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Evan Parker / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Evan Parker's marvelous and moving Boustrophedon is a companion piece to saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM, 2007), recorded live in Munich the night before Mitchell's suite and using the same musicians, The Transatlantic Art Ensemble. Both Parker and Mitchell were commissioned to compose music for a symposium for improvised music, ...
Roscoe Mitchell / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
by Budd Kopman
The distinction made between jazz and classical music is usually one of rhythm and artistic depth, of improvisation versus composition, of the player being the creator versus the player as interpreter. However, upon deeper reflection, the two musics both have composers and interpreters, with the difference being one of emphasis. Saxophonist and composer ...
The Dowland Project: Romaria
by Martin Gladu
"Genuinely knowing ourselves always involves knowing how others see us...The meaning of a culture reveals itself in its plenitude only through encounter and contact with a culture different, even alien to it." writes ECM founder Manfred Eicher in Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM (Granta, 2007).Besides a similarity to Lacanian thinking, these words lay ...
Evan Parker: Boustrophedon
by Henry Smith
The follow-up to Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM, 2007), Evan Parker's Boustrophedon features the saxophonist/improviser conducting and playing with the Transatlantic Art Ensemble, a collected group of musicians from Europe and the U.S. brought together to perform these two semi-composed works for a Symposium for Improvised Music in Munich. The group, consisting ...
Misha Alperin: Her First Dance
by Budd Kopman
With Her First Dance, Moldavian pianist Misha Alperin returns to ECM six years after the release of Night (2002). He brings with him two past musical partners--cellist Anja Lechner, who appeared on Night, and also with bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi on the phenomenal Ojos Negros (ECM, 2007), and horn player Arkady Shilkloper, whom Alperin first met in ...
The Dowland Project: Romaria
by C. Michael Bailey
Tenor John Potter, late of the Hilliard Ensemble, formed the Dowland Project in 2003 ostensibly to record the music of Medieval English composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Dowland has several modern benefactors, including Paul O'Dette, Jakob Lindberg and Nigel North. These artists have concentrated on the letter of Dowland, making faithful reproductions of his music with sensitivity ...
Marylin Crispell: Vignettes
by Martin Gladu
This time going at it alone sans the support of the piano-trio setting that served her so well on her previous outings for ECM, Vignettes sees pianist Marylin Crispell in an even more vulnerable context than usual. An integral part in the development of ECM's free music corpus, Crispell enjoys great company in the label's prestigious ...
Norma Winstone: Distances
by John Kelman
For some, the most intimate setting of choice is the duo. For Norma Winstone, while working in larger groups over the past five decades, her recorded history with ECM suggests that this British vocalist's preferred setting is the trio--specifically one with piano/keyboards and a wind or brass instrument. From the minimalism-meets- improvisation of Azimuth to the ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January
by Budd Kopman
From the first notes of the beautiful and seductive January, two things are immediately evident-- that the piano trio, now named after its pianist Marcin Wasilewski, is making a true statement of purpose, and that this recording is an arrival achieved through sound, primarily Wasilewski's rapturous sound. Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiwicz and drummer ...
Marcin Wasilewsky Trio: January
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo nuovo lavoro dell’affermato trio polacco, reso noto dalla collaborazione con il trombettista Tomasz Stanko (clicca qui per leggere le recensione del CD Lontano), suscita differenti reazioni. Perché se da un lato non si può negare la maestria dei tre musicisti, tangibile fin dalla prima breve traccia, dall’altro l’ascolto svela progressivamente una certa ridondanza delle pur ...
