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Paul Motian: ECM Recordings

by Budd Kopman
March 9, 2006

Paul Motian (born 1931, Philadelphia) has had a long career and is widely considered one of the most influential modern drummers, accentuating melodic aspects while downplaying timekeeping. While he obviously can keep time, as evidenced by his early work with the Bill Evans trio (1959-1962) at first with Scott LaFaro on bass and then Chuck Israels, ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 6, 2006

Despite the passage of time, drummer Paul Motian, now 75, continues to develop his singular take on jazz tradition while simultaneously exploring its storied history. Altering his much-lauded Electric Bebop Band by adding a third guitarist to the mix, Motian makes a break with recent convention. Forsaking another album primarily dependent on rearranged bop standards, Motian ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 4, 2006

For about the last fifteen years, drummer Paul Motian has explored the possibilities of two guitars, two saxophones, bass and drums with his Electric Bebop Band. Always drawing from a revolving cast of younger, emergent musicians, he augments the lineup with another guitar on Garden of Eden. Though a septet with this instrumentation ...

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Paul Motian: At The Village Vanguard

Read "At The Village Vanguard" reviewed by Abe Pollack

by Abe Pollack
February 23, 2006

Paul Motian's longstanding trio is considered one of the greatest jazz bands of today, if not all time. With guitarist Bill Frisell and tenor man Joe Lovano working in symbiotic melody and harmony, Motian has the freedom to showcase his use of color and texture. These musicians approach a standard as if it were an original, ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden Of Eden

Read "Garden Of Eden" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 24, 2006

On Garden Of Eden, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band shortens its name and lengthens its stride to present a new artistic agenda. Recalibrations of the bop and hard bop repertoires stay on the bill, but only in a supporting role: the main event now is original material, most of it composed by Motian. (Nine of the ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
January 22, 2006

If Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude had been put to music, it might have sounded like Garden of Eden. That novel has a feeling of timelessness, fecund vegetation, thick air, filtered sunlight, and a natural beauty that is almost frightening in its immediacy and intensity. The history of this group goes ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 17, 2006

A recent bulletin board poster suggested that “any human being's imagination and creative thinking wanes with age." Considering how many artists in their sixties and beyond remain not only vital, but are creating some of their best work, it's an easy supposition to refute. Drummer Paul Motian is the perfect example--despite some travel restrictions due to ...

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On Broadway Vol. 3

By Paul Motian

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: How Deep is the Ocean; I Wish I Knew; Just One of Those Things; Crazy She Calls Me; Tico Tico; Weaver of Dreams; The Way You Look Tonight; Handull of Stars; Pennies From Heaven; Skylark

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I Have The Room Above Her

By Paul Motian

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Osmosis Part III; Sketches; Odd Man Out; Shadows I have the room above her; Osmosis part I; Dance; Harmony; The Riot Act; The Bag Man; One In Three; Dreamland.

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Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

By Bill Evans

Label: Riverside
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: Spoken Introduction; Gloria's Step (Take 1, interupted); Alice In Wonderland; My Foolish Heart; All Of You (Take 1); Announcement And Intermission; My Romance (Take 1); Some Other Time; Solar.

CD2: Gloria's Step (Take 2); My Man's Gone Now; All Of You (Take 2); Detour Ahead (Take 1); Discussing Repertoire; Waltz For Derby (Take 1); Alice In Wonderland (Take 2); Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy); My Romance (Take 2); Milestones.

CD3: Detour Ahead (Take 2); Gloria's Step (Take 3); Waltz For Derby (Take 2); All Of You (Take 3); Jade Visions (Take 1); Jade Visions (Take 2); ...A Few Final Bars.