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The Ellis Marsalis Quartet: An Open Letter to Thelonious
by C. Michael Bailey
Thelonious Monk is jazz's biggest enigma. Called the “high priest of bebop," the jazz Monk composed and performed was anything but. Technically, Monk's time and tempo were impressive, but he was no dazzling speed wizard like Bud Powell or arpeggio painter like Art Tatum. He didn't compose bebop, but bebop leaders recorded his compositions. What Monk ...
Elli Fordyce: Something Still Cool with Jim Malloy
by Michael P. Gladstone
Elli Fordyce's Something Still Cool evokes an era when, if you shook a tree, several female jazz singers would fall out. The preponderance and preference for cool woman singers in the 1950s is the raison d'être that has eluded Fordyce over a multi-decade series of misfortunes that have only made this debut album available now.
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is always room for one more piano trio when the leader, pianist Marc Copland, comes out of the modal school of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. Considering his choice of sidemen and their employers, bassist Gary Peacock (Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio) and drumming legend Paul Motian (Bill Evans's renowned Riverside Trio with Scott LaFaro). In ...
The Latin Tinge: Small Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
The article The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style looked at a spate of big band releases featuring Latin influenced jazz. An equally large spate of small band recordings devoted to Latin jazz has also been released. The two bodies of work are vibrant evidence that the Latin assimilation of jazz is one of the most fortuitous ...
Grupa Janke Randalu: Live
by Michael P. Gladstone
This release finds an interactive pianist and percussionist duo providing a stimulating program of jazz standards, classical and original material. Estonian-born pianist/composer Kristjan Randalu and Polish native/percussionist Bodek Janke collaborate on a variety of selections that reflect their twenty years of experience working together. Randalu's opener, “Confidance," is a major source of ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by John Kelman
Born of an American father and Norwegian mother, Jacob Young's 2004 ECM debut, Evening Falls, may have introduced him to a more global audience, but he'd already been active on the Norwegian scene for a decade, releasing three albums for smaller independent labels. Still, with a strong quintet that is now back for Sideways, the guitarist ...
Ketil Bjornstad / Terje Rypdal: Life in Leipzig
by John Kelman
The reward is great when a new and unusual teaming of musicians turns out to be not only artistically and critically successful, but the genesis of long term musical relationships. When ECM's Manfred Eicher proposed bringing neoclassical pianist Ketil Bjørnstad, generally rock- inflected, but stylistically broad guitarist Terje Rypdal, cellist David Darling and drummer Jon Christensen ...
Marilyn Mazur: Elixir
by John Kelman
Marilyn Mazur may be best remembered to North American audiences for her work with Miles Davis in the 1980s. Since then, however, the Danish percussionist has continued to lead an active musical life on her own projects including Small Labyrinths (ECM, 1997), as well as collaborating on ECM recordings by Eberhard Weber, Jon Balke and Jan ...
Jon Balke: Book of Velocities
by John Kelman
Over the course of three decades Jon Balke has, without any particular muss or fuss, emerged not only as one of Norway's finest pianists in a sphere of jazz of the largest possible definition, but one of its most influential. From his early days with bassist Arild Anderson and drummer Jon Christensen's Masqualero, Balke's writing and ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by Budd Kopman
The enigmatically beautiful Sideways is the second ECM release from Norwegian/American (not Norwegian-American) guitarist and composer Jacob Young, coming four years after Evening Falls (ECM, 2004). While Evening Falls might have been a prime example of the ECM sound/aesthetic, Sideways ups the ante, demonstrating Young's very strong control over the elements of his ...
