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Paul Motian: Paul Motian (Old & New Masters Edition)

Read "Paul Motian: Paul Motian (Old & New Masters Edition)" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In a time when leadership roles are being thrust increasingly upon young musicians who may have the chops, the technique and the theory, but not the experience, drummer Paul Motian could be considered a lesson in patience, in waiting for the right time, in holding off for the precise moment of readiness.It's not that ...

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Craig Taborn Trio: Chants

Read "Chants" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist Craig Taborn's first ECM Records release under his own name, Avenging Angel (2011), garnered well-deserved praise as a worthy entry into the German label's long line of solo piano recordings by stellar artists such as Paul Bley, Chick Corea and, of course, Keith Jarrett. With Chants, a piano trio outing, Taborn will be held up ...

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Craig Taborn: Chants

Read "Craig Taborn: Chants" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

While he's been making himself a ubiquitous presence on the jazz scene for the past two decades--playing with everyone from saxophonists Tim Berne, David Binney and Chris Potter (on the equally stellar The Sublime And (Thirsty Ear, 2003), Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011) and The Sirens (ECM, 2013), respectively), to bassists Michael Formanek and Scott Colley (whose ...

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June Tabor, Huw Warren, Iain Ballamy: Quercus

Read "June Tabor, Huw Warren, Iain Ballamy: Quercus" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

June Tabor has been superb for so long that it is easy to take her for granted as England's finest female traditional folk singer. Despite holding that status for many years, she has never seemed to rest on her laurels. Alongside the traditional folk songs on which she built her reputation, Tabor has a repertoire broad ...

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Nicolas Masson – Roberto Pianca – Emanuele Maniscalco: Third Reel

Read "Third Reel" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il ginevrino Nicolas Masson, il ticinese Roberto Pianca e il bresciano Emanuele Maniscalco si sono riuniti in questo trio attorno a un'idea forte. Un'idea magari non così insolita, di questi tempi, ma che riesce comunque a generare una musica di estremo rigore e coesione. La non eccessiva originalità si deve al fatto che non mancano di ...

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Iva Bittova: Iva Bittova

Read "Iva Bittova" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

The catch-all term avant-garde is often used to describe singer/violinist Iva Bittová's music, but in truth her musical language--kaleidoscopic in color and unique in presentation--is essentially unclassifiable. A well known actress, Bittová expanded her horizons to music in the early eighties, since when she's bounced from Bartok to experimental rock, and from folk-influenced jazz to her ...

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Chris Potter: The Sirens

Read "The Sirens" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Saxophonist Chris Potter has consistently shown a deep feeling for jazz tradition and a willingness to modernize his vocabulary at the same time. The lyricism of Lester Young, the fearlessness of Charlie Parker, the keening spiritualism of John Coltrane and the tireless creativity of Sonny Rollins all inspire him, as do funk, electric set-ups and classical ...

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Stephan Micus: Panagia

Read "Panagia" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Almost like clockwork since 1983 (though he began his association with the label, on its subsidiary JAPO label, in 1977 with Implosions), multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has been delivering albums to ECM every one-to-three years. His modus operandi is largely the same: continue to scour the world for rarely exposed ethnic instruments and use them in contexts ...

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Charles Lloyd: Quartets

Read "Charles Lloyd: Quartets" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

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), ...

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Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

Read "Concert in Athens" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

For more than two decades, Eleni Karaindrou has been composing film scores for Theo Angelopoulos and releasing soundtracks on ECM, including Ulysses' Gaze (1995), with violist Kim Kashkashian, and Music for Films, where Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek performs music from the Greek film director's The Beekeeper (1986). Concert in Athens isn't Karaindrou's first live recording; 2006's ...


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