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2-LP Holland

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Passacaglia is a multi-colored musical dialogue between two unique characters who are leading figures in European jazz and…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

A Polish violinist, the pianist from the Netherlands and a cellist from Paris. Different countries. Different musical heritages. And the instrumentation of the classical piano trio. What is astonishing is that…

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In the new album, Nesrine the solo artist gives us further glimpses of her personal and musical life story. She grew up in France as a child of Algerian parents. She learned classical…

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3-LP Holland

Jazz

When Bernard Purdie is not helping some big star to create a fantastic studio sound, the drummer pursues his own projects such as "Soul to Jazz", two albums he recorded in 1996 and 1997. Released…

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Playground is an album by Camille Bertault & David Helbock, released in 2022.

Camille Bertault and David Helbock are two of the most jaw-droppingly talented members of the cohort of…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Colourful arrangements, thrilling, breathtaking improvisations, fascinating rhythms. Available as double CD and double LP.

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

Winterlight is an album by Scott Dubois, released in 2016. The album is a jazz LP.

4-LP Europe

Jazz

Live In Hamburg by E.S.T., released 31 July 2014.

This version of Live In Hamburg comes as a 4xLP.

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

1-LP Import

Jazz

Most jazz musicians are also travellers. Their places of work are the clubs and festivals of the world, so they are always on the go. Echoes of Swing has another dimension: This quartet is also on a journey…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

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When accidents happen, they are normally over in seconds, sometimes minutes; this one has been going on for 20 years. It is two decades since the members of Emile Parisien's quartet…

.. '95 / Green Transparent Vinyl + Download Code

2-LP Holland

Jazz

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They have been lauded as the "New sound in the Old World", and as "high voltage out of Sweden"; the group has been called "possibly…

.. Gothenburg / 180gr. Red Transparent+Download Code

3-LP Holland

Jazz

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The Esbjörn Svensson Trio continues to be a bright beacon of inspiration and influence. There…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

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In those ten years there have been constant reminders of the indelible mark which Esbjörn Svensson’s piano playing…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Thelonius Monk was one of the truly great piano geniuses on the international jazz scene. Esbjörn…

.. Susie Soho / Yellow Transparent Vinyl + Downloadcode

2-LP Holland

Jazz

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The trio has sold three times as many albums as jazz acts normally do, but they still manage to stay on the…

.. Iii

2-LP Europe

Jazz

All good things come in threes, they say......and in fact the idea of a trilogy of albums – a first recorded in Italy, a second in France, and a third in Sweden – has been present in the minds of…

.. Northern Sky

1-LP Holland

Jazz

A remarkable ACT debut from one of the fastest-rising young Nordic jazz musicians.

Available as CD and LP.

1-LP Holland

Jazz

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Anna Gréta goes gentle...into her second album on ACT, “Star of Spring”. The Reykjavik-born pianist, singer and a songwriter, who has lived in Stockholm since 2014, has her own…

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Jazz

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"It has always been really important for me," says Fiona Grond, “not just to be the singer with the melody while the other musicians are doing everything else." So, on her ACT debut…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

"Silent World" is about the essentials of being human, a message which Haffner signals clearly with concise track titles such as "The Peace Inside", "Hope" or "Belief". Sometimes we’re in the world of hymns,…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Austrian Syndicate…the phrase immediately brings to mind the best-known and most influential of all Austrians in jazz, Joe Zawinul. And yet David Helbock’s project is much more than just a homage to his…

Ft. Sebastian Studnitzky & Arne Jansen

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Helbock has been inspired by the innovations and concepts of Lennie Tristano, and his sense of affinity with the Chicago-born genius runs deep. Tristano once decreed that…

.. Williams / 180 Gr.

1-LP Holland

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We all have the music in our lives from which there is no escape. It reaches deep inside, becomes planted ineradicably in the memory. Other, extra-musical occurrences can…

2-LP Holland

Jazz

Verdi, Wagner, Beethoven, Bach...Germany’s premer jazz bassist Dieter Ilg has instigated several creative projects, in which he has taken the great composers of Western classical music off in new directions.…

.. Wieder! / 180gr.

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"This band just does everything right" wrote the Hamburger Abendblatt recently about the performance of the jazz-techno-big band phenomenon "Jazzrausch Bigband" in the…

. Breakdown / Works Beethoven & Leonhard Kuhn / 180gr.

1-LP Holland

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With special guest: Nils Landgren / trombone on Sonata I - IV.

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’. The…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

“However much you know jazz or techno, you haven’t heard anything quite like this.” All About Jazz

Since almost eight years, and with continuously growing, international success, the German…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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Swiss vocal acrobat Andreas Schaerer and Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima have some things in common. As artists, each is essentially in a category completely of his own.…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Shine is an album by Jacob Karlzon, released in 2014. The album is a jazz LP.

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Berlin might well be considered widely as the creative hub of the German jazz scene, but in the deep south of the country there is another city where talented and promising musicians are finding new pathways in…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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The jazz symphony "Europeana" is a central work in the ACT catalogue. It epitomises the power of jazz that spans regions, times, styles and personalities. And to mark the 80th…

.. On the Water / 180gr.

1-LP Holland

Jazz

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1 LP, Virgin Vinyl Black 180g, High Res Download Code.

A gem from the ACT archives, originally released in 2006 on CD, now fort he first time on Vinyl: "In its rare…

.. Drive Ii / 180gr.

1-LP Holland

Jazz

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The quartet "4 Wheel Drive" consists of four of Europe's most renowned and successful jazz musicians: Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson and Wolfgang Haffner. And…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Funky Abba is an album by Nils -Funk Unit- Landgren, released in 2005. Funky Abba includes a.o. the following tracks: “Empty Hearts”, “If You Go Away”, “I Will Wait For You”,…

.. Stockholm / Limited Edition of 2000 Copies

2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Available on CD and Double Vinyl-LP.

Vinyl is a Limited Edition of 2000 copies, thereof 1000 copies coloured vinyl (first come…

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2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Layers Of Light is an album by Nils & Esbjorn Svensson Landgren, released in 2005. Layers Of Light includes a.o. the following tracks: “Song From The Valley”, “Kauk”,…

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The sound world of “Kristallen” relishes the moment when the surfaces and edges of crystals shimmer and cast off unexpected colours. There is a certain stillness, and also room for…

.. Call

2-LP Holland

Jazz

Creole Love Call (vinyl) by Landgren, Nils & Sample, Joe, released 30 September 2022.

This version of Creole Love Call (vinyl) comes as a 2xLP.

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

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1-LP Holland

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A unique solo recording by Nils Landgren. Available as CD and LP.

"All the songs have a special meaning to me, whether they are songs I sang in church as a child or just picked them up…

.. Journey / 180gr.

2-LP Holland

Jazz

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Sentimental Journey is an album by Nils Landgren, released in 2005. Sentimental Journey includes a.o. the following tracks: “Speak Low”, “This…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

Snarky Puppy founder, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy winner Michael League and cossover piano icon Bill Laurance take us to an imaginary place full of beauty, peace and energy. "Where you wish you…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

A series of dark, warm string chords opens the curtain on a vista of spaciousness and great sonic depth. Soon after, an intense rhythm develops, classically light and tightly grooving at the same time. A…

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Silk, an image of Asia & the Orient, in which shades sparkle in the sands of the deserts of Africa. Fervent melodies fly away on rhythms of trance, chanting instruments move across…

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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Stockholm Underground is an album by Magnus Lindgren, released in 2017.

The jazz album is available in the following configurations:

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1-LP Holland

Jazz

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Any conversation about the piano trio in the European jazz of recent decades will inevitably touch on the topic of the “Nordic sound”. The leading exponents of it - Jan…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Jan Lundgren is one of those pioneers who gave European jazz its distinct identity and freed it from American jazz. The Ystad-based pianist combines virtuosity, an acute sense of tonal colour, awareness of form…

1-LP Holland

Jazz

Stay Now is an album by Joel Lyssarides, released in 2022.

For Joel Lyssarides jazz is above all a language, a tool for uniquely personal expression. He composed the pieces for “Stay Now” in a remote house…