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Nils Økland: Monograph
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo un paio di album realizzati con la Rune Grammofon e diverse collaborazioni da sideman, Nils Økland realizza il suo primo lavoro in totale solitudine, Monograph , per la ECM. Musicista e compositore di grande raffinatezza e maestro dello strumento tradizionale norvegese per antonomasia, l'hardanger fiddle (antenato del violino), da sempre lambisce la scena jazzistica senza ...
Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando Bollani registra per la ECM, le cose si mettono serie. Non che gli manchi d'improvviso la goliardia, ma perché è quasi inevitabile addentrarsi nel mondo sonoro di Manfred Eicher senza rimanerne influenzati, nel suono e nel modo d'intendere l'esperienza musicale. Stone in the Water è la giusta sintesi. È un album ECM - nella timbrica ...
Carla Bley: Carla's Christmas Carols
by John Kelman
Carla's Christmas Carols? For many, the idea of their favorite jazz artist releasing an album of seasonal songs usually smells of crass commercialism or pure pandering, but leave it to pianist/composer/arranger Carla Bley to produce an album that's as reverentially in the spirit of the season as it gets, while being musically deep enough to fit ...
ECM at 40: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 3-6, October 22-25, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12 ECM at 40. It's hard to believe that a record label responsible for stretching the boundaries of modern music has survived the various crises that have threatened and, in some cases, decimated so many others. With Enjoy Jazz's “The Blue Sound: 40 Years ...
Keith Jarrett: Testament - Paris / London
by Mark Corroto
For fans, music critics, and musicians, the music of pianist Keith Jarrett can be like a dopamine release in the brain. Like any pleasurable activity --sex, drugs, food--listening to Jarrett's music releases a neurotransmitter chemical in the brain that reinforces the pleasure systems of the body. Pick any spot in his nearly 50-year career and fans ...
Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes of Rita
by Dan McClenaghan
The Astounding Eyes of Rita rings to life on four resonant notes from Tunisian oudist Anouar Brahem, joined in short order by the deep, rich tone of Klaus Gesing's bass clarinet. The music sounds ancient, like something from an old civilization, full of past truths that still hold true. Manfred Eicher, the man in ...
New Solo Recording by Keith Jarrett
On October 6th, ECM released a new solo recording by Keith Jarrett - Testament, Paris/London.Jarrett's solo concert tradition continues with two highly creative performances of recent vintage - from Paris's Salle Pleyel on November 26, 2008, followed by London's Royal Festival Hall on December 1. The English date was Jarrett's first London solo concert ...
New ECM Releases in October
Anouar BrahemThe Astounding Eyes of RitaRelease date: October 6Anouar Brahem oud; Klaus Gesing bass clarinet; Bjrn Meyer bass; Khaled Yassine percussionECM brings a new album of warm, dark sounds and dancing, organic pulses from the Tunisian oud master, performed by his new band with German bass clarinettist Klaus Gesing, Swedish bassist ...
New ECM Release from Rolf Lislevand
Diminuito - a new recording by Norwegian master lutenist Rolf Lislevand will be released on October 27th.'The expansion and contraction of arranged and improvised elements allows the original Baroque material to breathe authentically in our own time, resulting in a phantasmagoria whose haunting effects are only accentuated by ECM's beautifully spacious recording. ... This ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by Nenad Georgievski
Jon Balke Siwan ECM Records 2009 Keyboardist Jon Balke's project Siwan is another category-defying masterpiece blending different elements from various traditions and styles into something special. It is an incredibly powerful work, where Balke makes the kind of cinematic music that simply defies tidy description because of its ...
