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A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis
by C. Michael Bailey
It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...
The State of ECM Records 2009: Steve Kuhn, Jan Garbarek and Thomas Zehetmair
by C. Michael Bailey
Its 40th anniversary year, 2009, has been a good one for Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music Company. ECM was selected the Best Classical Label by Gramophone magazine. If that wasn't enough, ECM was selected Jazz Label of the Year and Manfred Eicher, Producer of the Year by Downbeat magazine. No record label since the Blue ...
The State of Classical Music 2009: Andras Schiff and Rolf Lislevand
by C. Michael Bailey
Contrary to popular belief, “classical" music is not dull, static or lifeless. Rather, it is a dynamic creative event that is as fresh as its most recent performance. It is also untrue that improvisation has no place in “classical" performance. Both Mozart and Beethoven were very capable improvisers of their own and others' compositions. Capturing these ...
Kenny G: An Evening of Rhythm and Romance
Grammy-Award Winning Saxophonist’s First Ever Blu-ray Release On DVD and Blu-ray October 6 New York, NY: An Evening Of Rhythm & Romance, a DVD and Blu-ray from Grammy-Award winning saxophonist Kenny G will be simultaneously released on October 6 through Eagle Rock Entertainment. [MSRP $14.98 for DVD, $24.98 for Blu-ray]. With global album sales in excess ...
Roy Hargrove: Emergence
by Robert J. Robbins
As a trumpeter, composer, and an arranger, Roy Hargrove has been a mainstay of the contemporary music scene in a variety of formats for nearly two decades. Nevertheless, his big band experience has been limited mostly to his appearances with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, with which he has most ably proved himself an heir ...
John Mayall to Release "Tough" September 15th
EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT IS PROUD TO PRESENT JOHN MAYALL’S “TOUGH" New Studio Album By The Blues Master – His 57th To Date New York, NY--Over the years, Eagle Rock Entertainment has developed a strong relationship with legendary blues master John Mayall. On September 15, 2009, through their wholly-owned Eagle Records subsidiary, Mayall’s ...
John Surman: Brewster's Rooster
by John Kelman
After a string of more jazz-centric ECM releases--1992's relatively free Adventure Playground, the large ensemble of 1993's The Brass Project, and the only document of his ongoing quartet with pianist John Taylor, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall, 1994's Stranger Than Fiction--saxophonist John Surman's subsequent output for the label has consisted of unorthodox but no ...
Miroslav Vitous Group /w Michel Portal: Remembering Weather Report
by John Kelman
On the surface, Remembering Weather Report possesses little in common with the fusion supergroup that Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous co-founded in the early '70s with keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, before being summarily removed on the cusp of greater commercial success. Weather Report was a decidedly electric group; Vitous' is unapologetically acoustic, and doesn't ...
Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane
by John Kelman
Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward ...
Jon Balke: Siwan
by John Kelman
A banner year for ECM in many respects, 2009 has seen two specific releases that, in their intrepid conceptual cross-pollination, stand poised as contemporary masterpieces. One is composer/sound sculptor Ambrose Field's exploration of 15th Century composer Guillame Dufay's music with tenor John Potter on the forward-thinking Being Dufay (ECM, 2009); the other is Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon ...
