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Manu Katche: Neighbourhood
by R. Emmet Sweeney
It's a quiet day in the Neighbourhood. Manu Katché's ECM debut understates everything with a calm reserve, threatening to fade into the background without a fight (or a sax squawk). Check out the titles: “Lullaby," “No Rush," and “Lovely Walk," all urging your fragile attention to wander from the lilting tune. But then Tomasz Stanko steps ...
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by John Kelman
Iro Haarla may not be particularly well-known, but the Finnish pianist/harpist's influence has been felt by anyone familiar with the work of her late husband, drummer Edward Vesala. According to saxophonist Trygve Seim--who not only played with Vesala towards the end of his life, but is also part of Haarla's quintet on her ECM debut, Northbound--Haarla ...
Terje Rypdal: Vossabrygg
by John Kelman
You don't need to know that Vossabyrgg means literally “Vossa Brew" to recognize this homage to the late trumpeter Miles Davis. From the first notes of “Ghostdancing"--which quotes directly from “Pharoah's Dance" on Miles' 1970 classic, Bitches Brew--it's clear that Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal is mining turf similar to early records like What Comes After (ECM, ...
Manu Katche: Neighbourhood
by Nenad Georgievski
Neighborhood, Manu Katché's ECM debut, is full of wonders. The drummer is joined by his old comrade Jan Garbarek (saxophone) and Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), as well as Marcin Wasilewski (piano) and Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass), who are part of Stanko's quartet. The band creates music full of small epiphanies and the seductive warmth that is typical of ...
Marc Johnson: Shades of Jade
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il contrabbassista Marc Johnson conosce bene l'arte di attendere l'ispirazione senza piegarsi alla ignobile fretta dettata dalle strategie di mercato. Questo Shades of Jade arriva dopo un periodo di silenzio quasi sabbatico e celebra in particolar modo un sodalizio importante con la pianista brasiliana Eliane Elias che è certamente la voce principale che emerge dai dieci ...
Enrico Rava: Tati
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con la ripresa del suo sodalizio con la ECM Enrico Rava sembra aver recuperato lo smalto dei bei tempi. Lo testimoniano una felice vena compositiva, un solismo ispirato e come sempre sostenuto da argute invenzioni melodiche, una nitidezza di suono assolutamente conforme alla estetica della prestigiosa casa discografica tedesca. In questo senso, Easy Living, inciso in ...
Manu Katche': Neighbourhood
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il primo disco a nome del batterista Manu Katche', noto in ambito pop per le sue collaborazioni con Peter Gabriel, Sting e Youssou n'Dour ed in quello jazz per i lavori con Jan Garbarek, arriva dopo molti anni di carriera, sotto l'egida della ECM e con le modalita' care a Manfred Eicher, che gli affianca, oltre ...
Paul Motian Band: Garden Of Eden
by Chris May
On Garden Of Eden, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band shortens its name and lengthens its stride to present a new artistic agenda. Recalibrations of the bop and hard bop repertoires stay on the bill, but only in a supporting role: the main event now is original material, most of it composed by Motian. (Nine of the ...
Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden
by Budd Kopman
If Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude had been put to music, it might have sounded like Garden of Eden. That novel has a feeling of timelessness, fecund vegetation, thick air, filtered sunlight, and a natural beauty that is almost frightening in its immediacy and intensity. The history of this group goes ...
Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden
by John Kelman
A recent bulletin board poster suggested that “any human being's imagination and creative thinking wanes with age." Considering how many artists in their sixties and beyond remain not only vital, but are creating some of their best work, it's an easy supposition to refute. Drummer Paul Motian is the perfect example--despite some travel restrictions due to ...
