Nils Landgren Funk Unit with Ray Parker Jr: Unbreakable

Ray Parker Jr. | Petter Bergander | Tim Hagans | Nils Landgren | Randy Brecker | Magnum Coltrane Price | Andy Pfeiler | Jonas Wall | Robert Ikiz

If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Landgren's been mining the funk lode for, what, 25 years, so no surprise...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Richie Beirach & Gregor Huebner: Live at Birdland New York

Billy Hart | Randy Brecker | Richie Beirach | Gregor Huebner | George Mraz

Opener, ‘You Don't Know What Love Is’, is taken, rather disconcertingly, at a cracking pace with something of a latin...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Parisien-Peirani-Schaerer-Wollny: Out of Land

Emile Parisien | Vincent Peirani | Andreas Schaerer | Michael Wollny

Though this was the first performance by this intriguing line-up in Bern in 2016, it is already being hailed a...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

ACT Family Band: The Jubilee Concert

Nils Landgren | Vincent Peirani | Eric Schaefer | Joachim Kuhn | Émile Parisien | Andreas Schaerer | Dieter Iig | Lars Danielsson | Iro Rantala | Nguyên Lê

Germany's ACT Record's 25th birthday concert in early April this year in Berlin was a vibrant live summation of the...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Lars Danielsson: Libretto III

Magnus Öström | Grégory Privat | Hussam Aliwat | John Parricelli | Björn Bohlin | Arve Henriksen | Lars Danielsson

One of the unfolding joys of the ACT label in recent times is the unfailingly poised and eloquent chamber jazz...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Youn Sun Nah: She Moves On

Dan Rieser | Jamie Saft | Brad Jones | Marc Ribot | Youn Sun Nah

This latest studio album from the South Korean vocalist Youn Sun Nah is marked by a new band – it...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Various Artists: Monteverdi In The Spirit of Jazz

The 450th anniversary of the renaissance composer is celebrated by the award-winning German label and benefits from almost half the...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Eric Schaefer: Kyoto Mon Amour

Kazutoki Umezu | Eric Schaefer | Naoko Kikuchi | John Eckhardt

The Berlin-based Eric Schaefer will be familiar to UK jazz listeners as the drummer with Michael Wollny's Trio, but can...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Ulf & Eric Wakenius: Father and Son

Eric Wakenius | Ulf Wakenius

Did you know that Cat Stevens was Swedish? Actually, you can't have ‘known’ that, either before or now, because it's...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Natalia Mateo: De Profundis

A Björk/Joni Mitchell influenced Polish Berlin-based singer sticks mainly to her mother tongue on some haunting, understated originals and there's...

Reviewed in issue May/2017