents a knotty problem for jazz education; how do you teach a...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Album Interview: Émile Parisien: Sfumato Live in Marciac

Wynton Marsalis | Vincent Peirani | Simon Tailleu | Émile Parisien | Mário Costa | Michel Portal | Joachim Kühn | Manu Codjia

If jazz is the art of the improviser, then this album embodies it. With its exceptional level of creativity, intuitive...

Reviewed in issue September/2018

David Helbock's Random Control: Tour d'Horizon

David Helbock | Johannes Bär | Andreas Broger

Helbock's 2016 debut on ACT with Into the Mystic with bass and drums accompaniment, though a little overlong and so...

Reviewed in issue August/2018

Tonbruket: Live Salvation

Andreas Werliin | Johan Lindstrom | Martin Hederos | Dan Berglund

The Swedish bassist Dan Berglund's Tonbruket's new ‘live’ album is recorded at Stuttgart's Bix Jazzclub and has a repertoire selected...

Reviewed in issue July/2018

Echoes of Swing: Travelin'

Part of an ongoing series in which Munich's ACT label focuses on ‘classic’ period jazz, the chamber-like quartet here brings...

Reviewed in issue April/2018