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At the Village Vanguard
By Paul Motian
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart; Abacus; Folk Song for Rosie; The Owl of Cranston; Miles to Wrentham; Yahllah; The Sunflower; Circle Dance.
Paul Motian Trio: At the Village Vanguard
by Eric J. Iannelli
Never one to regard form over content, I was nevertheless struck at once by the sheer beauty of the packaging of this reissue: a heavy, ribbed cardboard shell with an arced slot for the disc on one side, a thinner slip for the original liner notes on the other. It gives it the feeling of an ...
Paul Motian Trio: At the Village Vanguard
by John Kelman
Paul Motian has created a unique place for himself in the annals of jazz drumming by being one of its most implicit players. More colourist than timekeeper, he's developed a style where very little often suggests so much. He's brought his “less is more aesthetic to projects by artists like Bill Evans, Paul Bley, and Marilyn ...
Paul Motian: Sound in Motian
by Russ Musto
"Everything comes from the sound. It's in the sound. It's in the sound of my drums. It's in the sound of whatever I'm hearing, Paul Motian says describing his unique musical style. “I don't have any idea what I'm doing, what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I'm playing off of the other people I'm ...
Paul Motian: I Have the Room Above Her & Motian in Tokio
by Rico Cleffi
Paul Motian I Have the Room Above Her ECM Records 2005 I Have the Room Above Her is an odd title choice, considering the title track is one of only two songs that drummer Paul Motian didn't write himself. Maybe Motian's too modest to go with one of his own ...
Jazzclub Singen (Hohentwiel, Germany) 15th Anniversary
by Robert R. Calder
Fifteen years ago Jazz-Club Singen was established in relation to the modest little theatre cum cinema (called GEMS) at the edge of the little industrial town of Singen-am-Hohentwiel, in the handsome German hinterland of Lake Constance (the Bodensee). About halfway through this period I became a part-time resident of the region. I hopped on a train ...
Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 3
by John Kelman
Winter & Winter continues with its JMT Edition series, reissuing in nicely repackaged and remastered form the roughly eighty recordings that Stefan Winter produced during the early to mid-'90s for the defunct JMT label. The appearance of drummer Paul Motian's On Broadway Vol. 3 completes the reissue of Motian's three standards albums. The 24-bit remastering brings ...
Paul Motian Trio: I Have The Room Above Her
by Stephen Latessa
I Have The Room Above Her is an album of deep mystery and sustaining grace. From the hauntingly evocative cover art to the solemn hush of the music within, drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Bill Frisell, and saxophonist Joe Lovano have created an album that lends itself beautifully to the higher serenity of meditation. The songs, all ...
Paul Motian: I Have the Room Above Her
by John Kelman
While he has recorded for the label on albums including Paul Bley's Not Two, Not One and, more recently, Marilyn Crispell's Storyteller , it has been twenty years since drummer Paul Motian last recorded under his own name for ECM. His last recording as a leader, 1984's It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago , ...
Paul Motian: I Have The Room Above Her
by Jochem van Dijk
Supposedly you can't argue about taste. But sometimes an icon of exquisite taste simply presents itself, inescapable and undeniable like an early sunrise on a clear winter day. Such is the case with I Have the Room Above Her , the new album by the Paul Motian Trio. So why is that? Because ...
