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Article: Live Review

Vossa Jazz 2013

by John Kelman
April 10, 2013

Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...

Article: Album Review

Anders Jormin: Between Always And Never

Read "Between Always And Never" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
April 4, 2013

Anders Jormin leads a remarkably busy life. Bassist with pianist Bobo Stenson's Trio, he has also played with the likes of saxophonists Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Charles Lloyd and Joe Lovano, as well as drummers Elvin Jones and Jack DeJohnette. He records under his own name, composes works for symphony orchestras, studies ethnic music in Cuba ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Charles Lloyd: Quartets

by John Kelman
March 20, 2013

ECM's Old & New Masters Edition series was not just created to bring material back into print. Some has been available on CD before, but an even bigger carrot for fans of the label is material that has never been on compact disc, like bassist Arild Andersen's three 1970s recordings, collected on Green in Blue (2010), ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Wislawa

by John Kelman
March 18, 2013

Since returning to the ECM fold in 1994 to record Matka Joanna (1995), Tomasz Stańko has virtually rebooted a career that demonstrated significant promise back in the 1970s, when he released Balladyna (1976) for the label, and worked with others including Finnish drummer Edward Vesala and American bassist Gary Peacock. The Polish trumpeter was far from ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song

by John Kelman
February 28, 2013

Looking back at Charles Lloyd's sizable discography as a leader, what's becomes immediately clear is that the saxophonist has shared a number of special, long-term musical relationships with pianists: first, Keith Jarrett, in the quartet that brought Lloyd considerable fame and commercial success in the 1960s; and then Bobo Stenson, when he returned from nearly two ...

Album

Ad Lucem

By Anders Jormin

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Hic et nunc; Quibus; Clamor; Vigor; Inter simper et numquam; Lignum; Matutinum; Vox amimæ; Vesper est; Lux; Cæruleus; Matutinum - Clausula.

Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012

by Dan McClenaghan
December 21, 2012

Scores of excellent CDs were released in 2012. These are some of the finest. Click on the CD titles for more in depth reviews. Hal Galper Airegin Revisited Origin Records Pianist Hal Galper has been delving deeply into his rubato explorations of the standards, along with his ...

Article: Album Review

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 21, 2012

Conosciuto principalmente per il notevole contributo dato ai gruppi di Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd e Tomasz Stanko, a fianco dei quali ha inciso numerosi album in veste di accompagnatore per tutti gli anni '90, il contrabbassista svedese Anders Jormin è in realtà anche un affermato compositore, operando in diversi ambiti extrajazzistici che vanno dal folk tradizionale ...

Article: Album Review

Mwendo Dawa: Mwendo Dawa Music

Read "Mwendo Dawa Music" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 25, 2012

The Swedish quartet Mwendo Dawa (in Swahili: the way to a special goal) is co-led by keyboardist Susanna Lindeborg and reed player Ove Johansson, both also working as a duo and running the LJ Records label, which has operated since the late seventies and defined its own means of musical expression. Throughout the years, this quartet ...

Article: Album Review

Lars Jansson Trio: Koan

by James Pearse
November 8, 2012

The second Lars Jansson Trio recording of 2012, after the outing with Ensemble MidtVest on Worship Of Self (Prophone, 2012), is a deep and reflective one. Koan not only remembers the victims of the 2011 tsunami, but also pays homage to the people of Japan and their unique culture.Lars Jansson Trio is something of ...