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Dave Holland: Rarum X: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
Bassist and bandleader Dave Holland's career is oddly yet movingly outlined in this collection. Since the artist is responsible for the eleven tunes culled from ten various albums, I have to assume there was a sound reason for neglecting to include anything from What Goes Around, his forceful 2002 big band session featuring many of his ...
John Abercrombie: Class Trip
by John Kelman
Guitarist John Abercrombie's last record, 2002's Cat 'n' Mouse , as good as it was, was as much an announcement, a promise, a consolidation and move in a new direction that was hinted at by 1999's Open Land. Signalling the arrival of a new quartet featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, ...
Jon Christensen: Rarum XX: Selected Recordings
by Jerry D'Souza
One of the features of the ECM's Rarum series is that the artist chooses the tracks. Jon Christensen has contributed to 51 albums and it is interesting that he has chosen three tracks from Keith Jarrett records and two from Ralph Towner. There is one difference. The Jarrett albums have the same musicians; but of the ...
Marilyn Crispell Trio: Storyteller
by AAJ Staff
At the same time Marilyn Crispell's music is flowing and lyrical, it's also wrapped in mystery and darkness. That combination served the pianist well on her two recent ECM trio records, Amaryllis (2001) and Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (1997), alongside bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian. Mark Helias steps in as bassist this time around, ...
Egberto Gismonti: Rarum XI: Selected Recordings
by Michael P. Gladstone
Along with eleven others, ECM's Rarum Series has recently chosen to visit the works of the Brazilian musician/composer/ethno-musicologist Egberto Gismonti. After 27 years of recording for this label, Gismonti remains a quixotic and innovative contributor to his countrymen and a worldwide audience. Originally trained as a pianist, he adapted keyboard techniques for his customized ...
Carla Bley: Rarum XV: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
ECM has recorded the gifted and goofy composer and keyboardist Carla Bley for three decades, and this single disc career retrospective is a brilliantly compiled testimony to the breath and depth of Bley's singular talent. Until Bley, humor in jazz was primitively realized at best (e.g. vaudeville antics of Slim & Slam, Dizzy's hipster's jokes). She ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by Mark F. Turner
Which Way Is East documents a simply magical recording between two lifelong musicians and friends: saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Billy Higgins. The recording is significant for a number of reasons. Besides the musical affinity the two musicians shared, a spiritual bond also permeated their music. Having collaborated many years on numerous projects their recent efforts ...
Paul Motian: Rarum XVI: Selected Recordings
by Joshua Weiner
Paul Motian is best known to most jazz fans as the drummer in perhaps the greatest piano trio ever: the one led by Bill Evans in 1960-1961, which also included bassist Scott LaFaro. But that was a long time ago, and Motian has moved on and explored new realms over three decades as a leader. His ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by John Kelman
There has always been an inherent spiritual element in Charles Lloyd's work, but nowhere as overt as on Which Way is East , a series of duets recorded with drummer and, as it turns out, multi-instrumentalist Billy Higgins, who passed away only four months after these sessions were recorded. In the liner notes Higgins is quoted ...
Arild Andersen: Rarum XIX: Selected Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
Arild Andersen’s career as a bassist of high regard without much public notoriety, particularly in North America, is explored on this latest ECM reissue. Like the rest of the Rarum series, the label turns the reins over to the artist in choosing from their various ECM sides and has the subject artist write the liner notes—Andersen’s ...
