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Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff
by Karl Ackermann
From the time of his debut as a leader nearly twenty years ago on Architextures (Asian Improv Records, 1996), pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has been a great experimenter. The Albany, New York native successfully utilized duplicated patterns and phrasing in a variety of settings from solo piano to ensembles. Advanced as his earlier techniques were, ...
Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff
by John Kelman
When it comes to jazz/improvised music, there are those who, like pianist Keith Jarrett, prefer to approach it with a blank slate, clearing their minds of everything in order to find a way to pull form from the ether. Then there are those who spend considerable time formulating their approach, and coming up with a philosophy, ...
Charles Lloyd Signs To Blue Note
More than 50 years into an already legendary career, 2015 is shaping up to be a momentous year for Charles Lloyd. As reported today in The New York Times, the esteemed saxophonist and composer has signed with Blue Note Records and will release his first album for the iconic label in 30 years with the April ...
Jack DeJohnette: Made in Chicago
by Giuseppe Segala
Periodicamente, seppure con rara frequenza, i protagonisti delle ricerche e dei fermenti musicali legati alla città di Chicago negli anni Sessanta si ritrovano e incrociano di nuovo i propri strumenti. Quando la Experimental Band di Muhal Richard Abrams rappresentò un momento catalizzatore di giovani talenti voraci di musica e pronti all'esplorazione, sfociata poi nella meravigliosa esperienza ...
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities
by Angelo Leonardi
Con questo disco Chris Potter realizza l'opera finora più significativa della sua attività artistica, il punto di arrivo del suo magistrale talento di sassofonista e delle esperienze svolte nell'ultimo decennio come compositore e leader. Secondo disco realizzato per l'etichetta ECM dopo The Sirens -concept album in quintetto del 2013 ispirato all'Odissea-Imaginary Cities presenta una ...
Tomasz Stanko: Leosia
by Budd Kopman
Recorded in 1996 and released in 1997, Leosia is not only one of the high points of trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's forty-year career, but one of the absolute gems in the ECM catalogue, twenty years removed from his first ECM recording, Balladyna. The album itself is one of those things that just seems perfect from ...
Kenny Wheeler: Songs for Quintet
by John Kelman
With the passing of Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler--Kenny Wheeler to his legion of friends and fans--the world lost yet another significant figure in the history of jazz from the mid-'60s through to the second decade of the new millennium, the artist that Norma Winstone (more often than not his singer of choice) called “the Duke Ellington ...
Kenny Wheeler: Songs for Quintet
by Ian Patterson
In the end, time--as is its wont--caught up with Kenny Wheeler, the much-loved Canadian-born trumpeter/flugelhornist and composer who made England his home for over sixty years. Happily, he was able to hear the results of the two-day Abbey Road sessions that produced, Songs for Quintet before he passed away last September 18. These Wheeler originals reveal ...
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian: Hamburg '72
by Luca Canini
Un paio di premesse. Doverose: per onestà intellettuale e per profondità di campo. La prima: da un pezzo ho smesso di emozionarmi per l'ennesimo disco di Keith Jarrett. Gli ultimi flebili sussulti risalgono al 2000, al doppio Whisper Not, prova di gran classe pur nell'ambito di un virtuosismo che da tempo si era ...
Gallery: Gallery
by John Kelman
GalleyGalleryECM Records1982 Today's discovery is in my top 10 list of albums screaming for first-time issue on CD by Munich's venerable ECM Records. Gallery was a one-off, teaming vibraphonist Dave Samuels and Oregon's Paul McCandless with cellist David Darling, bassist Ratzo Harris and Michael Di Pasqua--a drummer who, with a resume ...
