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Piano Four-té: Keyboard Masters Delight On A Quartet of ECM Luminessence Vinyl Reissues

by Joshua Weiner
June 24, 2025

Blue Note. Verve. Impulse! Prestige. Just saying the name of such storied jazz record labels immediately conjures up each one's distinct aesthetic, from the music to the cover art. Over the past half century, the German ECM label has earned its place in this pantheon by steadfastly following its own vision, perhaps best summed up by ...

Ten Supreme Fender Rhodes Albums

by Chris May
September 16, 2024

In 1965, reeling from the impact of Motown and the Brit invasion led by the Beatles, and about to be hit by the triple whammy that was acid rock and the rebel culture that went with it, jazz was on the back foot. Its relevance as entertainment, art form and spiritual sustenance was under threat, at ...

A.R.C.: A.R.C.

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2023

Without the exploding theorems of multi-reedist/composer/alchemist Anthony Braxton, A.R.C., the multifarious rhythm trio of Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, continue the grand work of the short-lived (but most esteemed) quartet Circle on this 1971 reissue and remaster of the exploratory and free flying A.R.C. Corea, who, after a short solo turn would ...

The Artists Of ECM Records

by Maurice Hogue
January 30, 2023

I've often tried to make the last show of a year a little different. Doing a special on ECM is an idea I've had for a while, and things finally came together to do it for 2022. I've always figured I had a great number of ECM releases in my collection, and when I started culling ...

This Is America: An Anthology

By Johnny Gandelsman

Label: Circle
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1: O; Sahra be Wyckoff; Sinekemān; Stroon; Steeped: I. Impromptu; Steeped: II. Moto perpetuo; Steeped: III. Cadenza; Tardigrades; Dew, Time, Linger; A City Upon a Hill?. Disc 2: With Love From J; Dance Suite Movement I: negating gravity on a molecular level (meditation); Dance Suite Movement II: the virtue of lightness; Dance Suite Movement III: surrender to your tiredness (tragedy); Dance Suite Movement IV: getting rid of our skin; Dance Suite Movement V: the sense of plenty of time (generosity); Dólii; A Current Took Her Away; A través del manto luminoso; Reflections; Tomeka Reid – Rhapsody for violin; Barbary Coast 1955. Disc 3: Stitched; Withdraw; For Courtney Bryan; Surrender to the Adventure I. Blossom /American Dream; Surrender to the Adventure II. Fenestration /All Men Are Created Equal; Surrender to the Adventure III. Inflorescence /The Pursuit of Happiness; Surrender to the Adventure IV. Propagation /A More Perfect Union; Stones; Pallavi – A Meditation on Care; Breathe.

Johnny Gandelsman: This Is America: An Anthology

by Hrayr Attarian
July 5, 2022

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman is as versatile as he is innovative. An accomplished composer, improviser and a producer, Gandelsman defies categorization and excels in the watershed area among genres. A member of both the unique string quartet Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble and the owner of Circle Records, Gandelsman has his finger on the pulse ...

Cycle: Jin-Brebl-Concert

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 28, 2021

Parafrasando, titolo e copertina, un celeberrimo doppio album del '71 del quartetto Circle di Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, Dave Holland e Barry Altschul, il quintetto protagonista di questo lavoro batte in realtà strade abbastanza autonome, incasellando in sei brani originali (di cui due impro collettive) Vignette di Gary Peacock e, icona evidentemente inevitabile, quel Nefertiti che ...