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Anyone who knows Ulf Wakenius’s work from his playing in Oscar Peterson’s latterday quartet will recall his combative jousting with OP, NHØP and Martin Drew. This beautifully measured homage... — Jazzwise, October 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This quartet blends elegant, bleakly beautiful Nordic airiness with rich textural and rhythmic elements from the Mahgreb (Arabic North-West Africa) and draws in Mali via the Desert Blues elements... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Lars Danielsson’s Libretto have staked-out a corner of jazz for themselves where calm, thoughtful, melodically based improvisation prevails. — Jazzwise, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With this album, Poland’s most striking violin player since Michal Urbaniak has arrived at the discovery many jazz virtuosi have made, that virtuosity as a-thing-in-itself can overwhelm expression,... — Jazzwise, December 2021 - January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Tributes, written for the excellent Danish Radio Big Band under its prizewinning young composer/conductor Miho Hazama, is just as kaleidoscopically eventful as [past] releases, but Neset now... — Jazzwise, November 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The instrumentation is traditional and also thoroughly contemporary. There’s intense Korean shamanic singing set against rising rocky rhythms on ‘Exhale-Puri’, a great instrumental cover of... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Their attachment to deeply felt melody, unhurried intensity, framed with the Nordic Tone, and the comparatively unconventional, pop-like structures of their compositions endeared them to jazz... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World More…