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Eberhard Weber: Stages of a Long Journey
by AAJ Italy Staff
In passato, sin dai Settanta e per molto tempo da allora, ho sempre fortemente amato l'arte musicale di Eberhard Weber. Il suo inconfondibile suono, la sua straordinaria tecnica, il suo approccio musicale, il suo essere fondamentalmente “tedesco", forse nel migliore senso del termine, la sua solarità senza confini, la sua totale e completa unicità nel panorama ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Nenad Georgievski
Most ECM albums are not only about the notes that are played, but the space between those notes. The label's trademark contemporary sound shines through on prodigal guitarist John Abercrombie's The Third Quartet. Abercrombie is an immediately recognizable musician on that most overplayed of instruments, and the result is an album of extraordinary transcendence that defies ...
Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arve Henriksen è un mago della tromba, con un suono immediatamente riconoscibile che evoca antichi strumenti da mille e una notte. Anders Jormin, al contrabbasso, è un grande che ha suonato con i più grandi. Trygve Seim ha riportato in auge il suono robusto e sensuale dei sassofonisti del periodo classico, aggiornandolo con la tecnica dei ...
John Surman: The Spaces in Between
by Budd Kopman
The sumptuous and moving The Spaces in Between represents eight years of growth--not only for multi-reedman/composer John Surman, but also the string quartet Trans4mation, as it originally appeared on Coruscating (ECM, 1999). Bassist Chris Laurence is the link between the two worlds of jazz and classical music, having worked with Surman for more ...
Paul Bley: Solo in Mondsee
by Budd Kopman
Paul Bley will be seventy-five in November, 2007 and has been recording for over fifty years, taking part in every revolution in jazz since 1950. Famously competitive and a tireless introspector, Bley is recognizable not so much by a particular style, but by his restless attitude and intensity, and perhaps the solidity of each note played. ...
Eberhard Weber: Stages Of A Long Journey
by Alain Londes
On the occasion of his 65th birthday, bassist/composer Eberhard Weber played for two evenings with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and some of his key contemporaries. Scheduling and financial constraints prevented the project from inviting a great number of other musicians including Pat Metheny. Nevertheless, this was a perfect marriage between classical and jazz. Most of ...
John Surman: The Spaces in Between
by John Kelman
One challenge facing many musicians is the documentation of widespread musical interests. More often than not, artists engage in projects that are heard in performance, perhaps on a radio broadcast, but then never again. Sometimes ongoing projects are documented, but only once, as is the case with British woodwind multi-instrumentalist John Surman's superb Stranger Than Fiction ...
Paul Bley: Solo in Mondsee
by John Kelman
It's been thirty-five years since pianist Paul Bley released Open, to love (ECM, 1972), an early classic of the then-nascent German record label. While Keith Jarrett's Facing You, from the same year, would go on to generate greater acclaim for the young pianist, listening to these two discs side-by-side reveals Bley's unmistakable influence. Despite ongoing critical ...
Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by John Kelman
ECM has always looked for new ways to interpret traditional music from different cultures. As far back as 1973, saxophonist Jan Garbarek's Triptykon used a traditional Norwegian folk song as the starting point for open-ended improvisation. More recently, British traditionalist Robin Williamson has teamed with artists normally associated with free improvisation for The Iron Stone (2007), ...
Christian Wallumrod: The Zoo Is Far
by Budd Kopman
With The Zoo Is Far, pianist/composer Christian Wallumrød increases his compositional control of the musical forces, now a sextet, at his disposal. This is music of the interior mind, which has an intensity fused to a melancholic beauty. It is mesmerizing, while existing at the boundary of composition and jazz. The quartet that ...
