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Evan Parker: Boustrophedon
by AAJ Italy Staff
E se alla fine l'annosa diatriba sulla opposizione/dialettica tra composizione e improvvisazione fosse solo frutto di un errore percettivo? Giusto chiederselo allora, quando l’ECM licenziò Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 di Roscoe Mitchell, doveroso rinnovare l’interrogativo in occasione dell’uscita del disco gemello di quell’opera straordinaria, Boustrophedon, con Evan Parker a guidare il Transatlantic Art Ensemble ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando
by Martin Gladu
Bobo Stenson sings! Well, not literally, but the highly communicative and evocative qualities that characterize his music are indeed imbued of such conductive lyricism that it seems rather appropriate pointing out Cantando (Spanish word for singing) is a well-chosen title. Unpretentiously carving their place amidst the select cast of historically-significant piano trios, ...
Vassilis Tsabropoulos/Anja Lechner/U.T. Ghandi: Melos
by Dan McClenaghan
Melos approaches a highbrow listening experience. It's another gorgeous offering from ECM Records, teaming Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos with German cellist Anja Lechner and Italian drummer U.T. Gandhi. From the first delicate piano notes of the title tune, joined in short order by the rich, mournful cry of the cello, it's obvious that the players have ...
Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli: Yeraz
by John Kelman
On the surface saxophone and accordion together might seem unusual, but it's really a perfect combination. Both are reed instruments driven by air--one blowing, the other compressing or expanding a bellows. Saxophonist Trygve Seim and accordionist Frode Haltli have been collaborating for some time, notably in the saxophonist's ensemble responsible for Sangam (ECM, 2004). Despite no ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando
by Dan McClenaghan
Fans of the piano trio have been listening hard and wide for a follow-up to the "Holy Grails": Bill Evans' Live at the Village Vanguard (Riverside Records, 1961) and Waltz for Debby (Riverside Records, 1961). Those sets introduced democracy to the group's three-way interplay, making drums and bass near-equal partners with the piano. Swedish ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando
by Budd Kopman
The ECM label has championed the jazz aesthetic, quite audibly European rather than American, in differing proportions from release to release. Indeed, although ECM's New Series is ostensibly dedicated to new classical music, its edges leak over into jazz. For forty years and over one thousand albums, ECM has led the way towards the creation of ...
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs Of An Other
by Budd Kopman
The mesmerizing Songs Of An Other is the second ECM studio recording for vocalist Savina Yannatou and the instrumental group Pimavera en Salonico. Their first ECM release, Terra Nostra (2003), was live and not actually recorded, but licensed by ECM, which led to their first studio ECM recording, Sumiglia (2005).Pimavera en Salonico has been ...
Carla Bley Big Band: Appearing Nightly
by Budd Kopman
Appearing Nightly conflates four of the most delightful things in the world--being in a jazz club with white tablecloths and a martini listening to live music played but a few feet away, a big band cooking on stage, the music being played harkening back to jazz of the 1950s, and finally that music refracted through the ...
Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Anja Lechner: Melos
by Budd Kopman
While the composer, performer and listener approach any given piece of music from differing perspectives, each needs the others for a work to become fully actualized. Improvisation combines the first two roles to the extent it is done, bringing the listener closer to the source of the inspiration. Melos is an extraordinary musical ...
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs of An Other
by John Kelman
Greek singer Savina Yannatou and her longstanding group, Primavera en Salonico, continue to mine music from a wealth of seemingly disparate cultures, proving that politics and religion may divide, but music unites. Avoiding the liner notes, what's perhaps most surprising about Songs of An Other is how the songs may feel as if they're aligned with ...
