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Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

Pianist Enlargement

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
May 8, 2015

We're celebrating Keith Jarrett's 70th Birthday with the republication of this October 2003 Genius Guide to Jazz article. A recent AAJ poll reveals that if you were to ask the average American to name the most influential living jazz pianist, 89.4% of them would giggle like a schoolgirl because the word “pianist" sounds naughty ...

Article: Interview

Eivind Aarset: The Edge Between Intimacy and Courage

by Adriana Carcu
May 7, 2015

Guitarist and composer Eivind Aarset is one of the most imaginative exponents of the spirit of open diversity that defines and differentiates the Nordic Jazz soundscape. Coming along a progressive-rock line of influence enriched by a world music heritage and refined by electronics, his music emanates the radiant energy of an unfolding white lotus flower that ...

Article: Album Review

Jakob Bro: Gefion

Read "Gefion" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 8, 2015

I primi centottanta secondi sono quasi impercettibili. Non è una questione di volume, ma di estetica, di dichiarazione di intenti. Jakob Bro si presenta così in Gefion sua prima fatica discografica per ECM, il silenzio, lo spazio, il suono, il Rainbow Studio di Oslo come compagni di viaggio al pari del batterista Jon Christensen e del ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Gefion

by John Kelman
March 10, 2015

It's been a long time coming. Jakob Bro made his first ECM appearance as a member of drummer Paul Motian's twin-sax/triple-guitar band on the late drummer's Garden of Eden (2006). Three more years passed before he returned, this time as a member of Tomasz Stanko's trans-European quintet on 2009's Dark Eyes--a group that evolved considerably from ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jakob Bro: Gefion

by Henning Bolte
February 26, 2015

Gefion, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's ECM-debut as leader, is a fascinating reinvention of melodicism. His music leads listeners deep into the rich resonances emerging from brilliantly simple melodic motifs imbued with seductive atmospheres. Like Möbius strips his music's lines wind seemingly endlessly. Its evocative melodic nuclei very often reach the lower limits of dynamics, thereby opening ...

Article: Rediscovery

Masqualero: Masqualero

by John Kelman
January 8, 2015

MasqualeroMasqualeroOdin1983 Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, there are still those who think that Norwegian musicians can't play “real jazz" (whatever that is), and that what they do play is something consistently (and erroneously) categorized as “Nordic Cool." Submitted for your approval is today's Rediscovery: the self-titled debut from Masqualero, ...

Article: Profile

Jakob Bro: A Happy Unintended Consequence with Kenny Wheeler

by Henning Bolte
January 7, 2015

A while ago a group of Danish musicians recorded an album entitled “Unintended Consequences." It was an enterprise to play music in a non-intentional way which demanded dealing with the paradox of intending something unintended. Sometimes however unintended consequences can “just happen" due to circumstances. That is what Danish guitarist Jakob Bro experienced a time ago. ...

Article: Rediscovery

Ralph Towner Solstice: Sound and Shadows

by John Kelman
January 5, 2015

Ralph Towner SolsticeSound and ShadowsECM Records1977 While it took the label a year or so to define its raison d'être, by 1970/71 Germany's ECM Records had already garnered significant attention for its pristine, transparent sound, and for beginning to redefine the possibilities of what improvised music could be. A group that ...

Album

Miroslav Vitous Group

By Miroslav Vitous

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: When Face Gets Pale; Second Meeting; Number Six; Inner Peace; Interplay; Gears; Sleeping Beauty; Eagle.

Article: Book Review

Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz europea

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2014

Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz euorpea Luca Vitali 320 pages ISBN:9788886784979 Auditorium Edizioni 2014 Inspite of having a population of only five million inhabitants, Norway, contests author Luca Vitali, produces and consumes more jazz than almost any other country in Europe. The growth ...