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ECM

January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: Assembly Row, Cambodia, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, Drifting, ECM, Elieen Myles, Erato, Grove-Press, insanity, John Nelsons, Mark Favermann, Mette Henriette, Michael Spyres, Nick Seaver, Open-Letter, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Pathetic Literature, Roosters Crow Dogs Cry, The Conversation, University of Chicago Press, Wojciech Tochman

Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “Bordeaux Concert” — A Varied Masterpiece

Given Keith Jarrett’s current disability, this new ECM recording is an unexpected gift to his fans.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bordeaux Concert, ECM, Keith Jarrett, Michael Ullman

Jazz Album Review: Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch’s Winning “The Song Is You” — Suffused With Tact and Grace

The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: ECM, Enrico Rava, Fred Hersch, Michael Ullman, The Song is You

Jazz Album Review: Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr. Go “Face à Face”

To my ears, these beautifully recorded improvisations — with their unique sequences of tones and subtle interactions — are never less than intriguing.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Barre Phillips, ECM, Face à Face, György Kurtág Jr.

Jazz Album Review: Avishai Cohen’s “Naked Truth” — Meditating on the Last Things

To this listener, the quartet generates a drama of gradual enlightenment, as if extroversion signified some sort of illumination.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Avishai Cohen, ECM, Michael Ulmann, Naked Truth, Yonathan Avishai

Jazz Album Reviews: Andrew Cyrille and Amir ElSaffar — Two Restless Spirits

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.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Amir ElSaffar, Andrew Cyrille Quartet, ECM, Outnote Records, Steve Feeney, The Other Shore

Jazz Album Reviews: James Brandon Lewis and Vijay Iyer — Discoveries and Searches

New discs from James Brandon Lewis and Vijay Iyer merit serious attention from admirers of improvised music.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: ECM, James Brandon Lewis, Jesup Wagon, Linda May Han Oh, Red Lilly Quintet, Steve Feeney, Tao Forms, Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy, Vijay Iyer

Arts Remembrance: At 40, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’s “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls” Still Enthralls

Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls, ECM, Lyle Mays, Nana Vasconcelos, Pat Metheny

Jazz Album Review: Nik Bärtsch’s “Entendre” — Zen Funk

To my ears, the pieces in Entendre are fascinating, if not particularly funky.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: ECM, Entendre, Nik Bärtsch

Jazz Album Review: “Garden of Expression” — Virtuosic Meditations

It’s easy to single out each of these musicians, but listeners will hear the three as nearly one, which is surely what this trinity intended.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Carmen Castaldi, ECM, Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Trio Tapestry

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