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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Jazz is not a competitive sport and “Best Ofs" are misnomers. End of the year listicles have no bearing on the artistic standing of the albums they include, or on those they neglect, just like a five star review doesn't make the album it graces any better than it already is. But, apparently, humans ...

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Article: Album Review

Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale

Read "Edizione Speciale" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

At the time of this fascinating live gig from 2019, trumpeter/flugelhornist/composer/mentor Enrico Rava, at 80 years of age, hadn't lost his knack for catching you off guard. Take “Infant" from Edizione Speciale as a prime example and let the rest of the disc sweep you off your perceptions. “Infant" emerges from a lone Rava ...

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Article: Album Review

Craig Taborn: Shadow Plays

Read "Shadow Plays" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

Recorded with stunning clarity of sound and a brave vision, at Vienna's Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus in March 2020, Craig Taborn's visceral variations on a theme and quixotic poetics rise and fall majestically on Shadow Plays, a bold, fully-rendered successor to his last solo ECM outing Avenging Angel (2011) The rapturously inquisitive Taborn ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios: November 2021

Read "3x3: Piano Trios: November 2021" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

Ayumi Tanaka Trio Subaqueous Silence ECM Records 2021 Ayumi Tanaka isn't kidding with this impressionistic title. The music here isn't very far removed from silence, and its ebbing and drifting has just the formlessness you'd expect from life at the bottom of a sea or lake. Pretty sparse and abstract ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Cyrille: The News

Read "The News" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

There is no denying the significance of Andrew Cyrille's oft-cited association with Cecil Taylor, not to mention his collaborations with other avant-garde luminaries such as Walt Dickerson, Ahmed Abdul Malik and Marion Brown. However, such reductive narratives tend to overlook Cyrille's own, fairly extensive output as a leader, beginning with What About? (BYG Actuel, 1971). Whilst ...

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Article: Album Review

Eberhard Weber: Once Upon A Time - Live in Avignon

Read "Once Upon A Time - Live in Avignon" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Once Upon A Time-Live in Avignon is the fourth release of ECM-sourced material from the celebrated German bassist Eberhard Weber whose 2007 stroke left him unable to play. Résumé (2012) consisted of bass solos extracted and re-engineered from Weber's work with Jan Garbarek. Encore (2015) followed a similar formula with seventeen years of bass solos mixed ...

Article: Album Review

Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale

Read "Edizione Speciale" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Nel 2019 Enrico Rava ha tagliato il nobile traguardo degli ottant'anni. Lo ha fatto con la leggerezza densa di sostanza, di sensibilità che hanno sempre distinto il suo operato. In questo documento proveniente da un concerto in Belgio, all'Antwerp Jazz Middelheim Festival, si avverte tutta la baldanza della spontaneità, della estroversione che scatta spesso nei rapporti ...

Article: Album Review

Andrew Cyrille Quartet: The News

Read "The News" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti

Con una carriera che attraversa gli ultimi 60 anni di storia del jazz, dall'alto dei suoi 80 anni (compiuti un paio di mesi dopo le sessioni di registrazione di questo disco nel 2019), il veterano batterista Andrew Cyrille non ha alcun timore di mettersi ancora in gioco, come aveva già dimostrato pochi anni fa con il ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Johnson: Overpass

Read "Overpass" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti

I dischi di solo contrabbasso non sono così frequenti come quelli di altri strumenti che maggiormente si prestano a essere suonati senza accompagnamento, ma nel catalogo ECM ne sono presenti diversi fin dai primi anni di vita dell'etichetta, dovuti soprattutto a Barre Phillips e Dave Holland (presenti anche con un duo), oltre che a Eberhard Weber, ...

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Article: Album Review

Craig Taborn: Shadow Plays

Read "Shadow Plays" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

La duttilità stilistica, la capacità di costruire improvvisazione con logica ad ampio respiro, la tenace attitudine esplorativa, la tecnica sopraffina fanno di Craig Taborn una figura di spicco della musica contemporanea. Lo conferma questa nuova prova in piano solo, pubblicata da ECM a dieci anni di distanza dal precedente Avenging Angel, sempre stampato dall'etichetta di Monaco, ...


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