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"I love the music of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan," says Icelandic guitarist Mikael Máni. Those words bring us to the core of what "Guitar Poetry", Máni's debut release on ACT, is…

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There are very few young jazz musicians who master their instrument with such complete and daunting virtuosity as Jakob Manz, and yet his playing always sounds so…

Hymns By Janne Mark

1-LP Holland

Jazz

“Pilgrim" is an engaging and thoughtful album with plenty in it to discover. It is a haven of peace and quiet in a world beset with restlessness and uncertainty. It is also the portrait…

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“A band which is going to take off like a rocket” (Deutschlandfunk) with “excitement” running through the music (Downbeat, US), and a “revelation” (Jazz Magazine, FR). There…

Ft. Anif Mardin

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Jazzpana is an album by Vince Mendoza, released in 2022. The album is a Download Code, High Quality jazz LP.

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As An Unperfect Actor is an album by Birgit Minichmayr, released in 2022. The album is a jazz LP.

1-LP Holland

Jazz

The only constant about Nguyên's career is that it’s always evolving. The Parisborn and based musician has established himself as a preeminent voice in combining myriad global musics with Vietnamese…

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Tender-hearted yet tenacious, Nils Landgren is a world-class artist. His Funk Unit’s groove is irresistible, and The Man with the Red Horn himself has led the band through their highly successful run…

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Jazz

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Improvisations by Emile Parisien and Roberto Negro. 100 Years of Ligeti: Duo Improvisations Inspired by György Ligeti's String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes".

28 May 2023 marks…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

Louise is an album by Emile Parisien, released in 2022.

A musical journey with Emile Parisien is an adventure, something way out of the ordinary. The soprano saxophonist’s sound is instantly…

Ft. Emile Parisien / 180gr.

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Six years ago – an age! – these two musicians, who had met four years earlier as members of the Daniel Humair Quartet, brought out their first recording as a duo,…

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Their first encounter during Bremen’s Jazzahead festival in 2017 was an immediate meeting of minds: Iiro Rantala and The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen are…

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Good Stuff is an album by Iiro/Ulf Wakenius Rantala, released in 2017.

Ft. Vocalist Immy Churchill

1-LP Holland

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At the age of just twenty-one Emma Rawicz has already sown many of the important seeds for a major career. She clearly can be considered a part of the wave of Young British Jazz…

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Soul music is such a broad genre. There’s funky soul, blue-eyed soul, neo soul, RnB, New Orleans soul, Motown-soul, etc. This album is a blend of those different types of…

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Stockholm. May 2020. Covid restrictions. "It somehow felt as if one of my limbs had been severed. I had a longing to sing, I was missing music so much," Ida Sand remembers. And her…

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Jazz

SHALOSH. It means ‘three’ in Hebrew. It is the name of a piano trio but also denotes a lot more than that. For the three Israeli musicians Gadi Stern, David Michaeli and Matan Assayag, SHALOSH is more than…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Once again the groove is catchy, the way of shaping melodies utterly distinctive; these aspects define the sound of Shalosh. And once again, the trio is incredibly tight – after all, the band’s name does…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Les Égarés is more than a record. It’s play space, a locus of musical life, a poetic asylum inhabited by two twosomes who for years have excelled in the art of crossfertilising sounds and transcending…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

At the beginning of the 2000s, Norwegian singer Solveig Slettahjell and her Slow Motion Quintet made the European jazz scene really sit up and take notice. Her concept, as Canadian critic John Kelman has…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Peter Somuah's music draws its influences from jazz, funk and the music of Ghana.

With his new album "Letter to the Universe", Peter Somuah has ventured further out into the musical cosmos as a travelling…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

With “Resonanzen” (Resonances) Johanna Summer has extended her extraordinary art and deepened the way she re-tells the music of classical composers through improvisation. The album spans a wide range,…

1-LP Usa

Jazz

With her uniersal yet individual style Youn Sun Nah gives traditional vocal jazz a new flavour, while unconventionally and effortlessly exploring new exciting spaces. She is one of the most outstanding…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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There are only a few figures in m usic whose work influences and shapes a genre as a whole. This is undoubtedly true of the Swede…

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Jazz

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There are only a few figures in m usic whose work influences and shapes a genre as a whole. This is undoubtedly true of the Swede Esbjörn Svensson. With his trio e.s.t., the pianist and…

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On the occasion of Charlie Parker's 100th birthday in 2020, “Bird Lives” opens, produces and records a new, orchestral view of his music. Played by one of the best big bands in Europe,…

.. Berlin Philharmonic Xii - Sketches of Miles/180gr.

2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Among the legends of jazz , Louis Armstrong still stands out as the best known of them all, but Miles Davis also has his…

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Viktoria Tolstoy's ACT debut album, "Shining On You" from 2004, can now be seen as a defining moment, marking the beginning of the continuing success story of popular jazz voices…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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Originally formed in 2009 by bassist Dan Berglund (formerly e.s.t.), guitarist Johan Lindström (Per Texas Johansson), pianist Martin Hederos (Soundtrack Of Our Lives) and…

.. Blaue 2 / Blue Coloured Vinyl / Limited Edition

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Coloured Vinyl, Limited Edition

Fahrt Ins Blaue 2 is a compilation of Coloured Vinyl jazz tracks released as LP on 1 Jun 2018.

.. - the Jubilee Album

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Twenty Five Magic Years - The Jubilee Album is a compilation of jazz tracks released as on 7 Apr 2017.

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

“Mosaic”. The Wasserfuhr brothers, Julian (trumpet) and Roman (piano) explain the title: “It fits in with our musical processes of the past two years. Despite a huge variety in the individual…

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Music never happens in a vacuum. The places where it is played inspire it, shape it and help it to develop; they are like an extra musician. And therein lies the creative…

2-LP Holland

Jazz

Wasted & Wanted by Wollny, released 23 February 2012.

This version of Wasted & Wanted comes as a 2xLP.

The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. Another vinyl is pressed as a opaque

1-LP Holland

Jazz

“Wartburg” fizzes and shimmers with all the acuity of Michael Wollny's senses and his protean capacity to be alive to the possibilities and the magic of the moment. This is improvising at the limit, life…

.. Traumbilder

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Jazz

Heinrich Heine: Traumbilder is an album by Michael Wollny, released in 2022.

Christian Brückner and Michael Wollny prove to be the perfect couple to make Heine sound again. With aesthetic…

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When chance takes a hand, it can write the most unlikely stories. Michael Wollny has made more than a dozen albums as leader during his 15 years as a recording artist, but has left it…