ECM
This new album from Norma Winstone and Kit Downes is a marvel.
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What seems remarkable here is the way that trumpeter Tomasz Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges, including flickers of wit, with the other members of the quartet.
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A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.
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Two new releases, led respectively by a saxophonist and a bassist, add to the growing mystique of trios in contemporary jazz.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Given Keith Jarrett’s current disability, this new ECM recording is an unexpected gift to his fans.
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The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.
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To my ears, these beautifully recorded improvisations — with their unique sequences of tones and subtle interactions — are never less than intriguing.
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To this listener, the quartet generates a drama of gradual enlightenment, as if extroversion signified some sort of illumination.
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It might seem a stretch to pair drummer Andrew Cyrille’s disc with composer/trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s. But both spent time under the tutelage of the redoubtable Cecil Taylor, and it shows.
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