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News: Recording

Keith Jarrett's "Sleeper" from Tokyo, April 16, 1979

Keith Jarrett's "Sleeper" from Tokyo, April 16, 1979

U.S. Release date: August 7, 2012 ECM is particularly pleased to present this two-disc set by one of the most outstanding groups of its era, the group often referred to as 'Belonging' or Keith Jarrett’s 'European Quartet', heard here in a previously unreleased concert recording from 1979. After more than three decades in the archive, this ...

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Article: Album Review

Jazz Arts Trio: Swing of Many Colors

Read "Swing of Many Colors" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner

For the most part Jazz Arts Trio's Swing of Many Colors presents relatively sedate recreations of recordings by some of jazz's most famous piano trio greats, including Ahmad Jamal, Red Garland, Oscar Peterson, and Keith Jarrett.Clearly a labor of love, each tune is meticulously reproduced with the fine attention to detail only a pet ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Arild Andersen: Celebration

Read "Arild Andersen: Celebration" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009--from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year's Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned ...

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Article: Album Review

John Surman: Saltash Bells

Read "Saltash Bells" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

There's no denying the “the sound of surprise" of group recordings; working solo, however, provides its own possibilities, despite meaning different things to different people. Pianist Keith Jarrett views it as a means for pulling form from the ether: one man, one piano, in real time. Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus, on the other hand, considers it a ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jens Larsen

Read "Take Five With Jens Larsen" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Jens Larsen: Danish Guitarist Jens Larsen took up playing guitar at the age of 12. Fascinated by jazz, he decided to first study in Copenhagen and later to leave for the Netherlands to study and later graduate cum laude from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He is now active working as a ...

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Article: Album Review

Bojan Z: Soul Shelter

Read "Soul Shelter" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

In twenty years as leader, pianist/composer Bojan Z has been judicious with the frequency and quality of his releases. Soul Shelter is his ninth CD in that time, and his first solo outing since Solobsession (Label Bleu, 2001). A new release by the pianist is always an event, and the wait, as always, has been worth ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Michael McNeill

Read "Take Five With Michael McNeill" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Michael McNeill: Michael McNeill has become an integral part of Buffalo, NY's thriving jazz and improvised music scene, performing with bands led by Kelly Bucheger and Ravi Padmanabha, and co-leading a quartet with John Bacon. He's also collaborated with trumpet legend Paul Smoker on projects of standards and of original compositions. McNeill also ...

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Article: Live Review

Trondheim Jazz Festival: May 9-13, 2012

Read "Trondheim Jazz Festival: May 9-13, 2012" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Trondheim Jazz FestivalTrondheim, NorwayMay 9-13, 2012 Being Norway's third largest city, next to Oslo and Bergen, means something completely different to being the third largest city in Canada or the United States. With more than 25,000 students in a city of approximately 160,000 people, it's not unlike (albeit a little larger than) ...

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Article: Album Review

Eddie Gomez: Per Sempre

Read "Per Sempre" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Bassist Eddie Gomez has never received the attention he deserves as a leader. While that's largely due to the fact that he spends so much time making other people sound better, the reason isn't important; it's an injustice, regardless of the cause. His pliant and flexible bass has been the binding agent and rhythmic-melodic-harmonic go-between responsible ...

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Article: We Travel the Spaceways

The Rocket Ship Takes Off

Read "The Rocket Ship Takes Off" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is the big record companies are dead. The good news is the big record companies are dead. Gone are the days of Columbia Records signing trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to a million dollar contract and then promoting the hell out of his vision of jazz, selling his ...


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