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Miroslav Vitous Group /w Michel Portal: Remembering Weather Report
by John Kelman
On the surface, Remembering Weather Report possesses little in common with the fusion supergroup that Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous co-founded in the early '70s with keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, before being summarily removed on the cusp of greater commercial success. Weather Report was a decidedly electric group; Vitous' is unapologetically acoustic, and doesn't ...
Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane
by John Kelman
Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by John Kelman
A banner year for ECM in many respects, 2009 has seen two specific releases that, in their intrepid conceptual cross-pollination, stand poised as contemporary masterpieces. One is composer/sound sculptor Ambrose Field's exploration of 15th Century composer Guillame Dufay's music with tenor John Potter on the forward-thinking Being Dufay (ECM, 2009); the other is Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon ...
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy
by John Kelman
Over the course of a dozen years and four albums, British saxophonist Evan Parker's groundbreaking Electro-Acoustic Ensemble has grown in size and scope, from the sextet that released Toward the Margins (ECM, 1997)--and still remains at the core of the group today--to the 11-piece ensemble responsible for The Eleventh Hour (ECM, 2005). Retaining the careful balance ...
Eleni Karaindrou: Dust of Time
by John Kelman
For nearly 20 years Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has been scoring the films of fellow countryman Theo Angelopoulos, perhaps the single greatest nod to ECM producer/label head Manfred Eicher's ongoing love of both music and film--and, in particular, the way the two, at their best, seamlessly intersect to create something bigger than either one alone. The ...
Louis Sclavis: Lost on the Way
by John Kelman
Over the course eight albums, French clarinetist/saxophonist Louis Sclavis has carved his own niche on ECM. Every album possesses a different complexion--from the acoustic free play of Acoustic Quartet (1994) and aggressively open-ended variations of composer Jean-Phillip Rameau's work on Les Violences de Rameau (1996) to the more structured soundtrack for Charles Vanel's 1929 film, Dans ...
Andy Sheppard: Movements in Colour
by AAJ Italy Staff
Evocativo, melodico, “presente," mai scontato anche dove la tessitura musicale infinitamente armonica ogni tanto va a rifugiare, Andy Sheppard è uno di quei nomi protagonisti della musica moderna che mai nessuno potrebbe tacciare di nefandezze. Misurata, equilibrata, tonica, la sua è musica che porta sistematicamente con sè un tocco inequivocabilmente “British" anche se - come in ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by C. Michael Bailey
The competent and successful musico-cultural eutection promoted by ECM founder Manfred Eicher since the release of Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble's Officium (ECM, 1993) takes another quantum step with keyboardist Jon Balke's imaginative and far reaching Siwan. Balke enters a realm of cross-cultural pollination evolving from Officium, through that same collaboration's expanded vision on Mnemosyne (ECM, 1999) to ...
Andy Sheppard: Movements in Colour
by John Kelman
Familiar to ECM fans for his work with Carla Bley including the small group The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (WATT, 2007) and large ensemble Appearing Nightly (WATT, 2008), Andy Sheppard has also proven comfortable in ultra ultra large ensembles like the 200 saxophone strong Saxophone Massive that he led at Mai Jazz 2008 in Stavanger, ...
Louis Sclavis: Lost on the Way
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' sempre un piacere mettere nel lettore un CD di Louis Sclavis. Anche a dispetto, come in questo caso, di un titolo fuorviante (Lost on the Way). Perché il clarinettista di Lione non è certo musicista che si perde per strada. La sua musica ha sempre una coerenza impeccabile, un senso della narrazione non comune. L'idea ...
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