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Article: Album Review

Ralph Towner: At First Light

Read "At First Light" reviewed by Cary Tenenbaum

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 ...

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Song of the Day

Fat Foot

Album: At First Light
By Ralph Towner
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:50

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Article: Album Review

Enrico Rava: The Song Is You

Read "The Song Is You" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

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 ...

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Mette Henriette: Drifting

Read "Drifting" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

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 ...

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Mette Henriette: Drifting

Read "Drifting" reviewed by David Bruggink

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Giger: ars moriendi

Read "ars moriendi" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere

Read "Sphere" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Stephan Micus: Thunder

Read "Thunder" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

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 ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Peter Erskine Trio: As It Was

Read "Peter Erskine Trio: As It Was" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The box set you hold in your hands features three players who came together in an exceptional group to play some of the most compelling and exploratory piano trio music of the 20th Century's final decade. This threesome, led by Peter Erskine, released four albums recorded between July 1991 and July 1997: 1993's You Never Know, ...

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Article: Liner Notes

John Abercrombie: The First Quartet

Read "John Abercrombie: The First Quartet" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

With the release of Arcade (1979), Abercrombie Quartet (1980) and M (1981), John Abercrombie's entire ECM discography as a leader is finally available on CD. Looking back at these albums and their position in his oeuvre, they are revealed as seminal documents of Abercrombie's arrival as a distinctive writer, improvising guitarist and bandleader, delivering on the ...


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