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Enter the "Keith Jarrett - Sleeper" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

September 7, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ECM Records “Keith Jarrett - Sleeper“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on October 7th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Keith Jarrett at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at ...

Article: Interview

Marialy Pacheco: A Sunshine State of Mind

by Ian Patterson
September 4, 2012

It takes courage and self-belief to up sticks and try your luck in another country. There is, after all, no guarantee that things will work out, and some hard times are almost assured. The language barrier can leave you feeling utterly isolated, and until you gain fluency it is not possible to be truly yourself. It's ...

Article: Interview

Mike LeDonne: Where There’s Smoke

by Bob Kenselaar
August 27, 2012

Mike LeDonne has more than made his mark in jazz over the years, on both piano and organ. One of the New York jazz scene's premier instrumentalists, he's long been a favorite of fellow musicians. “He is incredible," said the late Oscar Peterson, who once described how he would rush to hear LeDonne play every night ...

Article: Album Review

Bro/Knak: Bro/Knak

by John Kelman
August 22, 2012

Following three consistently fine recordings as a leader--2009's The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1, 2010's Balladeering and 2011's Time (all on the Danish guitarist's own Loveland imprint)--in addition to international visibility gained through work with Paul Motian on the drummer's Garden of Eden (ECM, 2006) and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko's Dark Eyes (ECM, 2010), Jakob ...

Article: Live Review

Keith Jarrett Standards Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 16, 2012

Parco della Musica - Sala S. Cecilia - Roma - 29.07.2012 Anche questo Luglio, come ormai consuetudine già da qualche anno, Keith Jarrett si è concesso alle platee europee con un breve tour (9 date) dell'acclamatissimo Standards Trio, che il prossimo anno festeggerà il trentennale di attività. Particolarmente favoriti gli spettatori italiani, con ben quattro concerti ...

Article: Profile

Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape

by Chris Rich
August 12, 2012

Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of ...

Article: Live Review

Garana Jazz Festival, Garana, Romania, July 12-15 2012

by Adriana Carcu
August 10, 2012

Garana Jazz FestivalGarana, RomaniaJuly 12-15, 2012The 16th edition of the Garana open-air Jazz Festival gathered over 5,000 jazz lovers in a glade called the Wolf's Clearing, in the southern Carpathians. The weather conditions were excellent--a factor that should not be taken for granted; in Garana, it has rained during each of the last ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Dansere

by John Kelman
August 9, 2012

Of all the box sets released so far as part of ECM Records' Old & New Masters Edition series, none have documented a period of such rapid growth and change as that of Jan Garbarek and Dansere, which collects the Norwegian saxophonist's three recordings with Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson: Sart (1971), Witchi-Tai-To (1974) and Dansere (1976). ...

Article: Interview

Gregory Porter: Sound & Vision

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 6, 2012

Artists who mix or move between two styles, no matter how smoothly, sometimes risk being critically or commercially marooned between them. Gregory Porter sings in a style deeply steeped in the best soul and rhythm-and-blues schools; his deep and warm instrument conjures echoes of Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls and other legendary voices. Even so, his first ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Sleeper

by John Kelman
August 6, 2012

While ECM has, in recent years, been in the process of getting some of its older titles back in print through its Old & New Masters Edition series of box sets--some, like the music on Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen's Green Into Blue--Early Quartets (2010), seeing release on CD for the first time--the German label has avoided ...