Magic Moments 5: In the Spirit of Jazz – review

(ACT)This is a sampler from ACT Records' catalogue to usher in the label's 20th anniversary. Eighteen tracks represent its diverse artists and an output featuring plenty of accessible, pop-angled funkiness, some of it tellingly personal (singer/trombonist Nils Landgren), some veering on bland (Viktoria Tolstoy's Come On, Come Over, not altogether to her credit here). But many ACT artists also demonstrate a probing creativity drawing on free-jazz, improv and contemporary classical. The emphasis ...

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