Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon - A Moment of Now (2013)

Though there are many beautiful singing voices in jazz today, Viktoria Tolstoy is one of a kind; she makes happiness sound fragile and threatened, and bitterness sweet and enchanting. She has framed and perfected this art on a conceptual level since becoming an ACT artist in 2003, whether concentrating on material from Esbjörn Svensson whose e.s.t. began to some extent as her accompanying trio or, most recently, on Herbie Hancock, classical originals, Swedish standards or repertoire from Russia, the home of her ancestors. Her latest album "A Moment Of Now" is her most frank recording yet for one simple reason: 'Jacob [Karlzon] and I are the concept this time,' says Viktoria.