Jazz Articles about Mathias Eick

About Mathias Eick

Album Review

As the ECM label nears its fortieth birthday, its vitality, inventiveness and, of course, its vaunted sound continue to be a source of joy for jazz enthusiasts worldwide. Manfred Eicher, ECM's founder, has always recorded those artists in whom he hears his own vision, which affects the rest of the jazz world with each new release. Not yet thirty, trumpeter Mathias Eick represents the new blood that any institution needs to grow. The remarkably mature, joyous and ...

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Album Review

Mathias Eick: The Door

by John Kelman
August 12, 2008

Not yet 30, Mathias Eick has racked up an impressive number of appearances on ECM, including guitarist Jacob Young's Evening Falls (2004) and Sideways (2008), drummer Manu Katché's Playground (2007) and pianist/harpist Iro Haarla's outstanding Northbound (2005). But that's only the tip of the iceberg, with the Norwegian trumpeter appearing on over fifty albums ranging from jazz to flat-out rock and roll. So while some musicians his age aren't yet ready to fly solo, Eick has more than paid his ...

Album Review

Mathias Eick: The Door

Read "The Door" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 16, 2008

Dopo aver militato in alcune delle formazioni norvegesi più interessanti e innovative (Motif, JagaJazzist, Motorpsycho and Lars Horntvedt) e partecipato a diversi dischi usciti per la ECM (con Manu Katchè, Iro Haarla, Jacob Young), Mathias Eick debutta con questo The Door, CD autorevole e maturo nonostante la giovane età di Eick (29 anni). La formazione di questo disco nasce originariamente come trio in occasione della consegna a Eick del premio “New Talent 2007” - avvenuta a New York - con ...

Album Review

Manu Katche: Playground

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 11, 2007

Non è facile realizzare un album che sia classico, in senso jazzistico, non banale e capace di uscire dallo stereotipo del filone in cui si inserisce. Playground del batterista francese Manu Katche riesce ad essere queste tre cose insieme. Lungamente al fianco di Peter Gabriel, Sting, Youssou n’Dour e Jan Garbarek, Katche aveva già convinto con la sua prima prova da solista, Neighbourhood. Playground continua laddove il discorso era rimasto in sospeso. Mantenuti saldi il contrabbasso di Kurkiewicz e il ...