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John Abercrombie: Open Land
by C. Andrew Hovan
Truth be told, John Abercrombie has always been one of the more neglected players of his generation. He's never done the more commercial types of things that have brought fellow guitarists like Pat Metheny a broader audience base, and yet the irony is that his adventurous style and sound was the forerunner of such current underground ...
Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Not Two, Not One
by C. Andrew Hovan
In a league by himself, pianist Paul Bley's art is one that has involved taking the road less traveled. He uses the jazz vocabulary in a way that is distinctive and varies from the norm, much in the manner that Hemingway or Gertrude Stein created sentences and paragraphs that skirted typical conventions. For this new ECM ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Nine To Get Ready
by Glenn Astarita
Nine To Get Ready is Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory which is an aggregate of modern day jazz stylists well known for improvisational abilities and equally at home in a structured environment. To quote Mitchell from the liners......”Nine To Get Ready is the coming together of a dream I had many years ago of putting ...
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble: Mnemosyne
by Ian Nicolson
Half a decade ago, the visionary in Manfred Eicher met the marketing man head-on and the first collaboration between ECM's most popular artists - and an album called Officium - bridged the outwardly alien worlds of mediaeval ecclesiastical vocal harmony and Jazz saxophone. Garbarek's purity and economy of sound and his independence from the rhythmic history ...
Jan Garbarek: Rites
by Robert Spencer
This sprawling new double CD by Jan Garbarek is an apotheosis of the vision and approach he has pursued more or less single-mindedly for almost thirty years now. Virtually all the roads he has visited in the past are revisited, in one way or another, here, and in as crisply competent and subtly virtuosic a fashion ...
Keith Jarrett: Tokyo '96
by C. Andrew Hovan
Little did pianist Keith Jarrett probably know that when he got together with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette to cut a trio album of standards back in 1983 that he was creating an ensemble that would become a standard in itself. Now with over a dozen albums under its belt, the Jarrett Trio celebrates ...
Anouar Brahem: Thimar
by Glenn Astarita
The oud is an ancient short-necked, plucked Arabic instrument. On Thimar, East meets West with oud instrumentalist Anouar Brahem along with jazz masters, saxophonist/bass clarinetist John Surman and bassist Dave Holland. The opener, “Badhra," commences with Surman's light as a feather soprano work while Holland and Brahem successively join the festivities as if they were doing ...
Jan Garbarek: Rites
by Glenn Astarita
It’s hard to disagree with the companion press release, which suggests that “Rites” is a World Music effort. Jan Garbarek explores his “rites of passages” and takes us on a journey that shadows Garbarek’s personal observations and life experiences. Here, Garbarek expands upon his 1996 ECM release “Visible World” with clearer output and perhaps a more ...
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 ...
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