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Jordina Millà and Barry Guy: Live In Munich

by Mike Jurkovic
There is an elusive, impossible logic to Live In Munich, an album that could sound so much like so many before it. But it does not. Because the music that roils tidal between Catalan pianist Jordina Millà and British bassist Barry Guy on their debut concert performance may be more the sound of creation than music ...
Tomasz Stańko Quartet: September Night

by Alberto Bazzurro
Una musica sospesa, carica di pathos, magari sempre un po' uguale a se stessa (all'interno di questo album, che viene da lontano, essendo stato inciso addirittura nel 2004, ma più in generale nell'ultima produzione di Tomasz Stanko), ma in possesso di un potere seduttivo immutato, e peraltro con periodiche impennate (per esempio in Euforila," ma anche ...
Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life

by Chris May
Reissued as part of ECM's 180gm-vinyl audiophile Luminessence series, Bright Size Life was originally released in 1976 and features Pat Metheny leading his then regular touring trio completed by bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. It is a lively and lovely album and rediscovering it should be a delightful experience for anyone who has perhaps ...
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette: Gateway

by Mike Jurkovic
Maybe in a world a-tuned to the sound of people seeking their own expressive modal dialogue to negotiate, barter, pray or prevent the king's rise, Gateway would have been the greatest jazz guitar trio album ever made. It certainly feels that way when one slips this handsome disc from its wrappings, handle gently to the turntable, ...
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes: Outpost Of Dreams

by Chris May
Any release by Norma Winstone is an event and Outpost Of Dreams, her much anticipated first album since 2018's Descansado (Songs For Films) (ECM), rises to expectations. It presents her in a new duo setting with pianist Kit Downes, a star in his own right who is equally on point as an accompanist. His sensitive, empathetic ...
Child You

Album: My Prophet
By Oded Tzur
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 08:29
Giovanni Guidi: A New Day

by Chris May
There are in effect two albums on this disc by Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi's trio, and whether a listener would prefer to have just one of them will be a matter of personal taste. The duality stems from the presence of guest tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis on four of the seven tracks. ...
Nitai Hershkovits: Call on the Old Wise

by Mario Calvitti
Il catalogo ECM è ricco di album di solo piano, a partire dagli inizi della label, quando i lavori di Paul Bley, Chick Corea e Keith Jarrett hanno fortemente contribuito a rilanciare il genere, spostandosi dalla rilettura di standard e composizioni originali, fino allora prevalente, all'improvvisazione spontanea con poca o nessuna preparazione preliminare. Questa formula sarà ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet: September Night

by Chris May
How sorely Tomasz Stańko is missed. When he passed in 2018, his career had spanned practically the entire lifetime of homegrown Polish jazz, kicking off approximately with the Dave Brubeck Quartet's seminal tour of Poland in 1958, three years after the ban on jazz had been lifted by the country's ruling Communist Party. For Stańko, aged ...
Oded Tzur: My Prophet

by Mike Jurkovic
Simultaneously an open call to prayer and a frisky dance of the debutantes, Epilogue" and Child You" beckon and pirouette the muse, the spirit, the higher gods of our calling to come and celebrate My Prophet. Crazy good from the solemn Epilogue" to the rattling closer, Last Bike Ride In Paris," My Prophet is ...