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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 Miroslav Vitous, Jan Garbarek: ATMOS
In stoc1992
Miroslav Vitous - contrabas
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
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“Jan Garbarek is my favorite sax player,” Miroslav Vitous has said. “We have an incredible musical rapport and you can hear it. He understands my Slavic melodies and what I use for atmosphere because he’s European and his father was Polish, which is very close to me. I’m from Czechoslovakia. Our musical communication is astonishing: we each sense what the other is about to play.” Atmos, recorded 1992, features seven compositions by Vitous and two freely improvised pieces, yet sounds like the product of a shared mind, so well-matched are the expressive approaches of bassist and saxophonist.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Eberhard Weber: Colours (3 CD-Box)
In stoc1975-1980
Eberhard Weber - bas
Rainer Bruninghaus - claviaturi
Charlie Mariano - saxofon sopran, shenai, nagaswaram
Jon Christensen - tobe
John Marshall - tobe, percutie
Acest set reuneste trei albume inregistrate de Eberhard Weber cu grupul Colors ( Yellow Fields, Silent Feet si Little Movements ). Muzica este mai mult indreptata spre jazz-rock decat spre jazz, in spiritul anilor 70 ( Marshall a fost protagonist in grupul prog-rock Nucleus )
- Numar discuri: 3
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD Naim Charlie Haden, Chris Anderson: None But The Lonely Heart
In stoc1997
Charlie Haden - contrabas
Chris Anderson - pian
The result of three days of intensive rehearsal and recording by pianist Chris Anderson and bassist Charlie Haden, this 1997 album is a feat of improvisation and spontaneity.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ACT Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Tuesday Wonderland SACD
In stoc2006
Esbjorn Svensson - pian, claviaturi, electronice
Dan Berglund - bas, electronice
Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie, electronice
Though there are traditional elements at work, Tuesday Wonderland thrives on being unconventional. On the opening track "Fading Maid Pendulum," just as it's hypnotizing with a gentle, classically tinged piano melody, Dan Berglund jumps in with a brooding, distorted heavy metal bass craziness and drummer Magnus Ostrom goes cymbal crazy. It's electro-ambient jazz gone mad. The title track features Svensson's David Benoit-like, melodic dark-meets-light piano dichotomy over Ostrom's sharp, off-meter drums before some spacy electronica takes over for a spell. "Brewery of Beggars" is another inspired dose of insanity, darting from busy cymbal-piano swirls to softer, contemplative piano-bass moments. [ AllMusic ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Ralph Towner: Batik
In stoc1978
Ralph Towner - chitara, pian
Eddie Gomez - contrabas
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
There are certain images that seem fail-proof when musically evoked. The “Waterwheel” that inaugurates us into guitarist Ralph Towner’s astonishingly beautiful Batik is one of them. Having since been painted for us by such varied talents as Hamza El Din (see the Kronos Quartet’s Pieces of Africa) and Marina Belica (former leader of the October Project, of which their self-titled debut is a personal all-time favorite), Towner’s particular configuration embodies the best of all worlds with the precision of his fingers magnified to great effect by Jack DeJohnette on drums and soothingly animated by the bass of Eddie Gomez.
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- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Larry Goldings: Saudades
In stoc2004
Trio Beyond:
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
Larry Goldings - claviaturi
John Scofield - chitara electrica
Trio Beyond reinterpreteaza si reinventeaza muzica grupului Lifetime - aceeasi configuratie ca a celebrului grup compus din Tony Williams, John McLaughlin si Larry Young.
- Numar discuri: 2
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ACT Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Plays Monk
In stoc1996
Esbjorn Svensson - pian
Dan Berglund - bas
Magnus Ostrom - tobe
Ten of the worlds most beloved songs by Thelonious Monk, arguably one of the truly great international piano geniuses have been lovingly laid out here by Esbjörn Svensson, one of the truly great piano talents on the Scandinavian jazz scene, and making their mark around the world as well.
In EST, who previously has released some critically acclaimed albums, we have Magnus Öström on drums, Dan Berglund on double-bass and, of course, Esbjörn Svensson himself, who was an infant, when he practically leaned to walk to the sound of "In Walked Bud". "My father was and is a great jazz lover. So I was very young when I first came in touch with Monk´s music. He’s the kind of composer that can not be avoided", says Esbjörn Svensson.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ACT Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter
In stoc2013
Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie, voce, claviaturi
Andreas Hourdakis - chitara electrica si acustica, banjo
Daniel Karlsson - piano, claviaturi
Thobias Gabrielson - bas electric, bass synthesizer, claviaturi
Given Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson's accidental death in 2008, it's easy to get fixated on the apparent lifting of his drummer (and childhood friend) Magnus Öström's spirits with his second post-EST album as leader. But there's no doubt that the music here is lighter, idiomatically broader and more spontaneous than it was on his Thread of Life in 2011. Searching for Jupiter's textures are intensified by Öström's teenage art-rock interests; some hear Pink Floyd in the layering textures of The Moon (And the Air It Moves). [ The Guardian ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ACT Youn Sun Nah: Voyage
In stocYoun Sun Nah – voce
Ulf Wakenius – chitara
Lars Danielsson – violoncel, contrabas, melodica
Xavier Desandre-Navarre – percutie
Mathias Eick – trompeta
In our time and age, a jazz singer from Korea may still seem like an exotic concept. But anyone who knows how much effort Asian countries invest in education and promotion also knows about the growing circle of jazz fans in the region. So with notable exceptions it’s astounding that there aren’t more artists from Korea or Japan whose names are on everyone’s lips. However, Youn Sun Nah could change all that, and as the first Korean artist exclusively under contract with ACT, anyone listening to her debut album Voyage (ACT 9019-2) will understand why.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Other Side
In stoc2018
Tord Gustavsen - pian
Sigurd Hole - contrabas
Jarle Vespestad - tobe
“This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime,” wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen’s trio’s Being There, released in 2007.
Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats, but on The Other Side - recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in January 2018 – he opens a new chapter in his piano trio story, with faithful drummer Jarle Vespestad, and excellent new bassist Sigurd Hole. Hole’s approach to his instrument, drawing on folk influences as well as modern jazz, is ideally suited to Gustavsen’s slowly-developing, deeply melodic pieces. The album, produced by Manfred Eicher, is issued on the eve of a major tour.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Changeless
In stoc1989
Keith Jarrett - pian
Gary Peacock - contrabas
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
AllMusic:
"One of only a handful of Keith Jarrett "Standards" Trio records without a standard within earshot, this is a triumph, for Jarrett has successfully brought the organically evolving patterns of his solo concerts into the group format.
Each of the first three selections is built upon a constant revolving ostinato, and each evolves from one stage to the next like a Jarrett solo piano improvisation. "Dancing" has a swaying Latin beat in the percussion and bass; "Endless" is full of lyrical invention at a slower tempo; "Lifeline" is catchy and hypnotic; and the fourth number, "Ecstasy," grows out of "Lifeline," closing the album perhaps inevitably with a drawn-out, peaceful piano tremolo.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Tomasz Stanko & Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Lontano
In stoc2006
Tomasz Stanko - trompeta
Marcin Wasilewski - pian
Slawomir Kurkiewicz - contrabas
Michal Miskiewicz - tobe
"This album was recorded at the end of a tour in which frequent collaborators Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and the trio featuring gifted pianist Marcin Wasilewski had begun to investigate more improv-oriented methods, and it's freer and more organically generated than its predecessors.
The title track appears in three long manifestations through the set, with the first part in particular sounding like an all-but-perfect contemporary jazz/improv ensemble piece, developing from slow musings through sputtery, 60s-Miles trumpet eruptions, a series of Hancock-meets-Jarrett surges from Wasilewski, and eventually a subtly insinuating groove. Wasilewski's flowing energy ideally complements Stanko's timing and sense of space, but the whole empathetic foursome sounds more of one mind than ever." [ The Guardian ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Dave Holland Quartet: Extensions
In stoc1989
Dave Holland - contrabas
Steve Coleman - saxofon alto
Kevin Eubanks - chitara electrica
Marvin Smitty Smith - tobe
If you’re like me, then you’re most familiar with this album’s rhythm section from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. From 1995 to 2006, guitarist Kevin Eubanks and drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith were the anchors for said program’s house band. I always knew that Eubanks was a talented musician but felt that his insights were often lost in the muddled acoustics of the NBC studio in which they were situated. These conditions also boded ill, in most cases, for the show’s musical acts. In addition, for the most part Eubanks had his distortion turned high in order to achieve a certain brand of punctuation in his bantering with Leno, but I sometimes noticed that when returning from a commercial break he would be finishing a smooth jazz number, the brilliance of which I could only guess at. It wasn’t until I heard Extensions that I realized just how deep that brilliance goes. [ ecmreviews ]
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- 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 Dominic Miller: Silent Light
In stoc2017
Dominic Miller - chitara, bas electric
Miles Bould - tobe, percutie
Miller's ECM label debut offers a pleasant spin through some colorful tones of the places his travels have taken him. […] Silent Light is a recording as peaceful and evocative as its title suggests: exotic motifs convey moods from several continents, chord structures can be left ambiguous or implied rather than stated, and extra sounds are sprinkled around with a light touch only where they're judged to add something. [Geno Thackara All About Jazz ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Jack DeJohnette: New Directions
In stoc1978
Jack DeJohnette tobe, pian
John Abercrombie chitara, mandolina
Lester Bowie trompeta
Eddie Gomez bas
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New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. “My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters”. He’d worked with Eddie Gomez in the Bill Evans Trio, played extensively with John Abercrombie in the Gateway trio and a new alliance with Art Ensemble trumpeter Lester Bowie reconnected Jack to the experimental spirit of the early AACM. “With Lester added we had four strong and very different characters, could cover a lot of musical areas, and the chemistry was fantastic.” New Directions, recorded in 1978, won France’s Prix du Jazz Contemporain de L’Academie Charles Cros.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Jan Garbarek: Witchi Tai To
In stoc1975
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
Bobo Stenson - pian
Palle Danielsson - bas
Jon Christensen - tobe
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In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted ‘Record of the Year 1974/75’ in Jazz Forum’s poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: “Those who think that contemporary music from Europe lacks soul-fire are hereby advised to listen to Witchi-Tai-To.” Bobo Stenson: “The quartet had a chemistry that I’ve very rarely known, and I look back at the whole period as a happy and creative time.” The wide-open programme includes tunes by Carla Bley and Don Cherry as well as the title track composed by Jim Pepper.
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ACT Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Symphony
In stocMarius Neset - saxofon
Verneri Pohjola - trompeta
Johan Lindstrom - pedal steel
Iiro Rantala - pian
Dan Berglund - bas
Magnus Ostrom - tobe
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra dirijata de Hans Ek
Esbjörn Svensson, the Swedish original who consistently turned crossovers between jazz, pop and classical music into lasting art with EST, would have got around to this orchestral venture himself but for his accidental death in 2008.
With its shapely themes, subtle pacing and big climaxes, his popular trio’s music was ideal material, eloquently confirmed here by arranger Hans Ek, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and four star jazz soloists, including brilliant Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala and Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset. [ The Guardan ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
CD ECM Records Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita
In stoc2009
Anouar Brahem - oud
Klaus Gesing - bas clarinet
Bjorn Meyer - bas electric
Khaled Yassine - darbouka, bendir
Poate cel mai frumos proiect al lui Brahem si unul dintre cele mai bune publicate vreodata de ECM. Brahem lasa putin muzica clasica pentru a aluneca spre jazz si a face loc improvizatiei, mai ales in concerte. Melodiile sunt superbe, iar Gesing si Meyer sunt doi colaboratori stralucitori.
Although Brahem’s music is grounded in the traditions that have grown up around the oud over centuries…, his hybridization of those traditions with the ways of European and American jazz have made his extremely individual canon pointedly modern, and very much an example of a genuine world music. Brahem and Gesing’s beguiling interplay – a mystical poetry… – could not exist without rhythmic drive, supplied here… by Swedish bassist Björn Meyer and Lebanes percussionist Khaled Yassine. … Both he and Meyer drive the lead instrumentalists while also gathering a powerful energy between themselves. Throughout these eight tracks, it’s clear that not only do the clarinet and oud belong together, but the ideas that flow from both players mesh into an emotional and intellectual whole as they thrust and parry in turn, bending toward and away from each other. [ Robert Baird, Stereophile ]
- Numar discuri: 1
- Gen muzica: Jazz
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