Label: Jazz Magnet Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: View From The Point; Aeolus; BBJC; A Simple Melody; For Bradford; AUBADE; C/D/E; Point of View; AM 2 1/2; 2 For Cyrille.

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Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Yet Can Spring; Duiloquy; Here Is Only Moment; The Open Return; March Fantastique; The Natural World; Yellow Are Crowds of Flowers, I; Don't You Know.

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Marty Ehrlich: Song

by David Adler
November 1, 2001

Reedsman Marty Ehrlich enlists pianist Uri Caine, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Billy Drummond for this lyrical, swinging, accessible set. After opening with Robin Holcomb’s melancholy “Waltz" (a feature for Ehrlich’s brilliant bass clarinet), the quartet embarks on a trilogy of Ehrlich-penned pieces. “The Price of the Ticket," inspired by James Baldwin, begins with a beautifully ...

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Article: Album Review

Marty Ehrlich: Song

by David Adler
November 1, 2001

Reedsman Marty Ehrlich enlists pianist Uri Caine, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Billy Drummond for this lyrical, swinging, accessible set. After opening with Robin Holcomb's melancholy “Waltz" (a feature for Ehrlich's brilliant bass clarinet), the quartet embarks on a trilogy of Ehrlich-penned pieces. “The Price of the Ticket," inspired by James Baldwin, begins with a beautifully ...

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Ehrlich/Dresser/Cyrille: C/D/E

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2001

At some point in its history, free jazz differentiated into two forms: chamber music-style improvisation and in-your-face adventurism. Some free players prefer to use silence and nuance as tools for measured cadences, while others go for the all-out emotional release as a tool for catharsis. This trio is interesting because it includes elements from both traditions ...

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Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford: Yet Can Spring

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2001

From the opening notes of Yet Can Spring, it's clear that Myra Melford and Marty Ehrlich occupy common ground. It's not common in any other sense of the word, though. These two players each have a unique perspective on the intersection of straight-ahead improvisation with its freer forms, and both dwell eagerly at the interface. At ...

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