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Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
The surprise for the folks who haven't followed the quarter century span of Keith Jarrett's Standard Trio--those who jumped onboard with, say, Live at the Blue Note (ECM, 1995), or Up For It (ECM, 2003)--will be just how good these guys were right from the very start. Things just seemed to click into place on their ...
Valentin Silvestrov: Bagatellen und Serenaden
by AAJ Italy Staff
Valentin Silvestrov è uno di quegli autori difficile da collocare per il suo rappporto conflittuale con l'avanguardia del '900. Per questa passa e se ne discosta, percorrendo vie parallele misurate su parametri personali. Senz'altro la sua musica si ispira al passato romantico e tardo romantico e oltre (potendo citare Malher e il primo Schoemberg, Schostakovich, Debussy, ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by John Kelman
While Nik Bärtsch's 2006 ECM debut, Stoa, was a powerful first shot across the international bow, garnering a place on many journalists' “Best of" lists for the year, the Swiss pianist had, in fact, been honing his self-proclaimed “Zen Funk" since the beginning of the decade, starting with the equally descriptive Ritual Groove Music (Ronin Rhythm ...
Enrico Rava / Stefano Bollani: The Third Man
by John Kelman
With the diminishing role of mentoring in jazz, it's gratifying to not only watch a young artist emerge from under the tutelage of a more senior master, but to become a musical equal. Italian pianist Stefano Bollani may have been drawn into the world of jazz at the age of 24 by veteran trumpeter Enrico Rava, ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Chris May
Pianist/composer Nik Bartsch's wondrous synthesis of intellect and funk, of lofty cerebral abstraction and urgent physical energy, is so thrilling that it may produce in the listener an urge to scramble on top of the nearest building and start yelling “hallelujah!" and “eureka!" at everyone within earshot. Holon is the second album Bartsch has ...
Jon Balke: Book of Velocities
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esponente di primo piano della Free Improvised Music europea, il pianista Jon Balke lascia per il momento la guida della Magnetic North Orchestra e dell'ensemble Batagraf, per dedicarsi pienamente al suo strumento. E' singolare ma l'eclettico artista norvegese debutta solo ora, all'età di 52 anni, con un lavoro in piano solo, in un percorso tanto lirico ...
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Setting Standards is a clever repackaging of three Keith Jarrett Standards Trio releases: Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985) and Changes (ECM 1984). These releases were the ostensible ground zero for what would go on to be the pianist's Standards Trio for the next twenty-five years. This limited release box ...
Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that Keith Jarrett's “standards" trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, has been around for a quarter of a century. It's not just the pianist's longest lasting ensemble, but one of most permanent line-ups in jazz history. To celebrate the occasion, ECM Records has released Setting Standards: New ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista norvegese Jacob Young giunge al suo secondo album per l’etichetta ECM di Manfred Eicher e riprende il discorso iniziato con il precedente Evening Falls senza cambiare gli ingredienti della ricetta. La musica rimane crepuscolare e malinconica, pervasa da quella luce soffusa che solo il grande nord sa evocare con sincerità e intensità. Anche i ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Martin Gladu
Is Carla Bley a Naive artist? The commercial exploitation of her works notwithstanding, one finds, in the simplicity and recurrence of themes; progressions and forms; and idiosyncratic style--as well as in the peculiar ponderous feel to much of her compositions, self-trained, instinctive approach to music-making and libertarian personality--many of the same features found in Naive artistry.
