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Trio Beyond: Saudades
by C. Andrew Hovan
Over the course of the fifty-some years that he was on this planet, drummer Tony Williams made his mark on the world of jazz through innovation and creativity in a way that few had done before him and even fewer have accomplished since his untimely death in 1998. Highly lauded by critics and fans alike, Williams' ...
The Source: The Source
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Ornette sotto ghiaccio”: questo viene in mente ascoltando le prime tracce di questo eccellente disco di The Source, quartetto scandinavo attivo dal 1993 e giunto al secondo disco per ECM, che include il sassofonista Trygve Seim, ormai sempre più onnipresente protagonista della scena nordica. Il gruppo, infatti, oltre a presentarsi molto simile già nella formazione al ...
Dino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori
by John Kelman
Anyone still laboring under the misapprehension that there's an “ECM sound" need only look at the live film score retrospective of Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou's Elegy of the Uprooting, the improvisational classicism of French pianist François Couturier's Nostalghia--Song for Tarkovsky and Argentinean bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi's Juan Condori--all released on the same day. These three recordings couldn't ...
Eleni Karaindrou: Elegy of the Uprooting
by John Kelman
Some film scores only work in conjunction with the movie. However, composers like Bernard Hermann and Ennio Morricone have created scores that also succeed as independent pieces of music. For over twenty years, Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has been scoring films, most notably for director Theo Angelopoulos. For the past fifteen years ECM has been documenting ...
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by John Kelman
Sight and sound are often inexorably linked. In the earliest days of silent film, musicians would provide live accompaniment to images on a screen. While scoring cinema has become an integral part of the visual narrative, music as homage to film is less common. Pianist François Couturier--familiar to ECM fans for his work with oudist Anouar ...
Kayhan Kalhor: The Wind
by Budd Kopman
In an exquisite moment on Kayhan Kalhor's last recorded collaboration, The Rain (ECM, 2003), tabla player Sandeep Das hits an “out" note on his tuned drum. This momentarily shocks Kalhor and sitarist Shujaat Khan, but soon brings a smiling murmur when he repeats it as if to say, “I meant that." The two soloists, Kalhor (from ...
Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert
by Jason Crane
Three minutes and 22 seconds into “Part 3" of The Carnegie Hall Concert, pianist Keith Jarrett uses one of his trademark vocalizations as a second instrument, elevating the stately piece into a gorgeous anthem that grabs the attention and lifts the spirit. Then, a few seconds later, he stops. It's hard to decide which moment is ...
Mark Feldman: What Exit
by John Kelman
If we are the sum of our experiences, then Mark Feldman represents an exceptional aggregate. The classically trained violinist is closely associated with the New York Downtown scene, where there seems to be few, if any, musical boundaries. He may be best known for collaborations with artists like John Zorn, Dave Douglas and John Abercrombie, but ...
Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert
by John Kelman
With the release of Radiance (ECM, 2005), Keith Jarrett made a triumphant return to improvised solo piano performance. The 2002 recording was the first live solo piano performance to be released since La Scala (ECM, 1997), and it reflected a change in Jarrett's approach to solo improvisation. That change continues on The Carnegie Hall Concert, a ...
Kayhan Kalhor: The Wind
by John Kelman
Improvisation isn't strictly the purview of jazz, although it's certainly one of the genre's defining foundations. But it's also an area of fertile exploration for artists operating far outside its conventions. Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Kayhan Kalhor has been exploring the improvisational possibilities at the nexus of Persian and North Indian music for nearly a ...
