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Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by Dan McClenaghan
Call this music tango if you must--and the title track of the Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner set, Ojos Negros, is a tango tune from the pen of Vincente Greco. But this duet set, Saluzzi's bandoneon in a fluid, airy dance with Anja Lecher's cello, might better be categorized as “just music."The two instruments, individually, make ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by C. Michael Bailey
There is a continuum in jazz, as in most music genera, which extends from the most rigidly defined and precisely contained performance to the antithetically free and fully open recital. To offer examples of the former, one might consider swing era big band music of the Glenn Miller ilk. The latter is embodied in John Coltrane's ...
Robin Williamson: The Iron Stone
by John Kelman
Scottish singer/multi-instrumentalist Robin Williamson continues to mine the nexus of traditional song and free improvisation on The Iron Stone. Back from Skirting the River Road (ECM, 2002) are Mat Maneri (viola and Hardanger fiddle) and Swedish traditionalist Ale Möller (on a plethora of instruments plucked, pressed or blown), while renowned bassist Barre Phillips makes his first ...
Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert
by Nenad Georgievski
Keith Jarrett really has created a whole new genre of music with his solo piano improvisations. The now legendary Köln Concert (ECM, 1975) is considered to be the mother of all solo instrumental albums, and with good reason. Despite hundreds of similar recordings in recent years, too many wanna-be imitators remain just cheap imitations. Even after ...
Stefano Battaglia: Re: Pasolini
by AAJ Italy Staff
Secondo album di Battaglia per l'ECM, secondo album doppio. Segno che l'etichetta crede nel pianista, da sempre molto aderente all'estetica di casa ECM. Il tema dell'album è l'opera di Pasolini, forse l'ultimo vero intellettuale che l'Italia ha avuto. Artista poliedrico, versatile, multiforme, capace di utilizzare gli strumenti più disparati (la prosa, la poesia, il cinema, il ...
Stephan Micus: On the Wing
by John Kelman
Stephan Micus' last album, Life (ECM, 2004), represented the multi-instrumentalist's most ambitious vocal album to date, layering as many as 14 voices at once. On the Wing represents a complete departure, his first entirely instrumental album in 17 years. The painstaking piecing together of many layers of multiple instruments (with Micus performing every part, creating solo ...
Gianluigi Trovesi: Vaghissimo Ritratto
by John Kelman
If “spontaneous composition," rather than the term “free improvisation," suggests the ability to collectively grab apparent form from the ether, then Italian woodwind multi-instrumentalist Gianluigi Trovesi's Vaghissimo Ritratto deserves to be cited as one of its clearest examples. Teamed with pianist Umberto Petrin, with whom Trovesi has worked in the Italian Instabile Orchestra, and percussionist Fulvio ...
Anat Fort: A Long Story
by J Hunter
My first exposure to the ECM milieu--the singular look, the sharp sound, the hypnotic music--was with Keith Jarrett's 1975 opus The Köln Concert. After longtime immersion in my parents' West Coast-intensive record collection, this amazing work of crystalline beauty hit me like French New Wave hits an American movie buff. Some guy named Manfred Eicher was ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Terzo album per questo stellare quartetto, sulla carta capitanato dal chitarrista John Abercrombie (autore di quasi tutte le composizioni), ma di fatto assolutamente paritetico con Mark Feldman al violino, Marc Johnson al contrabbasso e Joey Baron alla batteria. Del resto, quando ci si confronta con musicisti di questo calibro, tutte stelle di prima grandezza del firmamento ...
Pierre Favre Ensemble: Fleuve
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine that a group as bottom-heavy as percussionist Pierre Favre's new ensemble could actually sound light and ethereal. But Fleuve does just that. With a septet featuring two basses, tuba/serpent, percussion and, at times, bass clarinet, there's no shortage of warmth and depth. But with guitar, harp and soprano saxophone fleshing out the ...
