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Iro Haarla Quintet: Vespers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giunta al suo secondo lavoro da leader, dopo avere militato per anni nelle formazioni guidate dal marito, il batterista Edward Vesala prematuramente scomparso nel 1999, la pianista/arpista e compositrice finlandese Iro Haarla conferma la buona impressione suscitata cinque anni fa con l'album d'esordio, Northbound. Non cambiano gli accompagnatori, un quintetto completato da vecchi e giovani leoni ...
Amina Alaoui: Arco Iris
by John Kelman
Following her outstanding performance with the cross-cultural, century-spanning ensemble of Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke's Siwan (ECM, 2009), it's no surprise that the German label has tapped into the Moroccan singer for an album of her own. But as sprawling and ambitious as Siwan was, Arco Iris is, while being no less dramatic, on a much smaller ...
Lee Konitz - Brad Mehldau - Charlie Haden - Paul Motian: Live at Birdland
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si possono ancora suonare standard consunti da decenni di riproposizioni più o meno memorabili e rimanere freschi, non scadendo nel cliché e nella routine? Si può, se ci si chiama Konitz Mehldau Haden & Motian, musicisti per motivi diversi (quasi) sempre capaci di dire qualcosa di stimolante anche nelle situazioni in apparenza più riciclative. Certo, fra ...
Gidon Kremer / Giedre Dirvanauskaite / Khatia Buniatishvili: Tchaikovsky/Kissine Piano Trios
by C. Michael Bailey
The underlying element uniting these two chamber pieces, composed more than a century Apart, are their Russian origins and the piano trio format as compositional vehicle. Jurg Stenzl, in his notes, describes these two piano trios, the first composed in 1882 by Tchaikovsky and the second by Victor Kissine in 2009, as “the beginning and (for ...
Thomas Zehetmair / Ruth Killius: Manto and Madrigals
by C. Michael Bailey
The husband and wife team of violinist Thomas Zehetmair and violist Ruth Killius is best known for its work in the Zehetmair Quartet and, more specifically, for that group's award- winning recording of Schumann's First and Third String Quartets (ECM, 2001). On Manto and Madrigals the creative pair assembles an equally creative recital of duet miniatures ...
Heinz Holliger: Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe - Ich hatte viel Bekummernis
by C. Michael Bailey
Heinz Holliger is to the oboe what James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal are to the flute, or Dennis Brain to the horn: the standard by which all else is compared. He is also an accomplished composer and conductor in his own right, two roles in which he has most often worked while recording for ECM--as ...
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian: Live at Birdland
by Dan McClenaghan
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/MotianLive at BirdlandECM Records2011 The tunes are familiar, Great American Songbook and jazz standards all. So for those unfamiliar with the names involved in this quartet outing, the old complaint of “same old same old" could surface. But with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz at the top of ...
Colin Vallon Trio: Rruga
by Dan McClenaghan
The piano trio--piano, bass and drums--can seem something of an anachronism in a time when musical artists make use of synthesizers, electronics, laptops and loops to craft their sounds. But scores of pianists still go to the acoustic trio format as one of their primary means of expression. In looking toward jazz veterans, Keith Jarrett and ...
Peter Tchaikovsky/Victor Kissine "Piano Trio"
Gidon Kremer: violin Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė: violoncello Khatia Buniatishvili: piano Two compositions bracketing the history of Russian chamber music. A revelatory account of Tchaikovsky's piano trio op.50, juxtaposed with Victor Kissine's “Zerkalo" of 2009, a work dedicated to performers Kremer, Dirvanauskaite and Buniatshvikli, and inspired by two lines from Anna Akhmatova: “The mirror ...
Craig Taborn "Avenging Angel"
Craig Taborn: piano “Avenging Angel" is Craig Taborn's distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them. The disc explores the textural dimensions of sound, builds new structures, uncovers a rugged lyricism. Recorded in the optimal acoustics of ...
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