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Jazz From Around the World: Europe
by Hrayr Attarian
Jazz has had a universal appeal since its inception. As soon as the music left its cradle of New Orleans in the early years of the 20th century it quickly spread to all corners of the world. Europeans were among the first non-Americans to embrace the music and place their unique twist on it. Below are ...
Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures
by Roger Farbey
Taking a break from his highly (and justifiably) praised trio Phronesis, virtuoso bassist Jasper Høiby described the rationale for Fellow Creatures thus: “it's been a dream of mine for a while to start a larger ensemble and to have the option of writing for two melody instruments as well as the trio." Høiby also ...
Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo
by Karl Ackermann
There are few figures in modern music that are truly more iconic than Carla Bley. Her list of accomplishments are impossible to chronicle in this limited space, but suffice to say that her influence traverses genres, styles and generations, in a way that perhaps no other artist has approached. Her early crowning jewel—the jazz opera Escalator ...
Peter Erskine: Paging Dr. Um
by R.J. DeLuke
There's not much ground drummer Peter Erskine hasn't covered. He's said to have appeared on more than 600 albums. He has won two Grammys and holds an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music. He's been a part of the big bands of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson, and has played with the ...
Tim Garland: Songs to the North Sky
by Neri Pollastri
Noto internazionalmente per la sua collaborazione con Chick Corea, il non ancora cinquantenne polistrumentista inglese Tim Garland presenta in questo doppio CD una fotografia della sua attuale attività creativa, documentando nel primo disco il suo trio Lighthouse e nel secondo la sua suite per trio jazz e orchestra d'archi Songs to the North Sky.
Peter Brötzmann: Münster Bern
by Mark Corroto
One indisputable fact, there cannot be enough Peter Brötzmann solo recordings in this world. Okay, for those that might disagree, there are a few choice solo Brötzmann sessions that are a must. Count Münster Bern in that category. The saxophonist, a leader of the 1960s European free jazz movement and a Fluxus artist had released several ...
Lars Møller's Aarhus Jazz Orchestra feat. David Liebman and Marilyn Mazur: ReWrite of Spring
by Karl Ackermann
In the early twentieth century, at a time when the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was barely known, he had already composed the celebrated works Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911). The 1913 work, The Rite of Spring, was to become renowned both as a ballet and as a stand-alone orchestral score. The Paris premier at the newly ...
Various Artists: The Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970-1983
by Dave Wayne
Though New York City remains first and foremost in everyone's mind as the “Jazz Capital of the World," aficionados know that many other cities in the US and abroad support significant and artistically important jazz communities. Boston looms large among the most important jazz cities, worldwide. The birthplace of Harry Carney, Roy Haynes, George Russell, Sonny ...
Eberhard Weber: Hommage à Eberhard Weber
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Resumé Variations; Hommage; Touch; Maurizius; Tübingen; Notes After an Evening; Street Scenes (bonus track, HD and Made for iTunes only).
John Abercrombie on ECM - Part 1: Through the '80s
by Budd Kopman
Now that the The First Quartet set of recordings by guitarist/composer John Abercrombie from 1979-1981 has been released, it is as good a time as any to explore Abercrombie's career on ECM as a leader/co-leader, plus some his work as a sideman. There is a famous epithet from Bill Evans: “Jazz is not a ...
