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Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley - Butterfly Effect (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 28, 2024
Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley - Butterfly Effect (2024)

Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley - Butterfly Effect (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 55:23 | 245 / 128 Mb
Genre: Jazz

According to the "Butterfly Effect", tiny disturbances at one point on the earth’s surface, even the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can trigger huge changes in distant places. For saxophonist/ flautist/ clarinetist Magnus Lindgren and pianist John Beasley, the point of departure here is the smallest possible format for musical interaction, the duo. And it is a starting-point with enchanting consequences.
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Retrospective - The Very Best Of E.S.T. (2009) {ACT Music 9021-2}

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Retrospective - The Very Best Of E.S.T. (2009) {ACT Music 9021-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 453 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 176 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 45 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2009 ACT Music | 9021-2
Jazz / Modern Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Piano Trio

Despite the fact that 2008’ Leucocyte, would be the Esbjörn Svensson Trio's final album due to the tragic scuba diving accident that killed Svensson, this was a band that had traversed such wide musical territory they deserved a retrospective treatment simply to sum up what had transpired between the release of 1993’s When Everyone Has Gone and that premature finale. While this 70-minute single disc doesn’t contain any unreleased material, or pre-1999 material (in favor of presenting the trio’s fully developed aesthetic), it is beautifully compiled.
Nils Landgren & Esbjorn Svensson - Layers of Light (2001) {ACT Music 9281-2}

Nils Landgren & Esbjorn Svensson - Layers of Light (2001) {ACT Music 9281-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 220 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 134 Mb
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© 2001 ACT Music | ACT 9281-2
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Folk Jazz / Trombone / Piano

It was through the influence of Landgren and Svensson’s former teacher Bengt-Arne Wallin, who recorded the landmark album “Old Folklore In Swedish Modern” back in 1962 (ACT 9254-2), that Svensson and Landgren were inspired to make a duo album centered around folk songs. In August 1997 both went into the studio and with only trombone and piano recorded Swedish Folk Modern (ACT 9257-2). Their improvised treatments of the classic songs of the folk culture not only impressed the public; it brought praise from the press.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Unbreakable (2017) {ACT Music}  Music

Posted by shamanicus at Aug. 5, 2017
Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Unbreakable (2017) {ACT Music}

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Unbreakable (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 398 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 154 mb
Jazz, Funk | Label: ACT Music - ACT 9039-2

Some funk, some jazz and some straight-out party music, and when the likes of Ray Parker Jr., Randy Brecker and Tim Hagans are willing to come along for the ride, it’s bound to keep the recipe going and some good music playing.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - E.S.T. Symphony (2016) {ACT 9034-2}

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - E.S.T. Symphony (2016) {ACT 9034-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 466 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 182 Mb
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© 2016 ACT Music | ACT 9034-2
Jazz / Classical / Orchestral Jazz / Modern Composition / Contemporary Jazz / Creative Orchestra

Esbjörn Svensson, the Swedish original who consistently turned crossovers between jazz, pop and classical music into lasting art with EST, would have got around to this orchestral venture himself but for his accidental death in 2008. With its shapely themes, subtle pacing and big climaxes, his popular trio’s music was ideal material, eloquently confirmed here by arranger Hans Ek, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and four star jazz soloists, including brilliant Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala and Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset.
Nils Landgren - 3 Generations (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Nils Landgren - 3 Generations (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 134:03 minutes | 1.43 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Nils Landgren has been and remains the absolute linchpin of the ACT family. To date, the Swede has made forty albums on the label as leader, plus another twenty as producer or soloist. Michael Wollny, whose many many projects with Landgren give him a special connection, sums up a key element in his success: “With Nils everything becomes easy.” There is indeed a particular ease about Mr. Red Horn’s way of being; it is infectious and runs through everything he does. Which is all the more remarkable when one considers the sheer number of roles he takes on: trombonist, singer, bandleader, producer, festival director, professor, curator, talent scout and mentor.

VA - Romantic Freedom - Blue in Green (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 25, 2021
VA - Romantic Freedom - Blue in Green (2021)

VA - Romantic Freedom - Blue in Green (2021)
FLAC tracks | 62:20 | 280 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: ACT Music

ACT is a label with a clear sense of its own identity, values and mission, and these virtues find strong expression in this new compilation. ACT has been a major force since 1992 in bringing to the fore European jazz which transcends the old genre boundaries, and has played a major part in helping this music to become far better known in its many and varied forms. This is in fact the second compilation album from the label to bear the motto “Romantic Freedom”. Back in 2006, fourteen years after the label was founded, the first album with this title focused on performances by solo pianists, a particularly strong area for ACT. Now, another fourteen years on, "Romantic Freedom - Blue in Green" brings the story and the message up to date - and does so in several fascinating ways.
Florian Willeitner, Georg Breinschmid & Igmar Jenner - First Strings on Mars (2021)

Florian Willeitner, Georg Breinschmid & Igmar Jenner - First Strings on Mars (2021)
FLAC tracks | 62:28 | 312 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: ACT Music

Introducing a new artist on ACT: FLORIAN WILLEITNER“I don’t think I have ever known a musician with quite the level of openness to people, to emotions, to musical languages, and the capacity to make them his own as Florian Willeitner. He is a stunningly good violinist, and I discover something new every time I hear him.” Paul Zauner, Founder & Artistic Director, INNtöne Festival In the past the violin in jazz could sometimes seem a bit exotic, even outlandish, but all that has changed. Classical music and jazz are no longer mutually exclusive worlds; these days they enrich each other, and it is the norm for string instruments to take centre stage. The ACT label has played its part in this transformation, with artists such as the Bartolomey/Bittmann duo, the radio.string.quartet.vienna and the incomparable Adam Baldych among the pioneers who created the paradigm shift, and who continue to take their music in new directions.And yet, as violinist/composer Florian Willeitner from Passau in Southern Germany sees it, there is still further to go: “The full potential of the violin, with its unique versatility and its kaleidoscopic possibilities of timbre and texture, is rarely to be heard in conventional jazz settings.”

VA - Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 28, 2021
VA - Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz (2021)

VA - Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:10:34 | 333 Mb
Genre: Jazz, Christmas / Label: ACT Music

Just as there are a multitude of different ways to celebrate Christmas, there is also a vast and appetising array of Christmas music. And whereas Nils Landgren's "Christmas With My Friends" series has been an integral part of the run-up to the holiday season for the past 15 years, it is far from being all that ACT has to offer: a host of other artists from the label have created their own distinctive Christmas sounds. These range from the quiet contemplations of pianist Bugge Wesseltoft or the hymn-inspired "Nordic Christmas" from saxophonist Tore Brunborg, to music from Canadian singer Laila Biali or “a touch of class” (The Observer) from Echoes of Swing… and even the coruscating and youthful energy of the Jazzrausch Bigband. All these and many more are to be found on "Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz". This is the ACT Christmas soundtrack for 2021.

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 23, 2021
Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 129 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christmas | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (9476-2)

Friendship has often been the basis for great collaborations in music. It was also something very special for “Mr. Red Horn”, trombonist Nils Landgren, when two years ago he fulfilled a long-cherished wish by celebrating Christmas With My Friends (ACT 9454-2). The critics celebrated the album as "the year’s most beautiful Christmas CD", "a soulful heavenly journey", and it went Gold in both Sweden and Germany.
Five of the twelve friends who accompanied Nils Landgren two years ago are with him again on Christmas With My Friends II: the classic singer Jeanette Köhn, the versatile vocalist Sharon Dyall, jazz singer and pianist Ida Sand, and The Norrland Duo of Sweden’s most talented acoustic guitarist Johan Norberg and Jonas Knutsson, a saxophonist especially known for his lyrical style…