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André Carvalho: The Garden Of Earthly Delights
by Friedrich Kunzmann
When eyeing the triptych oil painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Renaissance painter Hieronymous Bosch, the observer often drifts off and zooms in on a very specific segment of the painting. Defined by opposing themes and motifs, the eye wanders from left to right, from Adam and Eve in peaceful nature, over birds and buildings ...
Thomas Dahl & Court: Quilter
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Liner notes very elaborately explain the main musical concept that defines guitarist Thomas Dahl's first release with his own band, Quilter. Layers. Phrases are introduced by one instrument, then picked up and turned around by another while soaring guitar cries enter and find accompaniment by polyrhythmic percussion on drums. Though, here, accompanying doesn't only go in ...
Terkel Nørgaard: With Ralph Alessi
by Pat Youngspiel
Danish drummer and composer Terkel Nørgaard had American trumpeter Ralph Alessi in mind for this project even while writing and developing the 21 sketches, of which seven ultimately made it onto the rumbling and rolling of positive energy that is the accordingly-titled With Ralph Alessi. The ECM aesthetic, which Ralph Alessi is known for, is omnipresent ...
Chris Lomheim - Michael O'Brien - Jay Epstein: Triage
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Triage refers to the process of weeding-out, deciding about what gets eliminated, on the one hand, and what stays, on the other. In the context of this album, its title can be interpreted as the process these three musicians have gone through during the course of over twenty years of collaborating, captured on the eleven original ...
Maureen Choi Quartet: Theia
by Friedrich Kunzmann
On the third outing with her quartet, American violinist and composer Maureen Choi perfects the style she has been developing over the past albums with much love for detail and an awareness of the catchy and the danceable. In a mix of originals and interpretations of Spanish and Latin American classics, Choi's quartet presents over an ...
Johnathan Blake: Trion
by Friedrich Kunzmann
The names making up this trio really don't need further explanation, seeing how they belong to some of the leading jazz musicians in their respective fields: for Trion , drummer and composer Johnathan Blake relies on the adventurousness of the highly acclaimed bass virtuoso Linda May Han Oh and saxophonist Chris Potter, who together form a ...
Tobias Meinhart: Berlin People
by Friedrich Kunzmann
For this outing as a leader, New York-based saxophonist Tobias Meinhart has assembled a team of musicians who are all based in Berlin and have studied under Kurt Rosenwinkel. The guitarist, another Berliner, is featured on just over half of the nine, highly melodic and mostly original compositions. Within that tuneful paradigm, the material ...
Anders Jormin: Poems For Orchestra
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Swedish bassist and composer Anders Jormin has been recording since the mid 1980s, playing with greats such as his countryman Bobo Stenson, American saxophonist Charles Lloyd and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko among others. Since his debut as a leader for ECM in 2001, he has kept close to the label. But the concept on Poems for ...
Philipp Schiepek: Golem Dance
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Melodic ease, harmonic subtlety and an intriguingly dispersed approach to compositional structure make up the winning trinity of this enjoyable debut recording by German guitarist and composer Philipp Schiepek. Most impressively, these aspects belong to the qualities one would expect a 24-year young jazz guitarist to have mastered the least at this point in their career. ...
Losen Records in for a strong 2019
by Friedrich Kunzmann
There's a new stirring in Norway's current jazz scene. At the center of this new orbit lies Losen Records, a label established in 2010 by Odd Gjelsnes--the man who's also in charge of the 1997 founded jazz and classical music distribution company MusikkLosen . Contrary to the cinematically and atmospherically textured sound one has come to ...
