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ECM Records Releases Single By Chick Corea Recorded At The Gilmore International Piano Festival
Dr. Pierre van der Westhuizen, Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore, announced today the premiere release of The Visitors, a Chick Corea duet work written for vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Kirill Gerstein— two masters of their instruments and in their respective fields. Commissioned by Gerstein (2010 Gilmore Artist) with funding from The Gilmore and ...
Stephan Micus: To the Rising Moon
by Mario Calvitti
Puntualmente, seguendo un rituale che ci accompagna ormai da qualche decennio con una cadenza regolare approssimativamente biennale, è arrivato il nuovo album del polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus, che aggiunge un nuovo capitolo (il ventiseiesimo su etichetta ECM) al suo personalissimo atlante di geografia musicale immaginaria, frutto delle sue continue esplorazioni nel mondo delle musiche e culture ...
Sean Imboden: Communal Heart
by Dean Nardi
Sean Imboden's Large Ensemble Has a Communal Heart Sean Imboden was bitten by the big band bug early on. It is understandable. Both his parents were musicians, and his father taught him to play clarinet when he was in sixth grade. As a teenager, besides playing in middle school and high school bands, he sometimes sat ...
Keith Jarrett: New Vienna
by Jack Kenny
The evening began with extraordinary anticipation as the Golden Hall filled to capacity, creating an atmosphere of reverent expectation for what many in the audience understood would be a rare opportunity to hear one of jazz's most celebrated improvisers in an optimal acoustic environment. However, the concert's opening moments quickly revealed the dynamics that often characterize ...
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un pezzo a testa dei due performers e firmatari del disco e gli altri quattro a paternità condivisa compongono questo puzzle a due voci in cui si respira un'aria quanto mai composta, quasi raggelata (almeno a tratti), volatile, persino un po' dispersiva, quanto meno nelle parti (per nulla rare) in cui Iyer abbandona lo strumento acustico ...
Keith Jarrett: New Vienna
by Mike Jurkovic
What accolade has not been heaped upon the eighty-year-old Keith Jarrett and the music he has bestowed upon the world? So, without embarrassing and overbearing hyperbole, New Vienna is another of those very special recordings Jarrett sculpts from silence with an integral artistry and frequency that, some fifty-odd years after he began this solo journey, still ...
Joe Lovano: Homage
by Alberto Bazzurro
Decolla sognante, aereo, quasi astratto, il nuovo album di Joe Lovano, che recupera per l'occasione il sodalizio con l'efficientissimo trio “made in Poland" di Marcin Wasilewski (l'incisione risale al novembre 2023). Sei i brani, tutti del sassofonista di Cleveland tranne il primo, “Love in the Garden" di Zbigniew Seifert, leggendario violinista di Cracovia morto poco più ...
Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
by Mario Calvitti
Fin dal suo esordio la musica del suonatore di oud tunisino Anouar Brahem ha oscillato tra i tre poli della musica tradizionale classica araba, l'improvvisazione jazzistica e la musica classica europea di stampo cameristico, generalmente adattando le quantità di ogni singolo componente ai musicisti scelti per interpretarla. Dopo i primi due album nei quali ...
Piano Plus: Two Enhanced Solo Piano Sets
by Dan McClenaghan
Is the piano enough? Keith Jarrett, notably, made a big name for himself with his improvised solo piano outings. Jessica Williams composed, in real time, making magic alone at the keyboard. Fred Hersch has crafted masterpieces in the solo piano mode. The ever-versatile Brad Mehldau has produced many shining moments sitting down alone at the piano. ...
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico with Lamia Bedioui: Watersong
by Katchie Cartwright
Watersong is the fifth album on ECM for the extraordinary Greek world-music and free-jazz singer Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico, her splendid Athens-based ensemble: Kostas Vomvolos on qanun and accordion, Harris Lambrakis on nay, Kyriakos Gouventas on violin, Yannis Alexandris on oud, Michalis Siganidis on double bass and Dine Doneff on percussion. The album also ...
