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Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by Budd Kopman
What is this music? What genre does it inhabit? What label best suits it? Nik Bärtsch himself calls it Zen-funk, and it easily could fit the trance label, but only at times. Reichian or Glassian minimalism springs to mind, but again only at times. Calling it progressive rock would be a gigantic stretch. Is it jazz, ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by Chris May
From out of nowhere, Switzerland--best known in the jazz community for hosting the increasingly irrelevant Montreux Jazz Festival, whose headliners for 2006 include Simply Red, Solomon Burke, Deep Purple, Sting and Bryan Adams--seems suddenly to be turning out some seriously intrepid and innovative young players. In the space of a few weeks, we've been introduced, first, ...
Ralph Towner: Time Line
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In an essay about Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges asserted that great writers create their precursors. Guitarist Ralph Towner makes no secret about the influence of pianist Bill Evans on his musical style. He places “My Man's Gone Now at the end of this new solo recital, raising expectations of an Evans-like record. (Evans didn't compose the ...
Charles Lloyd: Sangam
by Matt Cibula
At this juncture in his life and career, Charles Lloyd has become untouchable. His tone is so full of depth that it sounds good to nearly everyone who hears it; his scope is so broad that he can never be accused of coasting, yet he remains fundamentally listenable, so no one can throw labels like “obscurantist" ...
Anouar Brahem: Le Voyage de Sahar
by Nenad Georgievski
Many of ECM's standout albums are a result of rich confluences of jazz, classical and world music sensibilities. The authors of those albums have a thorough, deep knowledge and understanding of each tradition, and most of the time the intersections between the different traditions are blessed with good results. Such is the case with Anouar Brahem. ...
Bobo Stenson/Anders Jormin/Paul Motian: Goodbye
by Terrell Kent Holmes
The title of this release has a type of finality to it, especially considering the somberness of the tunes therein. This is meticulously crafted jazz, atmospheric and full of spare landscapes. Pianist Bobo Stenson, bassist Anders Jormin and the wonderfully restless drummer Paul Motian play with imagination and economy, Stenson with a facility and tenderness that ...
Anouar Brahem: Le Voyage de Sahar
by John Kelman
Anouar Brahem's last international release, Le Pas du Chat Noir (ECM, 2002), was something of a watershed for the Tunisian oudist. Earlier records like Khomsa (ECM, 1995) and Thimar (ECM, 1998) found him exploring the nexus between traditional Middle Eastern harmonies and a more open-minded improvisational approach with artists like reed player John Surman, bassists Dave ...
Charles Lloyd: Sangam
by John Kelman
Musicians at saxophonist Charles Lloyd's level of artistry rarely, if ever, have a bad night. Some times out are better than others, though, and based on this live recording, May 23, 2004 was clearly one of those evenings. Which Way is East (ECM, 2004), a series of intimate duets Lloyd recorded with Billy Higgins a few ...
Terje Rypdal: Vossabrygg
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista norvegese Terje Rypdal è certamente uno degli artisti più longevi sulla scena della musica creativa, con una lunga militanza iniziata nei primissimi anni sessanta nel paese natale, con il gruppo The Vanguards. Un progetto di successo modellato su gruppi inglesi e americani coevi come gli Shadows e i Ventures, cavalieri di quel rock strumentale ...
Anouar Brahem Trio: Le Voyage de Sahar
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Tunisian master Anouar Brahem plays the oud, an eleven or twelve-string lute at the center of small-group Arabic classical music; he has impressive credentials in the jazz domain, having recorded with Jan Garbarek, John Surman and David Holland. Le Voyage de Sahar is Brahem's eighth original ECM release as a leader, and his second with a ...
