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Roddy Ellias Trio: Monday's Dream
by John Kelman
Since returning home to Ottawa after spending much of his adult life as an associate music professor at Concordia University in Montréal, Roddy Ellias may have retired but he's far from slowing down. Retirement's just a word, but for this extraordinary guitarist it's clearly been a liberating one; based on Monday's Dream, his first recording since ...
Euro Open Jazz Festival 2014
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ivrea e Banchette--20-22.03.2014 Il trittico centrale del festival dedicato al duetto è partito la seconda sera a Banchette, in una Sala Pinchia esaurita da giorni, con Paolo Fresu e Daniele Di Bonaventura, il primo rivolto (come del resto gli accade da un po') più al flicorno che alla tromba, il secondo votato unicamente ...
Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie: Five Years Later
by John Kelman
The long overdue release of Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie's Five Years Later, originally released in 1982, may well be the most eagerly anticipated of the Re:Solutions series that brings into print--on CD (four titles for the first time, Five Years Later previously only available for a limited time in Japan), vinyl and high resolution digital ...
Norma Winstone: Dance Without Answer
by John Kelman
If there's a single accomplishment that can be attributed to ECM Records--though there are, of course, many in its 45-year history--it's that it welcomes unusual instrumentation with open arms, affording such collaborations the opportunity to grow, to evolve, and build a new language. From the pan-cultural CODONA Trilogy (2009), which collected the three genre-defying recordings made ...
Gary Husband & Alex Machacek: Now
by John Kelman
Over the course of the past decade or so, Abstract Logix has gone from being a web-based shop front for all things fusion--and that's fusion in the true sense of the word, by the way; not just the high octane, often pyrotechnic genre it's narrowed down to over the decades--into a record label with a small ...
Travel Guide
By Ralph Towner
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: The Henrysons; Father Time; Windsong; Duende; Amarone Trio; Travel Guide; Die blaue Stunde; Nico und Mithra; Tarry; Museum of Light.
Ralph Towner / Wolfgang Muthspiel / Slava Grigoryan: Travel Guide
by John Kelman
Following an early series of ensemble releases for ECM (the label he's called home as a leader since 1973), Ralph Towner ushered in the new millennium by focusing on solo explorations with Anthem (2001) and Time Line (2006). Not that there's anything wrong with that, but after classic records like Solstice (1975) and Batik (1978), there ...
39 Steps
by John Kelman
John Abercrombie has rarely played with pianists, at least in his own groups and throughout his extensive discography as a leader for ECM Records that began with the immediate classic, 1975's Timeless. Other than a brief reunion with that record's group for 1984's Night, the veteran guitarist has, in fact, only recorded with one other piano-based ...
Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival 2013
by Mark Holston
Crown of the Continent Guitar FestivalBigfork, MontanaAugust 26-31, 2013“Either I'm imaging things, or this festival has grown just a little in the four years since I was here last," Pat Metheny laughed as he squinted into the glare of a brace of theater lights. An SRO crowd of over 900 ecstatic fans crammed ...
Monkey Plot: Lov og lette vimpler
by Eyal Hareuveni
The title of this debut album from young Norwegian trio Monkey Plot, Løv og lette vimpler ("leaves and light streamers" in Norwegian) suggests a glimpse into its impressive range. The musical vocabulary of these musicians--acoustic guitarist Christian Skår Winther, double bassist Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (both members of the noisy, in-your-face punk-jazz trio Ich Bin N!ntendo) and ...
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