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Bill Evans: The Legendary Trio At Birdland 1960 Revisited

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Keen-eyed Bill Evans aficionados will know that this album is the pianist's third in the Revisited series by ezz-thetics, following At The Village Vanguard 1961 Revisited and the double-CD Duos with Jim Hall & Trios '64 & '65 Revisited, both released in 2023. “The Legendary Trio" refers to the threesome of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro and ...

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Martin Arnold: Flax

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In 2020, near the dawn of the COVID-19 lockdown, in a benevolent act, the Another Timbre label commissioned a number of selected composers to write pieces that would be recorded for the label. One such commission was for one of the label's esteemed Canadian composers, Martin Arnold, to write a CD-length piece for renowned pianist Philip ...

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Sergio Armaroli & Evan Parker: Dialog

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In 2022, Italian-born vibraphonist Sergio Armaroli and British-born saxophonist Evan Parker were scheduled to tour Italy together, and go into a recording studio together to record a set of freely improvised music in real time. However, the plan fell apart because Parker became unable to leave Britain (maybe for Covid-related reasons?) Although Parker cancelled the tour ...

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Mia Zabelka: DUOS featuring Alain Joule / Tracy Lisk

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Although Austrian violinist, vocalist & composer Mia Zabelka's first album--a vinyl LP--was released in 1987, DUOS (Setola Di Maiale, 2023) is only her twenty-fifth album release, sixteen of which have been released since 2010. While that could be a negative sign for some musicians, for Zabelka it is an indication of the quality of her albums ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Five Years of Elsewhere

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Yuko Zama's Elsewhere label (not to be confused with her partner Jon Abbey's Erstwhile label) released its first albums in the spring of 2018, which means that 2023 saw the label's fifth anniversary. Without any fanfares or brouhaha the label carried on as it has throughout those years, releasing a steady stream of high-quality recordings by ...

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Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano.: Braids

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The trio of Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffer, British saxophonist John Butcher and US drummer Chris Corsano recorded their first album Braids live at Le Singe, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on May 22nd 2022. Stoffer had a previous release on ezz-thetics, Tetratne, a duo with drummer Paul Lovens, released in 2020. Between 1999 and 2009, Butcher was a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

One and a half albums from Catherine Lamb (plus a half from Kristofer Svensson)

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The American-born, Berlin resident, composer and violist Catherine Lamb is no stranger to progressive label Another Timbre. Her first album on the label, Three Bodies (Moving) was released in 2012. Since then, a steady stream of her compositions has appeared on the label, performed solo or by small groupings. Once before, on Viola Torros (Another Timbre, ...

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Umlaut Chamber Orchestra: Zodiac Suite – Mary Lou Williams

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From 1942 until 1945, pianist Mary Lou William (1910-1981) wrote “Zodiac Suite," a twelve part composition in which each movement was named after a sign of the zodiac and was also dedicated to one or more renowned jazz musician born under that sign; for example, “Aries" was for Ben Webster and Billie Holiday, while “Libra" was ...

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Ornette Coleman Trio: At The Golden Circle Stockholm Revisited

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As the ezz-thetics label has already released two of Ornette Coleman's Blue Note albums together on New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited, both recorded in April and May 1968, it was always in the cards that both volumes of At the Golden Circle Stockholm, recorded in December 1965, would not be far behind. Sure ...

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Jürg Frey: String Trio

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2023 was always going to be a landmark year for the esteemed Swiss clarinetist and composer Jürg Frey. His 70th birthday was in May and, to celebrate it, the renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival allocated three slots to Frey's music on the festival's second Saturday. In addition, String Trio became the third Frei album released in ...


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