Results for "ECM Records"

Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai Release Playing The Room on ECM Records. Out Now!

September 6, 2019

Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan recently making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums on ECM. Their first duo recording begins with music composed by ...

Silent Fires

Silent Fires is a cross-genre intermixture of lyrics and acoustic-electronic fragments, all merged into written and improvised soundscapes. Their debut album #Forests is a collective exploration around the theme of spirituality in its multiple meanings. The band reunites four young emerging talents from the European improvised music scene: singer Karoline Wallace, trumpeter/soundscaper Hilde Marie Holsen, violinist Håkon Aase and pianist Alessandro Sgobbio. Silent Fires performs and improvises on stage with contemporary dancer Synne Garvik, offering a multi-art experience of improvised music and realtime choreography.

Michele Rabbia - Gianluca Petrella - Eivind Aarset: Lost River

by Geno Thackara
August 24, 2019

There is a bewitching soundscape from a group of subtle and skilled aural sculptors on this beautifully abstract ECM Records session. The players' backgrounds touch on jazz, electronics, European folk and much more, but none of that really matters here. Their approach on Lost River is free of form and convention in the most liberating sense. ...

Stephan Micus: White Night

by Mario Calvitti
July 31, 2019

Giunto al ventitreesimo album per la ECM, il musicista tedesco Stephan Micus non cambia la formula a cui si è attenuto per la maggior parte delle sue realizzazioni discografiche. Anche questo lavoro consiste in una raccolta di brani costruiti attorno a una selezione di strumenti etnici da lui personalmente raccolti nel corso dei suoi numerosi viaggi ...

Michele Rabbia/Gianluca Petrella/Eivind Aarset: Lost River

by Mark Sullivan
July 7, 2019

The ECM catalog includes a broad range of musical genres: the only things they have in common are a forward outlook and excellent musicianship. But there are some that are truly beyond category, and this largely improvised album is one of them. Italian percussionist Michele Rabbia, Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella and Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset came ...

Paul Bley: When Will The Blues Leave

by John Ephland
June 26, 2019

Ornette Coleman recorded “When Will The Blues Leave" in early 1958, released the next year on Something Else!!!! (Contemporary). Paul Bley played Coleman's blues four years later on The Floater Syndrome (Savoy Records), a trio recording with bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Pete La Roca. Both versions--Coleman's in a quintet with trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Don ...

Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia: La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana

by Alberto Bazzurro
June 24, 2019

A trent'anni più o meno esatti dal concerto che ne decretò la nascita (Tortona, 18 luglio 1989), il duo Trovesi/Coscia pubblica quello che è (solo) il suo album n. 5 (di cui quattro, dopo l'iniziale Radici, edito da Egea, su etichetta ECM) e lo fa nel nome di Umberto Eco, di cui Gianni Coscia fu amico ...

Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian: When Will The Blues Leave

by Mike Jurkovic
June 8, 2019

The first posthumous Bley release since his passing in 2016, When Will The Blues Leave is a true dance of inquisitive equals. Recorded live at Lugano's Aula Magna in Switzerland in March of 1999, Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian celebrate their decades-long friendship and the virtuoso inspiration first heard on the trio's ever-exquisite reunion ...

Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Other Side

by Neri Pollastri
June 6, 2019

Undici anni dopo Being There il pianista norvegese Tord Gustavsen torna a registrare in trio, formazione che aveva preferito non affrontare più dopo la scomparsa di Harald Johnson, il contrabbassista che lo aveva sempre accompagnato assieme al batterista Jarle Vespestad. Adesso, con l'ingresso di Sigurd Hole, Gustavsen si riavvicina alla forma che l'aveva lanciato e lo ...

Keith Jarrett: J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I

by Karl Ackermann
June 4, 2019

Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the clavier was--at that time--a broad description taking in the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. The Well-Tempered Clavier--Book I is a live version of ...