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John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Nenad Georgievski
Most ECM albums are not only about the notes that are played, but the space between those notes. The label's trademark contemporary sound shines through on prodigal guitarist John Abercrombie's The Third Quartet. Abercrombie is an immediately recognizable musician on that most overplayed of instruments, and the result is an album of extraordinary transcendence that defies ...
John Abercrombie: All About the Sound
by Paul Olson
John Abercrombie is the most important living jazz guitarist. That caught your attention, didn't it? Well, I'll insist it's true. No guitarist has a stronger recorded legacy than Abercrombie's. He moved to New York City in 1969 and immediately began carving out a reputation as a peerless, fearless player, doing road work with organist ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Michael P. Gladstone
This album is so named since it is the third recording of these four musicians and by far it is the most impressive. Previous meetings Cat 'n' Mouse (ECM, 2002) and Class Trip (ECM, 2004) were less impressive. Guitarist John Abercrombie has been recording for ECM since the early 1970s and has produced a prodigious volume ...
John Abercrombie: Six-String Visionary
by Jason Crane
Jason Crane interviews guitarist John Abercrombie, whose forthcoming record is The Third Quartet (ECM, 2007). Abercrombie has been on more than 50 ECM recordings as a leader or sideman, including sessions with Charles Lloyd, Kenny Wheeler, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Liebman and Dave Holland. This interview features several excerpts from the new CD in ...
John Abercrombie Quartet: The Third Quartet
by Martin Gladu
John Abercrombie may well become the most recorded guitarist in jazz history--his discography being rather generous, to say the least. His collaboration with ECM spans three decades and counts over twenty solo albums with diverse formations and line-ups. Of those, the trios with organist Dan Wall and drummer Alan Nussbaum as well as Gateway (with drummer ...
John Abercrombie at The Jazz Bakery, L. A.
by Jim Santella
John Abercrombie Quartet The Jazz Bakery Los Angeles, California Friday, April 20, 2007 The interpretations that guitarist John Abercrombie and his quartet gave to each selection for the first set of a Friday night opening engagement at Los Angeles' Jazz Bakery allowed for plenty of room to stretch ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Jim Santella
With this quartet's third album, John Abercrombie interprets a program of eight original compositions plus “Round Trip by Ornette Coleman and “Epilogue by pianist Bill Evans. The choices show where this modern mainstream guitarist comes from, as the quartet's session pulls from jazz's creative tradition: rich in harmonic surprises and yet free and unique. ...
John Abercrombie Quartet at the Hilton Ballroom
by Troy Collins
John Abercrombie QuartetCentral Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz eventHilton BallroomHarrisburg, PennsylvaniaSunday, April 15, 2007 The dedicated touring ensemble is a rarity in today's jazz scene--a thing of rare beauty to cherish in these times of collective projects, pick-up bands and ad hoc all-star ensembles. Guitarist John Abercrombie brought his ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by C. Michael Bailey
There is a continuum in jazz, as in most music genera, which extends from the most rigidly defined and precisely contained performance to the antithetically free and fully open recital. To offer examples of the former, one might consider swing era big band music of the Glenn Miller ilk. The latter is embodied in John Coltrane's ...
The John Abercrombie Quartet at Birdland
by Budd Kopman
The John Abercrombie QuartetBirdlandNew York, NYApril 11, 2007, 9:00 PM This night was the beginning of a four-night stand and the band had just finished a European tour. It became clear quite quickly that they were in a good mood since what sounded like tuning up evolved very smoothly into ...
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