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Roscoe Mitchell / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
by Budd Kopman
The distinction made between jazz and classical music is usually one of rhythm and artistic depth, of improvisation versus composition, of the player being the creator versus the player as interpreter. However, upon deeper reflection, the two musics both have composers and interpreters, with the difference being one of emphasis. Saxophonist and composer ...
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Marcin Wasilewski TrioBirdlandNew York City, New YorkMay 20, 2008 Pianist Marcin Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and drummer Michal Miskiewicz have been together since they were teenagers fifteen years ago. Over that time, they've put out a few albums locally in Poland and then were fortunate enough to be recommended ...
Misha Alperin: Her First Dance
by Budd Kopman
With Her First Dance, Moldavian pianist Misha Alperin returns to ECM six years after the release of Night (2002). He brings with him two past musical partners--cellist Anja Lechner, who appeared on Night, and also with bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi on the phenomenal Ojos Negros (ECM, 2007), and horn player Arkady Shilkloper, whom Alperin first met in ...
Dromedary Quartet: Sticks and Stones
by Budd Kopman
With Sticks and Stones string players Rob McMaken and Andrew Reissiger, the original members of Dromedary the duo, have reconstituted the group that was on their self-published 2006 eponymous album, replacing bassist Neal Fountain and drummer Jeff Riley with Chris Enghauser and Louis Romanos respectively. While the band's personnel might have changed, their music remains enchanting, ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January
by Budd Kopman
From the first notes of the beautiful and seductive January, two things are immediately evident-- that the piano trio, now named after its pianist Marcin Wasilewski, is making a true statement of purpose, and that this recording is an arrival achieved through sound, primarily Wasilewski's rapturous sound. Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiwicz and drummer ...
Kenji Omae: Here For Now
by Budd Kopman
Tenor saxophonist Kenji Omae is a true man of the world. He was born in Canada, studied jazz at the University of Toronto and did graduate work at Queens College in New York City. Here For Now was recorded in one afternoon in New Jersey just a few days before Omae was to leave for South ...
Satoko Fujii featuring Paul Bley: Something About Water
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Paul Bley was one of pianist Satoko Fujii's teachers at the New England Conservatory of Music, which she attended on scholarship in 1993. Upon attaining her Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance, she recorded the delicately beautiful and mysterious Something About Water (Libra, 1996), that has Bley playing with her on eight of the eleven tracks ...
Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Marilyn Crispell has always been an intense musician, no matter what style of music she happens to be playing. Two of the high points of the ECM catalogue, from the standpoints not only of intensity, but of beauty were Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (1997) and Amaryllis (2001), both with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul ...
Jurg Bucher: The Music of Herbie Nichols
by Budd Kopman
Pianist and composer Herbie Nichols (January 3, 1919 - April 12, 1963) is perhaps most famous for being virtually unknown in his lifetime, and remaining so to a great extent even to this day. His music is usually linked stylistically with Thelonious Monk, whom he knew and admired, because of its wry humor, which hides surprising ...
Ron Thomas / Paul Klinefelter: Blues for Zarathustra
by Budd Kopman
With Blues For Zarathustra, pianist Ron Thomas returns to an area of interest that has always been a part of his musical life, but which has not be emphasized or recorded recently. What he presents, with his long time playing partner, bassist Paul Klinefelter, is a straight-ahead set where simplicity, delicate intensity, constant interplay and a ...
