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Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life
by John Kelman
Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is most often remembered for his spare, often slow and lengthy compositions, where space is a key component. Kronos Quartet's version of Piano and String Quartet (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1991) is a prime example of the richness and depth Feldman achieved through use of space and gradual, almost imperceptible evolution. While scored, Feldman's Indeterministic ...
Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Marilyn Crispell has always been an intense musician, no matter what style of music she happens to be playing. Two of the high points of the ECM catalogue, from the standpoints not only of intensity, but of beauty were Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (1997) and Amaryllis (2001), both with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Nenad Georgievski
There's not a whole lot 63 year-old jazz legend Keith Jarrett hasn't achieved in his illustrious forty year career as a recording and performing artist. He has recorded more than fifty albums in various formats, and each project has a special significance for his fans. The Keith Jarrett Trio has come a long way from its ...
Jon Balke: Book of Velocities
by Chris May
On paper, Norwegian pianist Jon Balke's first solo album reads like challenging stuff: a collection of eighteen short improvisations, grouped into five sub-sections (four “chapters" and an “epilogue"), and concerned as much with the velocities with which the piano's strings can be struck--and how they can be struck--as with thematic or harmonic development. Something for fellow ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January
by Chris May
With January, pianist Marcin Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz step out of the benign shadow of their mentor, trumpeter Tomasz Stanko--on whose Soul Of Things (ECM, 2001), Suspended Night (ECM, 2003) and Lontano (ECM, 2005) they were featured accompanists--and confirm the mighty promise of their international solo debut, Trio (ECM, 2005).
Jacob Young: Sideways
by Martin Gladu
"Everything in nature is reborn within the circle of life, and shines with new brightness, hope and promises." These words, by writer/illustrator Flavia Weedn, find echo in Lillehammer, Norway-born Jacob Young's “Near South End," a spirit-lifting composition featured on Sideways, his second effort for ECM.Cold-water streams start running anew, licking away slick patches of ...
The Dowland Project - John Potter: Romaria
by AAJ Italy Staff
John Potter (ex Hilliard Ensemble) è un tenore la cui voce è ben nota a chi frequenta le incisioni dell’ECM. Romaria è oramani il terzo album, dopo In Darkness Let Me Dwell e Care-Charming Sleep, del suo Dowland project. Per l’occasione espande il repertorio, esplorando diciassette canzoni d’amore, canti e mottetti, scritti dal XII secolo ad ...
Evan Parker / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon
by John Kelman
The delineation between ECM's regular series and New Series has always been relatively clear--improvised music with the regular series, composed music on the New Series. Still, there's an increasingly substantial gray area, occupying a fuzzy space between the two. Reedman Roscoe Mitchell's outstanding Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM, 2007) occupied that ...
Marilyn Mazur: Elixir
by Budd Kopman
Percussionist Marilyn Mazur is a prime example of why many drummers these days are prone to listing themselves also as percussionists. The distinction is important beyond the number of instruments available to the player and involves the attitude towards their place in any musical enterprise. Drummer/percussionists like Paul Motian, Jon Christensen or Tony ...
Misha Alperin: Her First Dance
by John Kelman
It's been six years since Ukrainian-born Misha Alperin released 2002's sublime Night (ECM), that was recorded in 1998, the same year the pianist recorded his lucent solo album, At Home (ECM, 2001). It was with Night that Alperin first collaborated with Anja Lechner, an increasingly active cellist on ECM, comfortably traversing the narrowing gap between classical ...
