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Keith Jarrett: Tokyo Solo
by John Kelman
Keith Jarrett Tokyo Solo ECM Records 2006 When piano icon Keith Jarrett released Radiance (ECM, 2005), it signalled a welcome return to solo performance, something that was curtailed from the mid-1990s through 2002 as a result of a serious health issue that, at times, had Jarrett himself wondering whether he'd ...
Deidre Rodman / Steve Swallow: Twin Falls
by John Kelman
Ask any budding electric jazz bassist who their biggest influence is, and chances are they'll cite the late Jaco Pastorius. And why not? During his tragically short life Pastorius revolutionized his instrument and contributed a small but significant body of work that's still being mined to this day. Why, then, is Steve Swallow so far off ...
Jason Rigby: Translucent Space
by John Kelman
On the competitive New York scene, you've got to be more than just a strong player; you've got to have a concept. Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Jason Rigby's eclectic yet focused debut, Translucent Space, is one of those records that creeps up on you. Recorded live to two-track in just one day, the disc shows Rigby's broad textural ...
21st Century Schizoid Band: Pictures of a City - Live in New York
by John Kelman
It's been 37 years since In the Court of the Crimson King dispensed with preconceptions of what rock music could or should be. And while Robert Fripp, a King Crimson co-founder and the group's only remaining original member, has steadfastly kept his eye on the future, archival reissues--including two outstanding Discipline Global Mobile retrospective box sets, ...
The Source: The Source
by John Kelman
Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim turned heads with his two recordings as a leader, Different Rivers (ECM, 2000), and Sangam (ECM, 2004). But these richly composed discs reveal but one aspect of his work. Though he claimed in a 2005 interview not to “find soloing in the traditional manner particularly interesting," the Source--his decade-old cooperative with trombonist ...
Martin Speake: Change of Heart
by John Kelman
Change of Heart, alto saxophonist Martin Speake's first recording for ECM, will no doubt garner him some well-deserved international exposure. But he's been a fixture on the British scene for two decades, with a varied discography that a larger audience will now hopefully explore. This disc presents only one facet of Speake's interests, but it's as ...
Robert Fripp: Exposure
by John Kelman
When King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp disbanded the group in 1974, it seemed as though he'd grown tired of being its de facto leader. But he remained active, performing with artists as diverse as Brian Eno, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates and Blondie. While listeners who'd lost touch with him after King Crimson were ...
Marc Copland / Randy Brecker: Both / And
by John Kelman
In recent years Marc Copland has been honing an introspective approach to the piano that's as heavy on substance as it is on style. But with the exception of his ongoing trio with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Jochen Ruchert, he's concentrated on solo work, duets and an unconventional trio with trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and guitarist ...
Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
by John Kelman
Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky Paperback; 313 pages ISBN 0-9761016-2-9 Abstract Logix Books 2005 Anyone who's old enough to have experienced the Mahavishnu Orchestra's debut The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia/Legacy, 1971) when it was first ...
Susanne Abbuehl: Compass
by John Kelman
Anyone fortunate enough to have heard Susanne Abbuehl's out-of-print first record, I Am Rose (Evoke, 1997), knows that while the singer's musical direction was already developing, it was not until her 2001 ECM debut, April, that it became fully realized. Compass is a logical evolution, but it manages a few surprises, finding Abbuehl and her unorthodox ...
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