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​VARIOUS ARTISTS - Magic Moments 9: In The Spirit Of Jazz

ACT  9820-2

Over the last few years ACT Records have elevated themselves to a position where they are more than strongly challenging ECM as the foremost and most innovative label on the European jazz scene. It seems unfair to call their Magic Moments series "samplers", although that's what they are, but with packaging and liner notes of the exceptional high quality equal to their individual releases. Anyone with the complete set of these discs already has a more than worthwhile library of contemporary jazz, as it stands today.


Their latest addition of the series
 is a fine album of fifteen recordings highlighted by a symphonic tribute to the great Esbjorn Svensson by The Stockholm Philharmonic, a sensitive saxophone reading of Clapton's Tears In Heaven by Jukka Perko, a Michael Wollny / Vincent Peirani piano and accordion duo on The Kiss, plus a striking new trio version of Kenny Barron's Voyage  by the Iiro Rantala trio featuring Lars Danielsson and Peter Erskine.

The full play list is:

From Gagarin's Point Of View, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic                                                                        Lycklig Resa, Jan Lundgren
Sleep On It, Joachim Khun                                                                                                                      La Maga, Gregory Privat Trio
Folksong, Marius Neset                                                                                                                           The Kiss, Michael  Wollny duo
Mirlo, Gerado Nunez                                                                                                                                Simple Song, Nils Landgren
Tears In Heaven, Jukka Perko                                                                                                  Waltz For The Lonely Ones, Victoria Tolstoy
The Call, Lou Tavano                                                                                                                                      Voyage, Iiro Rantala Trio
The Soul, David Helbock                                                                                                                           St James Infirmary, Eric Bibb
Kristallen Den Fina, David Hellbock

You cannot possibly go wrong by getting a copy of this one.

See also: www.actmusic.com

Reviewed by Jim Burlong

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