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The Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden Duo Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Keith Jarrett has enjoyed a long and productive career which eventually became dominated by his monumental improvised solo performances and his work with his Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Along the way, he released albums by his now sometimes overlooked but excellent American and European Quartets. Revisiting almost everything in Jarrett's discography is rewarding, but his duo sessions with bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 2007, especially so. These albums are Jasmine (ECM, ...
Continue ReadingKenny Wheeler: Gnu High
by Chris May
Trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Kenny Wheeler's exalted Gnu High, first released in 1976, is one of two albums with which ECM launches its audiophile vinyl reissue series, Luminessence, on April 28, 2023. The Luminessence mission statement is to showcase albums that have “changed perceptions of creative music making." And few would dispute this summation of the first batch of releases (listed below). Some of the albums will be presented in facsimile editions, others--such as Gnu High--in gatefold ...
Continue ReadingECM Records Touchstones: Part 2
by Dan McClenaghan
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This second edition of “ECM Touchstones" explores more of the label's early recordings, repackaged and offered up as a way to present music that had perhaps slipped through time's cracks, into the hard-to-find category. Of these, four were re-released in 2019, one in 2008--32 to 43 years after their original releases. The music on these albums is stylistically diverse and uniformly excellent. All of it has stood the test of ...
Continue ReadingJarrett, Fodde, Tamura, Bartlett, Douglas, And More
by Bob Osborne
On this show a selection of brand new releases from Lucia Fodde, Keith Jarrett, Natsuki Tamura, Doug Stone & Marcelo Magalhães Pinto, Harry Bartlett, Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch, Matias Formica, and Dave Douglas.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Lucia Fodde “Yesterdays" from Traces of You (Self Released) 00:40 Keith Jarrett “Bordeaux Concert Part 1" from Bordeaux Concert (ECM) 04:44 Natsuki Tamura “Karakara" from Iyaho (Bandcamp) 16:38 Doug Stone & Marcelo Magalhães Pinto “Chatting By The Fire" from Shifting Perspectives ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert
by Mario Calvitti
Un nuovo album di Keith Jarrett rappresenta sempre un evento, anche se da quando l'ictus che lo ha colpito togliendogli la capacità di suonare il pianoforte possiamo soltanto aspettarci registrazioni realizzate nel corso delle sue passate tournée. In particolare, questo concerto di Bordeaux appartiene all'ultimo tour del pianista, cinque concerti tenuti in Europa nel Luglio 2016, il primo (a Budapest) e l'ultimo (a Monaco) dei quali sono già stati pubblicati su disco nel 2019 e 2020. Il concerto di Bordeaux ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert
by Karl Ackermann
Recorded at the Bordeaux National Opera House, in July 2016, Bordeaux Concert marks Keith Jarrett's final solo performance in France. The improvised suite came from a prolific European tour which has produced three ECM releases to date. There is little doubt that the label will continue to extract Jarrett's live performances in the post-2018 period, which has left him unable to play. Bordeaux Concert demonstrates that, even as Jarrett aged and cultivated his repertoire, he never let intellect overpower spontaneity. ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert
by Mike Jurkovic
Like so much of his renowned canon—including Köln Concert, Bremen-Lausanne, La Scala, A Multitude of Angels (ECM, 1975, 1973, 1997, 2016)— Bordeaux Concert feels like it has always been there. In the air, in the heart, in the quiet turnings of a world at large. Just waiting for one to encounter it and come to the greater understanding of just how beautiful, how peaceful, this life can be. Communicative on every level, Bordeaux Concert places the listener front ...
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