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Meredith Monk: Impermanence

Read "Impermanence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Si fa prima a rivelare cosa non è stata Meredith Monk nel corso della sua lunga carriera. Fuor di dubbio che dagli anni Sessanta i suoi lavori continuano ad incantare per la vivacità e l'eleganza che hanno. Le composizioni della Monk (da lei scritte e quasi sempre interpretate) nascono tutte, più o meno di proposito, dall'"intersezione" ...

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Article: Album Review

Stefano Bollani / Jesper Bodilsen / Morten Lund: Stone In The Water

Read "Stone In The Water" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

There is a conversational thread that runs throughout the trio recording by Italian pianist Stefano Bollani and his Danish trio with bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund. Since that colloquia is produced by ECM's Manfred Eicher, the tone is hushed, but the exchange is discerning and intelligent. Bollani's previous disc for ECM was ...

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Article: Album Review

Christian Wallumrod Ensemble: Fabula Suite Lugano

Read "Fabula Suite Lugano" reviewed by David McLean

by David McLean

Christian Wallumrød has that rare gift of having an instantly recognizable sound. The pianist's music is characterized by unique blend of early music, romanticism, and traditional Scandinavian folk music idioms played with the looseness of jazz and academic curiosity reminiscent of two of his major influences, John Cage and Morton Feldman. Wallumrød has managed to harmonise ...

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News: Recording

Carla Bley - Carla's Christmas Carols.

Carla Bley - Carla's Christmas Carols.

On November 3rd, ECM released its very first CD of Christmas music! Carla Bley, one of jazz's greatest arrangers, turns her attention this time to a delightful collection of traditional and non-traditional seasonal fare which she's titled: Carla's Christmas CarolsChristmas music has been an enthusiasm of Carla Bley's for decades, and the pieces she ...

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News: Event

Manfred Eicher Appearing in NYC - Open to the Public

Manfred Eicher Appearing in NYC - Open to the Public

Don't miss a rare opportunity to hear Manfred Eicher (Producer and Founder of ECM Records)in conversation with Gary Giddins (critic /author)November 19th, Thursday, 6:30pmProshansky AuditoriumThe Graduate Center, CUNY365 Fifth Ave (at 34th St)FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RESERVATIONS. Information: 212/817.2005centerforthehumanitiesgc.orgManfred Eicher ...

Article: Album Review

Christian Wallumrød: Fabula Suite Lugano

Read "Fabula Suite Lugano" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Jazz, minimalismo, barocco e musica contemporanea sono alcune delle componenti che si fondono nell'universo musicale di Christian Wallumrød. Improvvisatore colto e raffinato caratterizzato da un autentico senso del suono e della struttura, da anni con le sue produzioni incanta per sintesi ed equilibrio nei contrasti. Questo ensemble, è un sestetto che nasce dall'incontro del leader con ...

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Article: Album Review

Manfred Schoof: Resonance

Read "Resonance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

For every artist that has achieved international attention via the exposure of ECM Records, there are countless others who seem to have been lost beneath the cracks. German trumpeter Manfred Schoof, who recorded three superb albums for the ECM-affiliated JAPO label in the 1970s, was a member of the freewheeling Globe Unity Orchestra alongside Peter Brötzmann, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell: Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street

Read "Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

One of the most significant American composer/musicians of the late twentieth century, Jon Hassell, has served as a synthesist, catalyst, and eventually a sound painter and innovator. He has, over the course of his career, unleashed a stunning new vocabulary that still resounds today in the playing of artists including Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen, Paolo ...

Article: Album Review

Ralph Towner - Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro

Read "Chiaroscuro" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il primo contatto tra i due protagonisti di questo lavoro è avvenuto nell'ormai lontano 1992, in occasione del festival jazz di Sant'Anna Arresi. Successivamente - ed in particolare negli ultimi anni - non sono mancate le occasioni di incontro che hanno dato origine anche ad alcuni concerti, ma solo ora emerge il frutto discografico di quella ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes

Read "Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes" reviewed by David McLean

by David McLean

Tomasz Stanko Quintet Dark Eyes ECM Records 2009 It has been a regular event at the ECM label for artists to change line-ups after three albums. After a trio of releases with the prodigiously talented pianist Marcin Wasilewski--(Soul of Things (ECM, 2002), Suspended Night (ECM, 2003) and Lontano ...


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