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 | Paul Motian: Conception Vessel (CD: ECM Touchstones)
With ECM’s encouragement drummer Paul Motian takes his first steps as project leader and composer, and an extraordinary album is realized.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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Paul Motian: Tribute (CD: ECM Touchstones)
The combination of Paul Motian and Charlie Haden was always a guarantee for magical improvisational interaction, and there is much of it in this attractive line-up with the twinned guitars of Sam Brown and Paul Metzke and Carlos Ward’s alto sax. Motian and Haden had previously collaborated with Brown on Keith Jarrett’s Expectations album and on Carla Bley’s Escalator Over The Hill, and the bassist and drummer had also worked with Carlos Ward on Don Cherry’s Relativity Suite. Paul Metzke joined up with Motian after stints with Gato Barbieri’s band and Tony Wiliams’s Lifetime. The team moves sensitively through Motian’s tunes, Haden’s “Song for Che”, and Ornette Coleman’s ”War Orphans”. Down Beat: “A landmark in the career of an outstanding percussionist… 5 Stars”. Recorded 1974. (ECM Records)
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 | Paul Motian: Bill Evans (CD: Winter & Winter)
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Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano: I Have The Room Above Her (CD: ECM)
One of the great groups of modern jazz, the Motian/Frisell/Lovano trio is back where it began and where it belongs – on ECM Records – with a beautiful album that asserts itself immediately as a contemporary jazz classic. Certain to be a major critical and popular success, I Have The Room Above Her takes its title from the Kern standard and it also includes Thelonious Monk’s “Dreamland”, much new material by Paul Motian and an inspired remake of his classic “Dance”. (New Note)
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 | Paul Motian Band: Garden Of Eden (CD: ECM)
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Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano: Time And Time Again (CD: ECM)
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 | Paul Motian: Lost In A Dream (CD: ECM)
Birth of a great new band, captured live at New York’s celebrated Village Vanguard, with repertoire emphasizing Paul Motian’s wonderful ballad writing. New Motian tunes are juxtaposed with “Bird Song” (from “Tati”) and “Drum Music” and “Abacus” (first heard on Paul’s now legendary album “Le Voyage”). A free exploration of Irving Berlin’s “Be Careful It’s My Heart” completes a programme distinguished by gloriously supple playing from all three participants who are in tune at a high level. Or, as the New York Times noted, reviewing the concerts from which this album was drawn: “The accumulated wisdom within the band was clear.” (ECM Records)
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