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Chris' Potter Quartet At Chris' Jazz Cafe On February 22, 2013
Chris’ Jazz Cafe presents saxophonist Chris Potter and his quartet on Friday February 22, 2013. Potter is touring in support of his ECM label debut as a leader,The Sirens an album of mood and melody inspired by The Odyssey. Potter is considered one of the top saxophonist of his generation, has toured extensively with Dave Holland ...
Francesca Han: Right Music, Right Time
by Ian Patterson
Korea has never been more fashionable, leading the way in technological advances and dictating hair styles, television viewing, eye shape and pop music trends across Asia and beyond. The mindboggling response to singer PSY's song “Gangnam Style," with over a billion hits on You Tube, epitomizes the phenomena of the so-called “Korean Wave." Fewer people, inevitably, ...
Chris Potter: The Sirens
by John Kelman
The appearance of saxophonist Chris Potter as a leader on ECM may come as a surprise to some, but a look back at the label's 44-year history makes The Sirens--his label debut and 19th as a leader since first emerging with trumpeter Red Rodney before he'd turned twenty, and releasing his own debut, Presenting Chris Potter ...
ECM: A Cultural Archeology
by John Kelman
ECM: A Cultural ArcheologyHaus der KunstMünchen, GermanyNovember 23, 2012-February 10, 2013A trip to München (Munich) is a bit like a pilgrimage for fans of Germany's ECM label, especially right now, with the city's Haus der Kunst hosting a three-month exhibition, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, celebrating the music of this nearly 44 ...
Avenging Angel
By Craig Taborn
Label: JazzMa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
1. The Broad Day King - 6:16; 2. Glossolalia - 2:45; 3. Diamond Turning Dream - 4:17; 4. Avenging Angel - 6:56; 5. This Voice Says So - 9:44; 6. Neverland - 4:29; 7. True Life Near - 4:30;
8. Gift Horse/Over the Water - 7:37; 9. A Difficult Thing Said Simply - 4:36; 10. Spirit Hard Knock - 4:37; 11. Neither-Nor - 3:19; 12. Forgetful - 7:58; 13. This Is How You Disappear - 5:03.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Craig Taborn.
Michael Formanek: Small Places
by Hrayr Attarian
Bassist Michael Formanek's second release on ECM, Small Places, is an impassioned and gratifying album. Working with the same quartet as his first, The Rub and Spare Change (ECM, 2010), the music here has crystallized and matured further as the familiarity and camaraderie among the artists has grown. Although The Rub was freer ...
Michael Formanek: Small Places
by Troy Collins
Small Places is bassist Michael Formanek's follow-up to 2009's The Rub and Spare Change, his critically acclaimed ECM debut as a leader. While Formanek's sophomore effort for the label features the same high profile sidemen, it differs in that the lineup rehearsed the material live before heading into the studio with producer Manfred Eicher, where every ...
Michael Formanek: Small Places
by John Kelman
It's no secret that pathological fans view every artist discovered as a new branch on an endlessly growing musical tree. It should come as no surprise, then, that labels--at least, those run by folks as pathological as the fans they hope to attract--operate with the same eye to discovery and expansion. ECM has, in its forty-plus ...
Gerald Cleaver & Uncle June: Detroit Jazz Festival, September 2, 2012
by Steve Bryant
Gerald Cleaver & Uncle JuneDetroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 2, 2012The 2012 Detroit Jazz Fest had one of the best lineups in years, especially for fans of the mainstream headliners. However, for those who like their music adventurous and intrepid, it wasn't that type of party. The one standout act, though, was ...
Chris Potter: The Personal Stamp
by R.J. DeLuke
Chris Potter is one of the most visible saxophonists on the scene in recent years. There are reasons for that. Not only does he have incredible chops, inner drive, intensity and the impulse to always be creative--as if that's not enough--he can fit into any musical situation and find a way to contribute.Coming through ...
