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Keith Jarrett: Concerts - Bregenz / Munchen
by John Kelman
In the realm of solo improvised piano performance, few approach Keith Jarrett's recorded legacy--both for quality and quantity. With Rio (2011), Jarrett brought the number of solo CD releases on his longtime label, ECM, to fifteen. The absence, in full, of Concerts (1982) on CD--originally three LPs of solo performances from Bregenz and München--has remained a ...
No End
by John Kelman
When Keith Jarrett released Spirits in 1986 on his longstanding/exclusive label, Germany's ECM Records, this two-disc home recording- -featuring the pianist on a multitude of instruments in addition to his main axe, including a bevy or recorders and flutes, guitar, saz and percussion--came out of the blue to his legion of fans while, at the same ...
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man
by Glenn Astarita
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne's Snakeoil is a group that bonds asymmetrical contours into the big picture, where many progressive jazz aficionados often expect the unexpected from this artist who radiates an antithesis to conventional norms. More of the gradual ascensions, tricky time signatures, fractured flows and odd-metered unison choruses come into play on Shadow Man. Berne's ...
ECM Records and Vijay Iyer announce collaboration
Vijay Iyer recently recorded his first album for ECM at New York’s Avatar Studio, with Manfred Eicher producing. While Iyer has been recognized predominantly for his fresh approaches to jazz, ECM now proposes to document a broader scope of his work, which will highlight his compositions and multi-media pieces, as well as improvisation. The first collaboration, ...
John Abercrombie Quartet: 39 Steps
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il nuovo CD di John Abercrombie vede ancora un cambio di formazione nel suo quartetto. Al posto del sax tenore di Joe Lovano, presente nel precedente Within a Song ritorna il pianoforte, che mancava dai tempi del quartetto con Richie Beirach negli anni '80, affidato a Marc Copland, compagno di vecchia data del chitarrista qui al ...
Marc Sinan: Hasretim - Journey to Anatolia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Hasretim - Journey to Anatolia - An exploration of musical roots. Mai giudicare un libro dalla copertina, diceva quel tale. Ma in questo caso, titolo e sottotitolo dell'album, una volta appurato che Hasretim significa anelito, desiderio, dicono tutto. Vi si scopre l'esigenza, il bisogno, che Marc Sinan avverte di andare alla ricerca delle proprie radici, musicali ...
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man
by Troy Collins
New York-based alto saxophonist Tim Berne has long been regarded one of the Downtown scene's most forward-thinking bandleaders. Among his peers, no other artist has so often fostered the creative talent of subsequent generations; multi-instrumentalist Chris Speed, keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Jim Black all spent their formative years playing alongside the veteran saxophonist. Likewise, Berne ...
Ralph Towner / Wolfgang Muthspiel / Slava Grigoryan: Travel Guide
by John Kelman
Following an early series of ensemble releases for ECM (the label he's called home as a leader since 1973), Ralph Towner ushered in the new millennium by focusing on solo explorations with Anthem (2001) and Time Line (2006). Not that there's anything wrong with that, but after classic records like Solstice (1975) and Batik (1978), there ...
Zsofia Boros: En otra parte
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un giro nel mondo della chitarra classica in cinquanta minuti. Si potrebbe definire così il percorso sonoro di questo CD tra autori latino-americani, spagnoli e statunitensi. L'idea di base della chitarrista ungherese è speculare rispetto a quella di molti autori omaggiati (in primis Leo Brouwer), che avevano incorporato nel proprio retaggio afroamericano il mondo armonico euro-classico. ...
John Abercrombie Quartet: 39 Steps
by Andrew Luhn
Guitarist John Abercrombie has had a long and successful association with ECM records and for his latest release, 39 Steps, he completes his quartet with a piano. Abercombie had success with this format in the 1970s with Richie Beirach, George Mraz, and Peter Donald, but in the past 10 years his ECM releases have been more ...
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