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Soft Machine Legacy: Soft Machine Legacy
by John Kelman
The problem with reunions is that they usually serve a fan base looking for classic repertoire and little in the way of new material and direction. Fortunately, in the 25 years or so since the legendary British jazz/rock group Soft Machine disbanded, two members of the classic lineup--saxophonist/pianist Elton Dean and electric bassist Hugh Hopper--have used ...
Dino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori
by John Kelman
Anyone still laboring under the misapprehension that there's an “ECM sound" need only look at the live film score retrospective of Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou's Elegy of the Uprooting, the improvisational classicism of French pianist François Couturier's Nostalghia--Song for Tarkovsky and Argentinean bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi's Juan Condori--all released on the same day. These three recordings couldn't ...
Music And The Creative Spirit
by John Kelman
Music And The Creative Spirit Lloyd Peterson Scarecrow Press ISBN 978-0-8108-5284-6 2006 At last, a book about music that doesn't impose any stylistic constraints--or, perhaps most importantly, any geographic ones. Lloyd Peterson, a contributor to Down Beat and Earshot magazines, adds the following subtitle to his new book: ...
Eleni Karaindrou: Elegy of the Uprooting
by John Kelman
Some film scores only work in conjunction with the movie. However, composers like Bernard Hermann and Ennio Morricone have created scores that also succeed as independent pieces of music. For over twenty years, Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has been scoring films, most notably for director Theo Angelopoulos. For the past fifteen years ECM has been documenting ...
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by John Kelman
Sight and sound are often inexorably linked. In the earliest days of silent film, musicians would provide live accompaniment to images on a screen. While scoring cinema has become an integral part of the visual narrative, music as homage to film is less common. Pianist François Couturier--familiar to ECM fans for his work with oudist Anouar ...
Chet Doxas Quartet: Sidewalk Etiquette
by John Kelman
Between appearing as the house band at this year's Montreal Jazz Festival jam sessions and recording his debut CD, Rate of Change (Effendi, 2006), the flexibility of Montreal-based pianist John Roney and his trio with bassist Zack Lober and drummer Jim Doxas should come as no surprise. As the rhythm section with Jim's brother Chet's quartet, ...
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: Out Louder
by John Kelman
It's been nearly a decade since John Scofield hooked up with jam band favorites Medeski, Martin and Wood for A Go Go (Verve, 1998), an album that singlehandedly placed the guitarist on the radar of a younger and enthusiastic demographic. Given that Scofield wrote all the material, A Go Go was unequivocally his project. On the ...
Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image of Your Body
by John Kelman
It's been a couple of years since pianist Myra Melford released the broad-scoped, orchestral Where the Two Worlds Touch (Arabesque, 2004) by her group The Tent. Since then she's relocated to Berkeley from New York and, if anything, the duality of her previous record is explored in even greater detail on The Image of Your Body, ...
Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill
by John Kelman
The problem with tribute records is that they are often too literal, and artists mistake reverence for true appreciation. Not so with Nels Cline's New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill. If the best way to honor a source is to demonstrate how it's altered one's own musical perspective in a deeply personal ...
Mark Feldman: What Exit
by John Kelman
If we are the sum of our experiences, then Mark Feldman represents an exceptional aggregate. The classically trained violinist is closely associated with the New York Downtown scene, where there seems to be few, if any, musical boundaries. He may be best known for collaborations with artists like John Zorn, Dave Douglas and John Abercrombie, but ...
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