The former trio has now become a quintet, with the addition of saxophone player Tore Brunborg and trumpet player Jakob Eri Myhre. «Farkost» offers a lovely and exciting journey through nine original compositions. One can easily find connections between music and movement. The direction of a melody, the atmosphere in a harmonic motion or the energy of interplay. One can think of music as sound waves in motion or feel how the music makes your body move. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Bill Frisells neuestes Projekt „In My Dreams“ ist eine Art Familientreffen, das einige der engsten Freunde des gefeierten Gitarristen in einem einzigartigen Sextett vereint: Thomas Morgan am Bass, Rudy Royston am Schlagzeug, Jenny Scheinman an der Violine, Eyvind Kang an der Bratsche und Hank Roberts am Cello. Ihre musikalische Geschichte reicht Jahrzehnte zurück, doch noch ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Das Titelstück, das das Programm eröffnet, wurde von dem Schweizer Komponisten und unvergleichlichen Oboisten als Hommage an seine musikalische Partnerin Schüpbach geschrieben: „Seit ich im Duo mit Marie-Lise spiele, fasziniert mich, wie unsere beiden Instrumente den Umfang und die Palette der Klangfarben des jeweils anderen erweitern. Für mich haben sich neue Klangwege eröffnet.“ ...
Komponist: Heinz Holliger (1939-), Toshio Hosokawa (1955-), Jürg Wyttenbach (1935), György Kurtág (1926), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910-1995)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Jewel In The Lotus (Remastered)
The Jewel in the Lotus is the debut album by jazz woodwind player Bennie Maupin, recorded in March 1974 and released on ECM later that year. The sextet's rhythm section consists of pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Buster Williams and percussionists Billy Hart, Freddie Waits and Bill Summers, with guest appearances from trumpeter Charles Sullivan. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The upright bass is, of course, a fixture of many jazz ensembles, in which it often “solos” but only over or surrounded by other instruments. Strange, then, that the thought of it on its own should be such a difficult one to swallow (no pun intended). Where most musicians might have fallen back on the comfort of overdubbing and other postproduction trickery, Dave ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Old And New Dreams (Remastered)
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but the repertoire of their Old and New Dreams quartet soon blossomed into a project of much wider scope, addressing also the musical experiences the players had made ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
One look at my other Keith Jarrett reviews is enough to confirm that I have been guilty of separating his skills as performer and improviser from those of his role as composer. After listening to an album such as In The Light, however, I begin to suspect that for him they are one and the same. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Collin Walcott defined a corner of improvisation all his own with his unique approach to the sitar and tabla. When the newly-formed Gateway trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette joined him for “Cloud Dance” the results were magical. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Sart is the third album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded over two days in April 1971 and released on ECM later that year—his second release for the label. The quintet features pianist Bobo Stenson, guitarist Terje Rypdal, and Afric Pepperbird rhythm section Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Codona is an album by the American sitarist and tabla player Collin Walcott, American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and Brazilian jazz percussionist Naná Vasconcelos (collectively known by the acronym Codona). It was recorded in September 1978 and released on ECM the following year — the first of three self-titled albums by the trio. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Nach Chick Coreas Piano Improvisations und Keith Jarretts Facing You war Paul Bleys Open, To Love das dritte fabelhafte Kapitel in ECMs leise revolutionärem Solo-Piano-Manifest, dessen Wirkung bis heute anhält und Improvisatoren beeinflusst. In den Liner Notes dieser Luminessence-Vinyl-Edition schreibt Bley-Biograph Greg Buium: "Nach mehr als fünfzig Jahren bleibt ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Gary Burton gilt nicht nur als einer der ganz großen Innovatoren des Vibraphonspiels in der modernen Jazzära, sondern war auch immer ein äußerst erfolgreicher Entdecker und Förderer von Talenten. Zwei dieser Talente stellte er 1973 auf dem Album “The New Quartet” vor: den Bassisten Abraham Laboriel und den ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Three Day Moon is an album by American jazz bassist Barre Phillips recorded in March 1978 and released on ECM later that year. The quartet features guitarist Terje Rypdal, Dieter Feichtner on synthesizer and percussionist Trilok Gurtu. "I have said it before and I will say it again: Barre Phillips is one of ECM’s most underrecognized treasures. A maverick of the upright bass, his is a mind in which one revels getting lost. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mit "kühnem und visionärem Geist", um eine Downbeat-Rezension aus dem Jahr der Veröffentlichung dieses Albums zu zitieren, haben die drei Meisterimprovisatoren John Abercrombie, Dave Holland und Jack DeJohnette auf ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Werk unter dem Namen Gateway einen unvergleichlichen Ansatz des Triozusammenspiels ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Ruta and Daitya is jazz album by pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded in May 1971 and released on ECM Records in 1973—one of Jarrett's rare performances on electric keyboard. Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, who continue their formidable partnership to this day, join forces for an early and unique collaboration. This being the tail end of Jarrett’s electric period with Miles Davis, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Stanko’s first for ECM, and a splendid introduction to the “predatory lyricism” that is the Polish trumpeter’s stylistic trademark. I can only imagine the reactions Tomasz Stanko garnered with Balladyna, his first recording for ECM. The no-holds-barred “First Song” jumps into action with that hard swing that can only come from Dave ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Das 1981 erschienene Debüt des legendären Pianisten von Eberhard Webers Colours Band und später der Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht, präsentierte Rainer Brüninghaus als höchst originellen und eigenwilligen Klangmaler, begleitet von den ECM-Koryphäen Kenny Wheeler am Flügelhorn und Schlagzeuger Jon Christensen sowie dem Oboisten Brynjar Hoff. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Afric Pepperbird wurde in Oslo im September 1970 aufgenommen und am Neujahrstag 1971 veröffentlicht. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später vermittelt es immer noch die Frische und Aufregung von Entdeckungen, die in Echtzeit gemacht werden. Das Album markierte die Ankunft von vier norwegischen Improvisatoren – Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The fabulous Chicago collective focus all their energies in a wide ranging programme embracing a tribute to Mingus, an “Old Southside Street Dance”, echoes of Africa, contemporary composition and free improvising. "Full Force begins in cool breath and ends in scalding heat, the inhalation and exhalation of its own mission. As one comes to expect from any AEC outing, tonal colors are on a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Terje Rypdal ist ein Album des norwegischen Jazzgitarristen Terje Rypdal, das an zwei Tagen im August 1971 aufgenommen und später im Jahr auf ECM veröffentlicht wurde. Das Septett besteht aus der Sängerin Inger Lise Rypdal, dem Saxophonisten Jan Garbarek, dem Oboisten Ekkehard Fintl und der Rhythmusgruppe Bobo Stenson, Arild Andersen und Jon Christensen. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
