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Anouar Brahem: Thimar
by Larry Koenigsberg
Once again ECM expands the boundaries of jazz. This brings up the question of whether this music is jazz, and purists would argue that it's not: no blues, no standards, no drums. Why not go all the way and decry the absence of banjo and tuba? The fact is that there are elements of jazz here, ...
Carla Bley: Fancy Chamber Music
by Ian Nicolson
Carla Bley is sixty this year. Which factoid seems so far beyond the range of the probable that it's worth repeating to myself every time I listen to her astonishing compositions and equally astonishing ensembles. Bley's latest set, with the eight-piece band she named after the new recording (which did come first, chicken or...?), is as ...
Khmer
Label: ECM Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Khmer; Tlon; Access/Song of Sand I; On Stream; Platonic Years; Phum; Song of Sand II; Exit. Bonus disc: Song of Sand (Single Edit); Platonic Years (DJ Fjord Mix By The Herbaliser); Tlon (Dance Mix by Mental Overdrive); Song of Sand II (Coastal Warning Mix By Rockers Hi-Fi).
Points of View
By Dave Holland
Label: ECM Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: The balance; Mr. B; Bedouin trail; Metamorphos; Ario; Herbaceous; The benevolent one; Serenade
Dave Holland: Points of View
by Larry Koenigsberg
The eight compositions which make up Points of View are so varied that this in itself becomes a hallmark of Dave Holland's style here. Consistency instead comes from the interaction of the players, whom Holland's arrangements give ensemble roles during each other's solos; from the unusual instrumentation, used both for frank exoticism ("Bedouin Trail", “Serenade") and ...
Dave Holland: Points of View
by Douglas Payne
British bassist and jazz veteran Dave Holland (b. 1946) has refashioned his ever iconoclastic quintet to feature Steve Wilson's sax and Robin Eubank's trombone interacting with former Quintet partner Steve Nelson's pianistic vibes and Billy Kilson's aggressively sensitive drumming.Holland cites the guiding influence of Duke Ellington in his Points of View. And ...
Bjornstad/Darling/Christensen/Rypdal: The Sea II
by Glenn Astarita
Unsurprisingly, “The Sea II” is the follow up to the 1995 ECM recording, “The Sea”. Pianist Ketil Bjornstad enlists the same cast which is: Terje Rypdal: guitar, David Darling: cello and Jon Christensen on drums. This outing seems more fragmented than “The Sea”. Rypdal gets more space to stretch out but his soaring guitar pyrotechnics seem ...
