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Chick Corea: Solo Piano
by John Kelman
It may be Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley who, with Facing You (1972) and Open, To Love (1973) respectively, put ECM on the map for what would become a lifelong focus on the art of solo piano, but it was Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971) and Vol. 2 (1972) that represented the label's first ...
Francois Couturier: Un jour si blanc
by John Kelman
For forty years, ECM has created a fertile landscape for the solo piano recital. The list of illustrious pianists who have contributed to this pantheon is as stylistically broad as it is internationally inclusive. Paul Bley, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Marilyn Crispell, Jon Balke, Misha Alperin, Vassilis Tsabropoulos--all these pianists have placed their individual stamps on ...
Siwan
By Jon Balke
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tuchia; O Andalusin; Jadwa; Ya Safwati; Ondas do mar de Vigo;
Itimad; A la dina dana; Zahori; Ashiyin Raiqin Thulâthiyat; Toda
Ciencia Trascendiendo.
Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by Nenad Georgievski
Jon Balke Siwan ECM Records 2009 Keyboardist Jon Balke's project Siwan is another category-defying masterpiece blending different elements from various traditions and styles into something special. It is an incredibly powerful work, where Balke makes the kind of cinematic music that simply defies tidy description because of its ...
Molde Jazz: Day 6, July 18, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Break of Day in Molde / Crimetime Orchestra / Jaga Jazzist / Arve Henriksen Closing ConcertMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 18, 2009 It's almost impossible to believe, that after the late nights ...
Molde Jazz: Day 3, July 15, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Christian Wallumrød Ensemble with Arve Henriksen / Kristin AsbjørnsenMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 15, 2009Located on a large fjord, Molde's weather is moderated by its proximity to the ocean, ...
Molde Jazz: Day 1, July 13, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Arve Henriksen Cartography / Bugge Wesseltoft Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 13, 2009 Descending by plane into Molde airport, it's difficult not to be in awe of the geography surrounding ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by John Kelman
A banner year for ECM in many respects, 2009 has seen two specific releases that, in their intrepid conceptual cross-pollination, stand poised as contemporary masterpieces. One is composer/sound sculptor Ambrose Field's exploration of 15th Century composer Guillame Dufay's music with tenor John Potter on the forward-thinking Being Dufay (ECM, 2009); the other is Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by C. Michael Bailey
The competent and successful musico-cultural eutection promoted by ECM founder Manfred Eicher since the release of Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble's Officium (ECM, 1993) takes another quantum step with keyboardist Jon Balke's imaginative and far reaching Siwan. Balke enters a realm of cross-cultural pollination evolving from Officium, through that same collaboration's expanded vision on Mnemosyne (ECM, 1999) to ...
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