Jazz Articles about Frances-Marie Uitti
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Instrument: Cello
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Frances-Marie Uitti/Paul Griffiths: There Is Still Time
by John Kelman
Like its more jazz-centric regular issues, ECM's New Series--which has focused almost exclusively on classical composition, with a strong predilection for contemporary writers like Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli--has provided safe haven for projects that blur the boundaries of strict definition. Cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Vassilis Tsaboropoulos' Chants, Hymns and Dances interpreted the music of G.I. Gurdjieff with a more openly improvisational aesthetic that, in its combination of reverence and irreverence, paid the best possible tribute to Gurdjieff's more ...
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