Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hông Quang: Hà Nôi Duo

Stéphane Edouard | Paolo Fresu | Alex Tran | Mieko Miyazaki | Prabhu Edouard | Ngô Hông Quang | Nguyên Lê

I had the pleasure of interviewing Lê before a live audience at a jazz festival in Germany a few years...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr: Landed in Brooklyn

Donny McCaslin | Nate Wood | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Roman Wasserfuhr | Julian Wasserfuhr

Initially recording for ACT's ‘Young German Jazz’ series in 2006 with Remember Chet, this sibling union has gone on to...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Viktoria Tolstoy: Meet Me At The Movies

Nils Landgren | Rasmus Kihlberg | Mattias Svensson | Krister Jonsson | Iiro Rantala | Viktoria Tolstoy

A massive film fan all her life, Meet Me At The Movies sees Swedish vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy exploring some of...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Various Artists: Magic Moments 9: In the Spirit of Jazz

Another selection from the prominent Munich jazz label ACT's recent catalogue including tracks by Jan Lundgren, Paulo Fresu and Joachim...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Grégory Privat Trio: Family Tree

Linley Marthe | Grégory Privat | Tilo Bertholo

Privat says something on this, his ACT debut, and by the end, you're left wanting more. Potentially, he appears as...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Black String: Mask Dance

Min Wang Hwang | Aram Lee | Yoon Jeong Heo | Jean Oh

Tradition in Korean music extends further back in time than any equivalent continuous practices in Western music. As such, the...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Michael Wollny & Vincent Peirani: Tandem

Vincent Peirani | Michael Wollny

Vincent Peirani is one of several younger musicians who have brought a new vibrancy to the current Parisian jazz scene.Astonishingly...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Emile Parisien Quintet: Sfumato

Emile Parisien | Simon Tailleu | Joachim Kuhn | Mario Costa | Manu Codjia

During the last decade the French jazz scene has become extremely vibrant, especially in Paris. French jazz musicians have their...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Gerardo Núñez & Ulf Wakenius: Logos

Cancun | Gerardo Núñez | Carmen Cortés | Isabel Núñez | Ulf Wakenius | Cepillo

Back in 1992, the very first release from Siggi Loch's ACT label was Jazzpañ a, which brought the foremost practitioners...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Jukka Perko Avara: Invisible Man

Jukka Perko | Teemu Viinikainen | Jarmo Saari

Back in 2004, guitarist Teemu Viinikainen was making a name for himself with the U-Street All Stars, a fine hard...

Reviewed in issue July/2016