"As we all know, live is always better. As the musicians have direct feedback from the audience, there are no interfering partitions between the musicians and anyway everything is much more spontaneous. The Dutch saxophonist Susanne Alt confirmed that not only do they deliver on their first live CD also another argument: you can-when musicians and record company want- document a full-evening on CD, with no cuts, no compromises. Alt does so with the two sets of her Amsterdam concert on 14 October 2010. The individual numbers are all written by Alt and her three colleagues (pianist Thijs Cuppen as Fender monster, bass player Sven Schuster, with great arco accents and drummer Philippe Lemm with narrow grooves) delicately but composed straight forward, full of catchy themes and full atmospheric changes, even if most of the time its about the groove. The concert setting to match the pieces to be explored extensively as a soloist. In the center is the band leader. It swings smoothly through the between smooth jazz and funk-tinged mainstream iridescent pieces. Old is not so much the new Candy Dulfer, as a young Barbara Thompson. The compact sound of her band keeps the voltage across the entire concert. We would like to have been there, but perhaps, too soon Susanne Alt finds her way into local jazz venues. A crisp, funky evening would certainly be secured." (Jazzpodium 5/2011)
Listen to snippets here: Soundcloud
By the way, the album is still available (also iTunes, bol.com etc)
on 28/01/2016