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Kenny Wheeler: Gnu High
by Chris May
Trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Kenny Wheeler's exalted Gnu High, first released in 1976, is one of two albums with which ECM launches its audiophile vinyl reissue series, Luminessence, on April 28, 2023. The Luminessence mission statement is to showcase albums that have “changed perceptions of creative music making." And few would dispute this ...
Cruel But Fair
Album: Vagabond
By Dominic Miller
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:16
Ralph Towner: At First Light
by Cary Tenenbaum
If you love the sound of the acoustic guitar, do yourself a favour and listen to this recording. Place the record on the turntable, slip the CD in the tray, press play on your streaming service, turn up the volume one notch higher than you might usually and close your eyes. As if by magic, guitarist ...
Fat Foot
Album: At First Light
By Ralph Towner
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:50
Enrico Rava: The Song Is You
by Richard J Salvucci
There are times when the reason for listening is that something is beautiful. What exactly qualifies as beautiful is one of the long-running controversies in Western philosophy, not a matter for amateur debate when the contributors include people such as Hume, Kant, or Hegel. Surely, above the pay grade of the average critic. Not ...
Mette Henriette: Drifting
by Mike Jurkovic
Dreamlike in construction and execution, Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette's second distinctive statement for ECM exudes a warm, innate ability to imbue the everyday and the invisible with a sense of calm that neither sedates nor fatigues. A quiet triumph, Drifting fashions fifteen soft, safe places for her wandering kin to take their rest. Akin ...
Mette Henriette: Drifting
by David Bruggink
With her self-titled double album debut in 2015, Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette arrived on ECM Records, and the international jazz scene, with an impressively assured artistic statement. On it she introduced her versatile technical skills, running the gamut from untamed skronk to near-silent breathing, all presented with her wintry perspective--a perfect fit for the chilly atmospheres that ...
Paul Giger: ars moriendi
by Mario Calvitti
Il violinista svizzero Paul Giger è uno degli artisti più originali e meno etichettabili nel catalogo ECM, dove è presente con sette titoli compreso questo recente ars moriendi, tutti molto diversi l'uno dall'altro. Il suo personale approccio alla musica che ha mostrato nei suoi album consiste in una combinazione di composizione e improvvisazione, mescolando antico e ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere
by Mike Jurkovic
Bobo Stenson first rose to recognition as a sideman and in-house pianist in the late '60s with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, vibraphonist Gary Burton, and saxophonist Charles Lloyd, among many others. But it was in 1971, alongside drummer Jon Christensen, that he established his subtle, humorous shadings and folkish, earthy style with Underwear (ECM). Yet Stenson's intimate ...
Stephan Micus: Thunder
by Mario Calvitti
Il polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus è sicuramente uno degli artisti contemporanei più originali, e non solo nel catalogo ECM dove è abbondantemente rappresentato con 25 album (compreso questo ultimo, pubblicato in concomitanza col settantesimo compleanno dell'artista) che costituiscono la quasi totalità della sua discografia. Ciò che lo rende assolutamente unico è il suo personalissimo approccio alla ...
