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Dewey Redman Quartet: The Struggle Continues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non era mai stato ristampato in CD, The Struggle Continues, del sassofonista Dewey Redman e - complice forse la recente scomparsa del musicista - l'ECM riempie finalmente questo tassello mancante [fa forse sorridere il fatto che un disco veda la sua prima diffusione in CD quando questo medium è già sulla via del pensionamento, ma tant'è]. ...
Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
by John Kelman
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Scandinavian music scene, no matter what the musical space, is how fluid it is, and how few borders exist--if any exist at all. Anything is possible. The three singers of Trio Mediaeval--Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Tornn Østrem Ossum--first emerged in the early part of the ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by John Kelman
Despite suggestions by some that, now nearing the quarter century mark, it's time for pianist Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio to hang up its hat for good, My Foolish Heart demonstrates that there's still plenty of life left in this group. Recorded at the 2001 Montreux Jazz Festival less than a week before the Munich performance documented ...
Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by Martin Gladu
In Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM (Granta, 2007), guitarist Steve Tibbetts writes about folk artists: “Sometimes they start a musical movement that perpetuates or re-forms, sometimes they birth a musical dead end. Without much extrapolation, the first part of Tibbett's affirmation applies equally to producer Manfred Eicher, acclaimed for his talent at creating unique genre-crossing ...
Tord Gustavsen Trio: Being There
by AAJ Italy Staff
Terzo CD del trio del pianista norvegese Tord Gustavsen (dopo Changing Places e The Ground), questo At Home è un lavoro intimistico e rarefatto ma che, pur inserendosi nella tradizione nordica, vi immette alcune interessanti variabili. In primo luogo, nel trio appare più rilevante il ruolo della batteria rispetto a quello rivestito dal contrabbasso; poi, le ...
Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations II
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist/composer Miroslav Vitous will likely be regarded in history as one of the founding members of Weather Report, staying with them until 1973. Emigrating to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1966, Vitous worked with a wide variety of musicians and has continued to do so since returning to Europe. He has recorded fourteen albums as ...
Manu Katche: Playground
by Budd Kopman
Part of what makes jazz so fascinating is its stylistic breadth. Indeed, the word jazz is almost synonymous with “that-which-shall-not-be-defined," but labels are a shorthand that can help relate a given release's main characteristics. Playground, drummer Manu Katché's second release as a leader after Neighbourhood (ECM, 2005), resists the application of a label, but “ECM Smooth ...
Manu Katche: Playground
by John Kelman
It may not appear until the fourth track in, but the propulsive “So Groovy" could easily have been the title for the follow-up to Manu Katché's award-winning ECM debut, 2005's Neighbourhood. Still, Playground is no less fitting since it's an album that demonstrates--with three-fifths of Neighbourhood's members reconvened, and two younger but emergent players replacing the ...
Eberhard Weber: Stages of A Long Journey
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist Eberhard Weber has had a long recording career with ECM Records, dating back to 1970. His first album as a leader, The Colours of Chloe (ECM, 1974), helped to define the sound and essence of the ECM persona. His series of absorbing and innovative albums has continued through to Endless Days (ECM, 2001). ...
Sinnika Langeland: Starflowers
by Budd Kopman
If jazz is an art of synthesis (rather than fusion) whereby disparate musical forms and styles are brought together in the spirit of exploration and experimentation to create something new, then Starflowers is just about the perfect album. Vocalist Sinikka Langeland, of Norwegian and Finnish background, has merged her investigations of the folk ...
