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 | Metropole Orkest & Vince Mendoza featuring John Scofield: 54 (CD: EmArcy)
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Food: Quiet Inlet (CD: ECM)
Food has defined a new kind of lyrical electro-acoustic improvisation in the course of its twelve year existence. Founded as a quartet in 1998, since 2006 the group has been a core duo of UK saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen joined by guests for diverse projects. At the Molde Jazz Festival and the Oslo Blå club in 2007/8 their guests were trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, well known to ECM followers, and Austrian improvising guitarist Christian Fennesz, making his label debut. The resultant music, with melodic improvising, trancelike pulses, and shifting clouds of sound is highly attractive. (ECM Records)
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 | Tommaso Starace Quartet: Don't Forget (CD: Edizioni Musicali Brocca)
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Tommaso Starace: Plays The Photos Of Elliott Erwitt (CD: Frame)
'Tommaso Starace Plays the Photos of Elliott Erwitt' is an album inspired by the photos of the great Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt, featuring Liam Noble, Roger Beaujolais, Jim Hart & Julian Bury.
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 | Bendik Hofseth: XI (CD: Grappa)
XI reunites tenor saxophonist Bendik Hofseth and vibist Mike Manieriand and it marks the return to the recording studio for the Norwegian jazz musician who burst upon the international jazz scene in the 1980s. Hofseth first made a name for himself internationally when, in 1987, Mike Manieri invited him to replace Michael Brecker in one of the super groups of jazz, the New York-based Steps Ahead. In 2008 he went back to New York to record this new album with Mike Mainieri and some of his colleagues from the 1980s. XI features new versions of tracks from many of his solo albums. From a selection of 110 songs he has chosen the ones that he has enjoyed playing live the most, and so it sums up not just the records but the live experience as well.Recorded at Avatar Studios in New York and mixed at Rainbow Studios in Oslo, Hofseth’s playing and compositions reveal the influence of the time he spent as a member of Steps Ahead as well as that of his compatriot, the saxophonist Jan Garbarek. (Proper Music)
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Julia Hülsmann Trio: The End Of A Summer (CD: ECM)
First ECM release for a trio with a strong following. Julia Hülsmann founded her group in 1997 and it has become, with its strongly melodic and inventive music, one of the most popular groups on the German jazz scene. Hülsmann is a first-rate jazz composer as well as an incisive pianist, a poetic sense of compression distinguishing both her writing and her improvising. Album features six new tunes by Hülsmann plus pieces also by her trio partners – plus a cover of Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose”. (ECM Records)
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 | Roberto Magris Europlane featuring Tony Lakatos: Check-In (CD: Soul Note)
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Roberto Magris Europlane featuring Herb Geller: Il Bello Del Jazz (CD: Soul Note)
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 | Alboran Trio: Near Gale (CD: ACT)
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Marilyn Mazur: Elixir (CD: ECM)
An album of solos and intimate duos with, as its starting point, the sound of Marilyn Mazur’s percussion instruments, collected from all over the world – each of them allowed to “speak” with its own voice – either alone or in dialogue with Jan Garbarek’s saxophones. The Danish percussionist spent 14 years on the road with the Jan Garbarek Group, appearing on albums including “I Took Up The Runes”, “Twelve Moons”, “Visible Worlds” and “Rites”, but “Elixir” marks the first time that Mazur has established the parameters for their musical collaboration. In these improvisations she continually triggers new responses from Garbarek: yearning melodies, joyful dances, meditations. (ECM Records)
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 | Albert Mangelsdorff: Triplicity (CD: Skip)
With Arild Andersen (bass) & Pierre Favre (drums).
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Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa (CD: ECM)
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 | Iro Haarla: Northbound (CD: ECM)
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Enrico Rava: The Pilgrim And The Stars (CD: ECM Touchstones)
The Italian trumpeter’s ECM debut with a band featuring John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. Rava’s evocative compositions, including the meanwhile classic ballad “Blancasnow”, inspire strong solos and spirited interaction.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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 | Enrico Rava: Easy Living (CD: ECM)
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Enrico Rava Quintet: The Words And The Days (CD: ECM)
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 | Enrico Rava & Steffano Bollani: The Third Man (CD: ECM)
They have been playing together since the early 1990s, Bollani hailing trumpeter Rava as his mentor, and Rava regarding Bollani as “perhaps the most gifted pianist since Art Tatum”. After Rava’s highly acclaimed “Easy Living” (quintet featuring Bollani) and the Rava/Bollani/Paul Motian collaboration “Tati”, comes this superb duo set, recorded in Lugano in November 2006. Here is marvellous linear playing and melodies plucked from the air, two master improvisers making freely lyrical jazz together – inspired by jazz history, South American music (an important source for both musicians), the Italian song tradition, contemporary composition and more, all developed, under Manfred Eicher’s supervision, into a unique programme. The repertoire includes compositions by each of the protagonists, two takes of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s famous ballad “Retrato Em Branco Y Preto”, a reinvention of “Estate” by the Italian singer Bruno Martino (whose own inspirations included Neapolitan folk song as well as jazz ) and spontaneous –yet profoundly melodic – free improvisation on the title track. (ECM Records)
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Enrico Rava: New York Days (CD: ECM)
A new transatlantic quintet headed by Italian trumpeter Rava, recorded in New York in 2008 and a first ECM appearance for US tenorist Mark Turner, whose distilled, lean sound references Coltrane, Warne Marsh, Wayne Shorter and others. Turner’s searching, analytical tone is in marked contrast to Enrico’s lyrical flourishes, but the two make a fascinating pairing - especially with the resolutely musical pianist Stefano Bollani finding points of contact, and making his own statements. Add in the gifted bassist Larry Grenadier (last heard on ECM with Charles Lloyd) and that most unpredictable of all drummers, Paul Motian, and you have here a truly remarkable band. (ECM Records)
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 | Stefano Bollani: Stone In The Water (CD: ECM)
“Stone in the Water” features the brilliant Italian pianist’s “Danish trio”, a group that has been honing its improvisational understanding for six years already. Bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund (both making ECM debuts) draw on a still longer association, having collaborated closely for more than 15 years. The three players move, with immense subtlety, through a fascinating programme that includes new pieces by Bollani and Bodilsen, plus ballads by Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Poulenc’s “Improvisation 13 en mineur”, bringing fresh colours to the piano trio genre. (ECM Records)
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Edward Vesala: Ode To The Death Of Jazz (CD: ECM)
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 | Edward Vesala Sound & Fury: Invisible Storm (CD: ECM)
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Edward Vesala Sound & Fury: Nordic Gallery (CD: ECM)
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 | Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous & Jack DeJohnette (CD: ECM Touchstones)
The Norwegian guitarist is lifted to new heights by the wildly inventive playing of Miroslav Vitous and Jack DeJohnette. Cascades of sound prevail.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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Terje Rypdal: Waves (CD: ECM)
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 | Terje Rypdal: Vossabrygg (CD: ECM)
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Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene (CD: ECM)
An exciting departure for ECM veteran Rypdal, this extended work, commissioned for the 2009 Bergen Festival, begins with a sound of swirling massed horns likely to bring Coltrane to mind. There is more than a hint of “Ascension” in the opening moments of “Crime Scene”, a work paced like a mystery thriller. The music surrounds the Rypdal quartet with Mikkelborg, Storløkken and Vinnaccia (all of whom recently appeared on the critically-acclaimed “Vossabrygg”) with a 17-piece jazz big band and keeps the action moving at a fast pace. Allaboutjazz reviewed the Bergen premiere: “Rypdal was in fine form...Whether he was playing with a slide or his fingers, his ice-edged tone was instantly recognizable. As was Mikkelborg's, who played trumpet (muted with a Harmon mute at times) and flugelhorn, and making clear his own reference point in Miles Davis...” (ECM Records)
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 | Tomasz Stanko: Balladyna (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Stanko’s first for ECM, and a splendid introduction to the “predatory lyricism” that is the Polish trumpeter’s stylistic trademark.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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Tomasz Stanko: From The Green Hill (CD: ECM)
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 | Tomasz Stanko: Leosia (CD: ECM)
'One of the finest jazz records of recent times, a work of immense creative concentration made by a band at the peak of its powers.' (The Penguin Guide To Jazz)The second ECM album from this Polish-Swedish-British edition of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet follows the critically-heralded Matka Joanna. As Jazz Journal wrote, "Trumpeter Stanko's vibrant breadth of tone and poetic feeling for cross-rhythmic drama are second to none." Leosia marks a further progression, incorporating six first-rate Stanko compositions in his brooding "Slavic" style, darker than the darkest Miles (and incorporating a tribute to Lautréamont, literature's Count of Darkness), as well as bracing and exploratory duo and trio improvisations, and solos of the higherst calibre by all concerned. The group has an unusual claim on idiomatic completeness; it seems to summarize, in highly original manner, many of the important developments of jazz of the last 30 years. Stanko, however, distances himself from the general drift toward reinterpretation of standards in the 1990s. His bent notes, slurs, smears and violent fanfares are put to the service of a new group music. (ECM Records) A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Suspended Night (CD: ECM)
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 | Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Lontano (CD: ECM)
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Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes (CD: ECM)
Tomasz Stanko’s smouldering Slavic soul music and grainy-toned trumpet finds a new context on “Dark Eyes”. Like his hero Miles Davis, the Polish jazz master also has an impressive record as talent scout and mentor, and his latest ensemble pools young players from the North of Europe. Tomasz has had strong connections to Finland in particular since the early 1970s when he was part of Edward Vesala’s creative circle. Now he welcomes two prodigiously gifted Finns into his group, pianist Alexi Tuomarila and drummer Olavi Louhivuori, both expressive and imaginative players. On “Dark Eyes”, Jakob Bro, the young guitarist heard on ECM on Paul Motian’s “Garden of Eden” is cast most often in the role of subtle colourist, while fellow Dane Anders Christensen, on electric bass throughout, provides the band’s throbbing pulse. The programme features new Stanko compositions, including “The Dark Eyes of Martha Hirsch”, inspired by an Oskar Kokoschka canvas, plus a new version of “Last Song” from Tomasz ECM debut “Balladyna”, as well as “Dirge for Europe” and “Etiuda baletowa nr. 3” from the pen of Krzysztof Komeda. (ECM Records)
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 | Dino Saluzzi: Kultrum (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Argentinean bandoneon master’s ECM debut album is a spellbinding solo tour de force, tracing an ‘imaginary return’ to the villages of Dino’s childhood, as elements of folk tunes and other root sounds are integrated into the floating rubato of tango.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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Dino Saluzzi Group: Mojotoro (CD: ECM)
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 | William Breuker: Psalm 122 (CD: BVHAAST)
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Christian Rover Group: Live With Rhoda Scott (CD: Organic Music)
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 | Tineke Postma Quartet: First Avenue (CD: Munich Records)
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Tineke Postma: For The Rhythm (CD: Munich Records)
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 | Tineke Postma: A Journey That Matters (CD: Foreign Jazz Media)
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Jacques Loussier: Play Bach No.1 (CD: Decca/ Universal)
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 | Jacques Loussier Trio: Bach's Goldberg Variations (CD: Telarc Jazz)
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Louis Sclavis Quintet: L'Affrontement des Pretendants (CD: ECM)
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 | Louis Sclavis: Lost On The Way (CD: ECM)
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Toots Thielemans: Verve Jazz Masters 59 (CD: Verve)
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 | Toots Thielemans: Only Trust Your Heart (CD: Concord)
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Toots Thielemans: One More For The Road (CD: Verve)
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 | Italian Instabile Orchestra: Litania Sibilante (CD: Enja)
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Michel Petrucciani: Days Of Wine And Roses- The Owl Years 1981-1985 (CD: Owl, 2CDs)
Days Of Wine And Roses is a 2 CD set that includes 15 tracks artfully selected by the producer Jean-Jacques Pussiau from the six albums that the French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani recorded for the Owl Records label between 1981 and 1985. Michel Petrucciani had an international following and his keyboard virtuosity earned him comparisons to Art Tatum and Bill Evans. He died in New York in 1999 at the age of 36. (New Note)
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 | Michel Petrucciani featuring Jim Hall & Wayne Shorter: The Power Of Three (CD: Blue Note)
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Michel Petrucciani: Great Sessions (CD: Blue Note, 3 CDs)
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 | Michel Camilo: Live At The Blue Note (CD: Telarc Jazz, 2 CDs)
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Michel Camilo: Solo (CD: Telarc Jazz)
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 | Misha Alperin/ Arkady Shilkloper: Wave of Sorrow (CD: ECM)
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Misha Alperin with John Surman: First Impression (CD: ECM)
Off-the-cuff interplay and melodic creativity are uppermost in this spontaneously-organised session in which the great British reedman John Surman meets Ukrainian pianist Misha Alperin for the first time. Based now in Oslo, Alperin has become a central figure on the Sandinavian scene, and assembled an impressive "Nordic" jazz band, that includes the great Jon Christensen on drums. (ECM Records)'One of the quietist and most contemplative records you could ever hope to encounter'. (The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD)
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 | Misha Alperin: Her First Dance (CD: ECM)
Ukrainian pianist Misha Alperin returns with another gorgeous trio record for ECM, this time with fellow member of the Moscow Art Trio, horn player Arkady Shilkloper and German cellist Anja Lechner of the Rosamunde Quartet. The solos, duos and trios in a programme of many moods feature fascinating, profoundly melodic music with lyricism and dazzling technical skills in abundance. (New Note)
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Scott Robinson & Emil Viklicky Trio: Summertime (CD: Cube Metier)
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 | Enrico Pieranunzi: Fellini Jazz (CD: Cam Jazz)
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Enrico Pieranunzi: Dream Dance (CD: Cam Jazz)
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