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Odyssey: In Studio and In Concert

By Terje Rypdal

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1 (Odyssey, Disc 1): Darkness Falls; Midnite; Adagio; Better Off Without You. CD2 (Odyssey, Disc 2): Over Birkerot; Fare Well; Ballade; Rolling Stone. CD3 (Unfinished Highballs): Unfinished Highballs; The Golden Eye; Scarlet Mistress; Dawn; Dine And Dance To The Music of The Waves; Talking Back; Bright Lights—Big City.

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Article: Live Review

London Jazz Festival: November 9-18, 2012

Read "London Jazz Festival: November 9-18, 2012" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining

London Jazz FestivalLondon, England November, 9-18, 2012Now in its 20th year, the London Jazz Festival is a vast, all-encompassing affair. One of the great cities of the world, London's history saw it swallow village upon village and hamlet after hamlet and this can make it all seem dispersed and disconnected. It's an ...

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Article: Album Review

Food: Mercurial Balm

Read "Mercurial Balm" reviewed by David McLean

by David McLean

Food's seventh studio album and second for the ECM label is easily the most cohesive offering from its varied discography. A combination of live and studio recordings, British saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian beat technician Thomas Strønen travel through a rich plateau of effervescent electronics, propulsive yet angular rhythms and near twilight jazz phrasings, which combine ...

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Article: Year in Review

Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2012

Read "Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2012" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compile an end of the year list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. The ten titles included below are among the most exceptional new jazz albums I've heard in 2012. Jason Robinson Tiresian Symmetry Cuneiform Records

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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012

Read "Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Scores of excellent CDs were released in 2012. These are some of the finest. Click on the CD titles for more in depth reviews. Hal Galper Airegin Revisited Origin Records Pianist Hal Galper has been delving deeply into his rubato explorations of the standards, along with his ...

Article: Album Review

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

Read "Ad Lucem" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Conosciuto principalmente per il notevole contributo dato ai gruppi di Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd e Tomasz Stanko, a fianco dei quali ha inciso numerosi album in veste di accompagnatore per tutti gli anni '90, il contrabbassista svedese Anders Jormin è in realtà anche un affermato compositore, operando in diversi ambiti extrajazzistici che vanno dal folk tradizionale ...

Article: Album Review

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live

Read "Live" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

L'ascolto del doppio CD Live sarà di sicuro interesse sia per chi attendeva da tempo un disco come questo da parte di Nik Bärtsch, sia per chi si avvicina per la prima volta a questo artista e alla sua band Ronin. Registrato dal vivo in diverse località dove il pianista svizzero si è esibito nel corso ...

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Article: Album Review

Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

Read "Dream Logic" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The ingredients are all electric on guitarist Eivind Aarset's Dream Logic: plugged-in guitar and bass; programming; samples; dictophone; and electronics. The resulting atmospheric layering of sound with subtle dynamics and inorganic drones could be described as sterile, but what a beautiful, mysterious sterility it is.The Norwegian guitarist has contributed to several ECM Records recordings, ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Balke: Magnetic Works 1993-2001

Read "Magnetic Works 1993-2001" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Questo doppio CD raccoglie una selezione della produzione della Magnetic North Orchestra di Jon Balke, tratta dagli album Further (1994), Solarized (1999) e Kyanos (2002). La riedizione, opportuna e interessante, permette di ricordare e tener conto di quanto si muoveva in Norvegia a cavallo del nuovo secolo, mentre l'accostamento dei tre lavori consente di apprezzare in ...

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Article: Album Review

Benedikt Jahnel: Equilibrium

Read "Equilibrium" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

He may be better known internationally to ECM fans for his participation in the pan-cultural Cyminology, but German pianist Benedikt Jahnel has been devoting just as much attention to his multinational trio featuring Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and American drummer Owen Howard. Releasing the trio's debut in 2008 on Viennese guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel's Material Records imprint, ...


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