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CD ECM Records Marc Johnson's Bass Desires: Second Sight
In stocMartie 1987
Marc Johnson - contrabas
Bill Frisell - chitara electrica
John Scofield - chitara electrica
Peter Erskine - tobe
ecmreviews:
"This sophomore effort from Marc Johnson’s Bass Desires comes nowhere near the octane levels of the project’s wild self-titled debut. This doesn’t mean, however, that Second Sight is no less enthralling. Its strength lies in its personnel. Guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield seem so well made for each other that, were they not split between the left and right channels, respectively, they might as well be thought of as some bizarre 12-stringed chunk of genius. How can we, for instance, not be moved by the sentiment of “Small Hands” and the resonant eddies of “Sweet Soul”? The latter, with its touch of Pat Metheny brightness, is especially moving. And let us not bypass the unassuming opener, “Crossing The Corpus Callosum.” Here the guitars dance on edge over the rolling hills of Peter Erskine’s drums and Johnson’s bass.
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- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Pat Metheny Group: First Circle
In stoc1984
Pat Metheny - chitara electrica si acustica, Synclavier
Lyle Mays - instrumente cu claviaturi, sintetizatoare, trompeta
Steve Rodby - bas
Pedro Aznar - chitara, percutie, voce
Paul Wertico - tobe
AllMusic: " In First Circle, the Pat Metheny Group settled into a lineup that lasted for quite a while -- with Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Steve Rodby, and new drummer Paul Wertico forming the core quartet. The ever-restless Metheny also mixes up the music, not quite leaving the Brazilian glide behind but coming up with some fascinating permutations always affixed with his personal stamp. "Forward March," the album opener, is a bizarre parody full of detuned instruments and half-cocked trumpet from Mays; one wonders if this was directed at a few silly skirmishes of the day (Grenada? the Falklands?).
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- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Oregon: Ecotopia
In stoc1987
Trilok Gurtu - tabla, percutie
Paul McCandless - oboi, saxofon sopran, sintetizatoare
Glen Moore - contrabas
Ralph Towner - chitara clasica si double-six, pian, sintetizatoare, drum-machine
ecmreviews: "The stars of Ecotopia, Oregon’s third and final album for ECM and one wounded by the absence of Colin Walcott, are undoubtedly Ralph Towner and Paul McCandless. One could easily be content in listening to just the two of them for the album’s 50-minute duration, pairing so gorgeously as they do on tracks like “Zephyr.” As it is, we get a rich sound palette that, while a definite shift from what came before, speaks to a mode of experimentation that is therapeutic and adventurous.
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- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette: Gateway
In stocMartie 1975
John Abercrombie - chitara electrica
Dave Holland - contrabas
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
"With this record, John Abercrombie both repaved and detoured from his staid path. He could hardly have been in finer company, and the combination seems to have fanned all sorts of flames within him. DeJohnette and Holland string an array of tightropes across which Abercrombie balances his way into previously uncharted territory. [ ecmreviews ]
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CD ECM Records Jan Garbarek: I Took Up The Runes
1990
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
Rainer Bruninghaus - pian
Eberhard Weber - bas electric
Nana Vasconcelos - percutie
Manu Katche - tobe
Bugge Wesseltoft - sintetizator
Ingor Antte Ailu Gaup - voce
ecmreviews:
"By 1990, Jan Garbarek had for decades been searching for that one key, navigating a landscape of peaks and valleys, only to find it slumbering within the runes which, with this album, he eponymously took up. [...]
Balancing note and movement, Garbarek hones something truly special in the five-part “Molde Canticle,” which draws out the album’s deepest anatomies. Above all, the piece is about time. It speaks in a language that moves us. The gyroscopic quality of Part 2 hums around the centrifugal force of Garbarek’s lyricism as he scales ever higher.
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CD ECM Records Paul Motian: Conception Vessel
1972
Paul Motian - percutie
Keith Jarrett - pian, flaut
Charlie Haden - contrabas
Sam Brown - chitara
Leroy Jenkins - vioara
Becky Friend - flaut
With ECM’s encouragement drummer Paul Motian takes his first steps as project leader and composer, and an extraordinary album is realized.
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- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Paul Bley: Open, To Love
In stocSeptembrie 1972
Paul Bley - pian
One of the most influential recordings in the history of jazz piano, Paul Bley’s solo album thoughtfully explores the compositions of Carla Bley and Annette Peacock.
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CD ECM Records Trio Music: Live in Europe
1986
Chick Corea - pian
Miroslav Vitous - contrabas
Roy Haynes - tobe
The revival of Chick Corea’s great 1960s trio with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes was one of the important jazz events of the early 80s. This set, recorded live in Germany and Switzerland in 1984, includes original material by all trio members, standards, and Scriabin’s Prelude Nr. 2.
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CD ECM Records Kenny Wheeler: Double Double You
In stoc1983
Kenny Wheeler - trompeta, flugelhorn
Michael Brecker - saxofon tenor
John Taylor - pian
Dave Holland - contrabas
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
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Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every minute of this 1983 session. Wheeler and Michael Brecker make a very fine, mutually-inspiring frontline, and Double, Double You also draws upon several long-established creative relationships. Wheeler and Holland had been close musical associates since the 1960s. Holland and DeJohnette established themselves as one of the great rhythm sections in Miles Davis’s band and on many ECM discs (including Kenny’s Gnu High and Deer Wan). And Wheeler and Taylor were forever in each other’s groups, at the time of this recording also playing in the trio Azimuth.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records John Surman, John Warren: The Brass Project
In stoc1992
John Surman - saxofon sopran si bariton, alto si bas clarinet, pian
Henry Lowther, Steve Waterman, Stuart Brooks - trompeta
Malcolm Griffiths, Chris Pyne- trombon
David Stewart, Richard Edwards - trombon bas
Chris Laurence - contrabas
John Marshall - tobe, percutie
John Warren - dirijor
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The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman’s improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to contribute compositions and to conduct the group, the Brass Project quickly evolved into a more organic large ensemble, and by the time of this 1992 recording had become one of the most creative configurations in Britain. The elegant arrangements of Warren’s and Surman’s profoundly melodic music inspire many eloquent and touching solos.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Stephan Micus: To The Evening Child
In stoc1992
Stephan Micus - steel drum, voce, dilruba, suling, kortholt, nay, sinding
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Stephan Micus shapes his music by taking the instruments of the world out of their cultural, historical or traditional contexts and blending them in new ways. The colours of To The Evening Child are established through instrumental combinations involving dilruba (a string instrument associated with Hindustani classical music), suling (reed flute of the Balinese gamelan orchestra), nay (end-blown flute of the Middle East), sinding (West African harp), kortholt (German renaissance reed instrument) and steel drum (associated with West Indian calypso). “This music sounds in those hushed spaces where the universe inhales, the sound that keeps all celestial bodies spinning” – Tyran Grillo, Between Sound and Space
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: World
CD ECM Records David Torn: Cloud About Mercury
In stoc1986
David Torn - chitara acustica si electrics
Mark Isham - trompeta, flugelhorn, sintetizatoare
Tony Levin - Chapman stick, synth bass
Bill Bruford - tobe, sintetizatoare, percutie
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“Everything is in a state of transition,” David Torn explained. “Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change.” The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose sonorities are closely related to progressive rock (the rhythm section is half of one incarnation of King Crimson) and to the experimental end of ambient music. Drummer Bill Bruford’s affection for this album is undying: “To this day, Torn’s guitar on ‘Three Minutes of Pure Entertainment’ from Cloud About Mercury makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.”
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD Naim Allegri String Quartet w Prunella Pacey: Mozart
In stoc1994
Allegri Quartet:
David Roth - vioara
Peter Carter - vioara
Bruno Schrecker - violoncel
Jonathan Barritt - viola
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Prunella Pacey - viola
Mozart - Quintet In C Major, K 515
Mozart - Quintet In G Minor, K 516
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Clasica
CD Naim The Eberle Quartet: Gates, Bridge, Barber
In stoc1997
Eberle Quartet:
Jennifer Gibbs - vioara
Daphne Moody - vioara
Muriel Daniels - violoncel
Moira Alabaster - viola
Philip Gates: String Quartet No. 1 In A Minor
Frank Bridge: Three Idylls
Frank Bridge: Noveletten
Samuel Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Clasica
CD Naim Havard Gimse, Henning Kraggerud: Schubert, Schumann
In stoc2006
Havard Gimse - pian
Henning Kraggerud - viola
Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D 821
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata In A Minor D 784
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Clasica
CD ECM Records Arild Andersen: The Triangle
In stoc2003
Arild Andersen contrabas
Vassilis Tsabropoulos pian
John Marshall tobe
For a player with a background in classical music, pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos has done wonders in the realm of jazz, and specifically improvisation. He still plays with a precise, sensitive touch and measures out dissonance in carefully metered pinches, but the tidal ebb and flow that characterizes this trio recording stands as remarkable evidence that he’s made the transition completely and elegantly. .. All three musicians on Triangle are active and forward players. John Marshall favors reinforcing the beat… Andersen, who has 15 recordings to his credit as a leader, plays with the confidence of a seasoned veteran and utilizes his deft and limber dexterity to connect the dots in counterintuitive ways.
A top pick of 2004
Nils Jacobson, All about Jazz
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Edward Vesala: Lumi
1986
Edward Vesala Drums, Percussion
Esko Heikkinen Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet
Pentti Lahti Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Flutes
Jorma Tapio Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute
Tapani Rinne Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Kari Heinilä Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Tom Bildo Trombone, Tuba
Iro Haarla Piano, Harp
Raoul Björkenheim Guitar
Taito Vainio Accordion
Häkä Bass
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Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative co-arranger Iro Haarla on piano and harp. “Each piece is full of melodic ideas, brilliantly scored”, wrote The Wire. A range of moods is explored, from the impressionist tone poem “The Wind” to the playful Finnish tango “Fingo,” and guitarist Raoul Björkenheim solos powerfully.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Bennie Maupin: The Jewel In The Lotus
In stoc1974
Bennie Maupin Reeds, Voice, Glockenspiel
Herbie Hancock Piano, Electric Piano
Buster Williams Bass
Frederick Waits Drums, Marimba
Billy Hart Drums
Bill Summers Percussion
Charles Sullivan Trumpet
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This is the first time on CD for a long-unavailable collectors’ item. With The Jewel in the Lotus, Maupin, the great multireedman, produced something visionary and, for some perhaps, joltingly unexpected: a series of mostly rubato aural paintings using piano, electric piano, bass, three drummers, multitracked saxophone, bass clarinet and flute, and trumpet on two tracks. … Soloists include Herbie Hancock and Maupin, but this is a composer’s work; ad libs and interplay notwithstanding, the ensemble is paramount.
Ray Comiskey, Irish Times
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto: Love, Love
1973
Julian Priester Trombones, Horns, Whistle Flute, Syntheziers
Pat Gleeson Syntheziers
Hadley Caliman Flute, Saxophones, Bass Clarinet
Bayete Umbra Zindiko Pianos, Clavinet
Nyimbo Henry Franklin Basses
Ndugu Leon Chancler Drums
Mguanda David Johnson Flute, Soprano Saxophone
Kamau Eric Gravatt Drums, Congas
Bill Connors Electric Guitar
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After leaving Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band trombonist Julian Priester and synthesizer pioneer Dr Patrick Gleeson put together this now-legendary album in two sessions in 1973. Extending the experiments of the Hancock sextet this music can also be related to Miles Davis’s robust Afro-funk-slanted electric group music of the period. Pumping bass ostinati, riffs and a big ‘tribal’ beat connect Love, Love to the music of Sly Stone and Funkadelic as well, while the shifting clouds of spacey improvising can also make a listener think of minimal music or Sun Ra. More than 40 years later this slice of proto-cyberfunk is still thoroughly enjoyable and timely.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Art Lande, Jan Garbarek: Red Lanta
In stoc1973
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran, flaut din lemn
Art Lande - piano
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Recorded in a Stockholm church in 1979, Aftenland documents a fascinating encounter between Jan Garbarek, improviser par excellence, and classical organist Kjell Johnsen. “Preparing and realizing Aftenland was one of the most interesting experiences in my entire career,” Johnsen has said. “A major artistic achievement”, wrote Contemporary Keyboard.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
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