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 | Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson: The Bass In The Background (CD: Storyville)
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Gary Peacock: December Poems (CD: ECM)
with Jan Garbarek.
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 | Gary Peacock: Tales of Another (CD: ECM)
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Barre Phillips: Mountainscapes (CD: ECM)
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 | Barre Phillips: Aquarian Rain (CD: ECM)
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Marc Johnson: Bass Desires (CD: ECM Touchstones)
The bassist was the bandleader but the group’s debut, Marc Johnson insisted “was really about the two guitarists” – Bill Frisell with his swathes of sound and unexpected sonic twists and John Scofield with his grittier urban jazz-blues approach.This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records)
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 | Marc Johnson's Bass Desires: Second Sight (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Bass Desires evolves into a real group on its second showing, with all participants now contributing material. Inspirational sources include soul, blues, country and pop as well as jazz but instrumental interplay is more refined.This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records)
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Miroslav Vitous: Emergence (CD: ECM)
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 | Miroslav Vitous: First Meeting (CD: ECM)
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Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations (CD: ECM)
with Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, & Jack DeJohnette.
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 | Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations II (CD: ECM)
A follow-up to the hugely successful 2003 Universal Syncopations, this new album by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous features a stellar line-up with some of the leading modern jazz soloists of the post-‘fusion’ era: Randy Brecker, Bob Malach, Bob Mintzer, Gary Campbell – all making their ECM debuts. It explores a wider musical range than the first CD, with choirs looming out of the mix and orchestral colours swirling around the shifting cast of nine jazz musicians. (New Note)
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Miroslav Vitous Group w / Michel Portal: Remembering Weather Report (CD: ECM)
Vitous was one of the founders of Weather Report and helped to shape its early (and revolutionary) mix of enigmatic, free-flowing compositions and high-level improvisational dialogues, in which all the instruments enjoyed parity. It is this formative period that Miroslav salutes with his all-acoustic band and some phenomenal playing. The obvious musical empathy between Vitous and drummer Gerald Cleaver is a joy, Ambrosetti and Campbell contribute inspired solos – as does guest Michel Portal, another iconic figure in the history of the music. Material, almost exclusively from Vitous’s pen, alludes to Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti” and to Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” – as well as to Miles Davis and Antonín Dvorak. (ECM Records)
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 | Arild Anderson Group: Electra (CD: ECM)
The great contemporary bass player, Arild Andersen has lined up some starry names in the 10-strong group on his new album featuring his poignant music for a recent Greek production of Sophocles’ revenge tragedy, Electra – among them, extraordinary Greek singer Savina Yannatou, and fellow Norwegians Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter Molvær. (New Note)
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Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith & Paolo Vinaccia: Live At Belleville (CD: ECM)
Live recording of Arild Andersen’s exciting new trio, playing in Oslo’s Belleville club and at the Drammen Theatre, spurred on by an enthusiastic crowd. Apart from Duke Ellington’s “Prelude To A Kiss”, played with much feeling by Tommy Smith, the music is all written by Andersen, and it burns. “Live At Belleville” may be Arild’s most powerful trio recording since “Triptykon” with Garbarek and Vesala, back in 1972. (ECM Records)
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 | Arild Andersen: Green In Blue- Early Quartets (CD: ECM, 3 CDs)
Box set in ECM’s acclaimed Old & New Masters series reintroduces Arild Andersen’s first three leader dates for the label – “Clouds In My Head”, “Shimri”, and “Green Shading Into Blue”. Recorded between 1975 and 1978, none of these albums has previously been issued on compact disc, and this edition is eagerly awaited. The music traces Andersen’s personal evolution from ‘free’-inclined bassist to bandleader-composer and introduces some players who would prove important for the future of the music – amongst them an 18-year-old Jon Balke on the “Clouds” session. (ECM Records)
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John Patitucci: Line By Line (CD: Universal)
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 | John Patitucci Trio: Remembrance (CD: Concord)
Given that jazz bass players are typically cast as part of the rhythm support team, only a handful of them have become leaders in their own right. Taking the lead from such jazz masters as Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, Ron Carter and Dave Holland who pioneered the advance of the bass, the next generation of acoustic and electric bassists have been crafting musical statements in leadership roles.At the top of that class is acoustic and electric bassist John Patitucci, who delivers his latest Concord Jazz project, Remembrance, a remarkable outing of 11 straight-ahead-to-funky-to-classical-tinged originals featuring an astounding trio comprising saxophone maestro Joe Lovano and brilliant drummer Brian Blade. Almost every tune is dedicated to a musician, hence the title. The CD is the bassist's 13th as a leader and seventh for Concord. (Concord Music Group)
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