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Marilyn Crispell - David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House

Read "One Dark Night I Left My Silent House" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

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. ...

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Dark Eyes

Read "Dark Eyes" reviewed by Ian Patterson

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 ...

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Paul Motian / Jason Moran / Chris Potter: Lost in a Dream

Read "Lost in a Dream" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Pianos have rarely been featured in drummer Paul Motian's ensembles, though his years with Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett have surely left an impression on his approach to balladry. Lost in a Dream is a collection of Motian ballads recorded at the Village Vanguard in early 2009, with Motian in the intriguing company of pianist Jason ...

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Dino Saluzzi: El Encuentro

Read "El Encuentro" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

On El Ecuentro, Argentine bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi teams with saxophonist brother Felix Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner in a meeting with Holland's Metropole Orchestra. It is Saluzzi's first recorded encounter with an orchestra, and his first ever live recording. More familiar ground for Saluzzi is his work with Lechner, on Ojos Negros (ECM, 2007), and ...

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Dino Saluzzi: El Encuentro

Read "El Encuentro" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Since first emerging on the ECM label in 1983, Argentinean bandoneonist/composer Dino Saluzzi has demonstrated that even the most ethnic of instruments needn't be stylistically pigeonholed. From the solo recital of Kultrum (1983) and unorthodox improvisational pairing with Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen on 2005's Senderos, to the all-star grouping of 1986's Once upon a time--Far away ...

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Food: Quiet Inlet

Read "Quiet Inlet" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

A reduction in personnel rarely results in a broader musical expanse, but that's just what happened to Food, since trumpeter Arve Henriksen and bassist Mats Eilertsen departed in 2004. Molecular Gastronomy (Rune Grammofon, 2008)--Food's first duo recording, though the use of guests fleshed the group out to a trio--was Food's most accessible album to date, without ...

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Tord Gustavsen Ensemble: Restored, Returned

Read "Restored, Returned" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

A spare beauty has characterized all of pianist Tord Gustavsen's trio recordings, and in this sense Restored and Returned is a natural continuation of his musical journey, with space and subtle dynamics characterizing these intimate compositions. What sets this recording apart from his most recent efforts is mainly the addition of vocalist Kristen Asbjørnsen, who brings ...

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Ketil Bjornstad: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The disc is called Remembrance, but it could just as well have been tagged “Prayers" or “Hymns," or “The Search for Peace and Tranquility," words that seems a fit with the music of Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad.Bjørnstad began his sojourn at ECM Records with Water Stories in 1993. In his eight recordings for the ...

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Steve Tibbetts: Natural Causes

Read "Natural Causes" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

First things first: this is a mellow record. A very mellow record. Not Ben Webster mellow, or Antonio Carlos Jobim mellow, or Morton Feldman mellow, but rather, a record of music depicting a kind of quietism: profoundly passive contemplation. And it's not clear that quietism is a direction all jazz fans will want to go.

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Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene

Read "Crime Scene" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Che bella sorpresa. A differenza del solito prodotto ECM dal suono immacolato e dalle atmosfere rarefatte, questo Crime Scene irrompe con il suo miscuglio di free jazz, rock & roll, funky, drum & bass, musica orchestrale e orizzonti nordici. La voce profonda di Clint Eastwood ci introduce ad una immaginaria colonna sonora nella quale le atmosfere ...


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