Results for "ECM Records"

Norma Winstone US Tour: Rochester Jazz Festival and Sweet Rhythm

June 11, 2009

Friday June 19th Rochester Jazz Festival Christ Church - Made In the UK Series 6:45 and 8:45PM 141 East Ave Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-3878 Saturday June 20th Sweet Rhythm Vocalists Norma Winstone with Gareth Williams 88 Seventh Avenue ...

Steve Kuhn in New-York - ECM Records CD Release Celebration: "Mostly Coltrane"

June 11, 2009

Charles Lloyd Quartet on Tour This Summer: Minneapolis, New York and Ottawa

June 11, 2009

Thursday July 2nd Dakota, MN Dakota Jazz Club & restaurant at 7:00 and 9:30PM 1010 Nicollet Minneapolis, MN 55403 612-332-5299 Friday July 3rd New York, NY Highline Ballroom at 8:00 and at 10:30PM 431 W 16th St, between 9th and ...

Fly: Sky & Country

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 2, 2009

The near-unanimous acclaim that has greeted Fly's sophomore effort (and ECM debut) tends to see the trio as a second coming of the legendary Bill Evans Trio that recorded the classic Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961). That's the way people are talking about the record, anyway.The record doesn't ...

Fly: Sky & Country

by Jerry D'Souza
May 19, 2009

Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier first played together in 2000 as the Jeff Ballard Trio. Since then they have performed in different groups. The long association has helped establish immediacy between them, a reading of the minds that translates into absorbing music. All three have contributed compositions to Sky & Country, the ...

CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy

by Jeff Stockton
May 16, 2009

CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...

Fly: Sky & Country

by Jeff Stockton
May 16, 2009

15 years ago Mark Turner was among a trio of young tenors who were poised to have a lasting impact on jazz. However, having not had Joshua Redman's pedigree or James Carter's flair for self-promotion, Turner's major-label output came and went without generating the attention a musician of his caliber deserved. Today he is a member ...

Cyminology: Exploring New Compositional Frontiers

by John Patten
May 11, 2009

After forming in 2002, Berlin-based Cyminology has been exploring the rich musical territory bound by the backgrounds of members Cymin Samawatie, pianist Benedikt Jahnel, drummer Ketan Bhatti and bassist Ralf Schwarz. Holding the foursome's unique tapestry of styles together is Samawatie's vocal and compositional work, built around classical Persian poetry, as well as her own writing.

Ambrose Field / John Potter: Being Dufay

by John Kelman
May 11, 2009

In a time when musical boundaries are being dissolved and labels are becoming increasingly meaningless, innovation can be found everywhere. When The Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Norwegian Jan Garbarek on Officium (ECM, 1994) and the follow-up Mnemosyne (ECM, 1999), who knew that the combination of vocal music, ranging from pre-AD Greece to contemporary times, would mesh ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by Dan McClenaghan
May 8, 2009

The components of sound that make-up Arve Henriksen's Cartography, the trumpeter's debut as a leader on ECM, reads like a hyper-processed, low-nutrition, junk food for the ear brew: samples, treatments, synthesizer, dictaphone, programming, beats, voice samples. It is a stew of musical inputs, a layering of sounds that mixes ambient and electronica with snippets of soaring ...