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Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror
by Warren Allen
Charles Lloyd QuartetMirrorECM Records2010 The perception of Charles Lloyd has changed since he first rose to popularity as a 1960s-saxman, sporting flower power colors and a momentous afro, and was somehow tied to mainstream jazz, the avant-garde and the popular psychedelic movement. A brief recess from recording, ...
Charles Lloyd: Mirror
by Hrayr Attarian
Charles Lloyd's Mirror is an intensely personal almost autobiographical work. This is apparent from the opener, a deconstructing of the standard “I Fall in Love Too Easily," where the saxophonist's urgent and pleading tone accurately conveys the feeling of unrequited love. The first track bleeds into the next, the traditional gospel tune “Go Down Moses," rearranged ...
Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene
by Ian Patterson
Such is the strength of the ECM aesthetic--visually as well as musically--that it's one of very few record labels in the history of jazz that is referred to describe a person's musical tastes. The northern European jazz sound which Manfred Eicher has made synonymous with his fabled label--cool, spacious, pastoral--colors the majority of ECM releases, so ...
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by Joe Alterman
Keith Jarrett, like Sonny Rollins, is quite hard to pin down. Like the iconic saxophonist, for many years now, the equally legendary pianist has been leaning towards the songs of his youth, and even earlier. Compared with their song choices of, say, twenty years ago, it would seem that these players have become more conservative over ...
Anat Fort: And If
by John Kelman
Pianist Anat Fort's ECM debut, A Long Story (2007) may have featured her “dream team"--and was all the better for it--but there's something to be said for the comfort and chemistry of longtime collaborators. Bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider may not have the cachet of Ed Schuller or Paul Motian, but having worked with ...
Norma Winstone: Stories Yet to Tell
by John Kelman
Distances (ECM, 2008) wasn't British vocalist Norma Winstone's first release to feature her current trio of reedman Klaus Gesing and pianist Glauco Venier, but with ECM Records' greater exposure and reputation, it was the first to reach a broader international audience. With Distance a largely lyric-based alternative to Winstone's always lovely wordless vocals on Chamber Music ...
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror
by John Kelman
Sometimes the trust in knowing can yield more than the excitement of uncharted territory. Charles Lloyd ratchets down the energy from Rabo De Nube (ECM, 2008), one of the most exciting, free-wheeling albums and new groups of the saxophonist's half century career. Relying on the quartet's increasingly profound chemistry--and mostly recycled material rather than Rabo's largely ...
Keith Jarrett - Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jarrett e Haden si sono incontrati in diverse occasioni negli anni Settanta, ma mai in duo, quindi Jasmine può essere considerata -anche solo per questo- una novità nell'ormai omologata produzione jarrettiana che da molti anni si limita al trio, ad altre centellinate sortite solistiche e poco altro. Del resto il pianista nei suoi quarantacinque anni di ...
Marilyn Crispell - David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House
by AAJ Italy Staff
È un dialogo sottile e misterioso, profondamente coinvolgente, quello espresso dalla Crispell e Rothenberg nel loro primo disco assieme, inciso per l'ECM. Tutti i brani sono liberamente improvvisati ma la concentrazione sulla dimensione melodica e sull'essenzialità delle forme è così alta, che la musica sembra frutto di un lungo lavoro preparatorio, su composizioni strutturate da tempo. ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Dark Eyes
by Ian Patterson
As a trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko clearly owes a debt to Miles Davis; yet, after four decades making some of the most arresting small ensemble jazz music in Europe, the Polish veteran perhaps deserves to be considered in the same category as the iconic legend. As a trumpeter, composer and leader, Stanko has few peers, past or ...
