Reviews
Dans les arbres: Canopée
Xavier Charles | Ivar Grydeland | Christian Wallumrød | Ingar Zach
Collectively written, this may well come across as contemporary classical music. However, essentially it's an introspective improv approach by this...
Reviewed in issue September/2012
Jan Garbarek: Danser
Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Terje Rypdal | Bobo Stenson | Palle Danielson | Arild Andersen
This new box set in ECM's Old & New Masters series marks a welcome return to the catalogue of Sart...
Reviewed in issue September/2012
Album Interview: Terje Rypdal: Odyssey: In Studio In Concert
Released under the Old & New Masters umbrella, this is a must-buy CD. Its importance is manifold. Firstly, the, epic...
Reviewed in issue September/2012
Keith Jarrett: Sleeper — Tokyo, April 16, 1979
Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Keith Jarrett | Palle Danielsson
There's something very moving about this double album. It's not just that it has emerged after 33 years albeit with...
Reviewed in issue August/2012
Louis Sclavis Trio: Sources
Benjamin Moussay | Louis Sclavis | Gilles Coronado
This is Sclavis' ninth album for ECM and quite unlike any previous recordings. In an interview with France's Jazz Magazine...
Reviewed in issue August/2012
Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio: Sources
Benjamin Moussay | Louis Sclavis | Gilles Coronado
This is French reedsman Louis Sclavis' ninth album for ECM, but his first with this particular set of collaborators. There's...
Reviewed in issue August/2012
Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria
Joey Baron | Kuhn | Steve Swallow
A surprisingly straightahead record for ECM, evoking not the clichéd idea of what constitues an ECM trio album but the...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song
Joey Baron | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | Drew Gress
“[ECM boss] Manfred Eicher and I had been talking for a while about doing an album that might pay homage...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Fly: Year of the Snake
Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Mark Turner
This is Fly's second album for ECM, and displays pleasing signs of artistic growth, displayed most obviously in ensemble cohesion...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Ketil Bjørnstad: Songs From the Alder Thicket
There is something of the eternal storyteller about Bjørnstad, whether in literature or music, with his seemingly endless desire to...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
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