Andi Chorley<p>Ended the week and started the weekend with Promontoire by Benjamin Moussay, released on ECM in 2020.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"After multiple appearances as sideman for Louis Sclavis, the timely Characters on a Wall most recent among them, pianist Benjamin Moussay for quietly dominates the marquee of an ECM album cover. In this program of original solo material, he shows himself to be a genuinely focused player who values not only melodies but also the spaces in which they breathe. What began as more fully fledged compositions have grown more open-ended over time, whittled away to whispering motifs and suggestive chords.</p><p>Our introduction to Moussay’s sound percolates through the boulders of “127.” Inspired by 127 Hours, the 2010 biopic about Aron Ralston’s harrowing escape from Bluejohn Canyon, it comes to us fully formed.."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2020/06/01/benjamin-moussay-promontoire-ecm-2659/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2020/06/01/benj</span><span class="invisible">amin-moussay-promontoire-ecm-2659/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWypnbqBbu4&list=OLAK5uy_n7EtE-OuiV-8OCJAudquc4e9olHDH79_U" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=zWypnbqBbu</span><span class="invisible">4&list=OLAK5uy_n7EtE-OuiV-8OCJAudquc4e9olHDH79_U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BenjaminMoussay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BenjaminMoussay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/solopiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solopiano</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazzpiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazzpiano</span></a></p>
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Andi Chorley<p>Ended the weekend and welcomed the working week after a swim with Surrounded by Sea an album by British saxophonist and composer Andy Sheppard recorded in Switzerland in 2014 and released on the ECM label the following year.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM reviews:</p><p>"Surrounded by Sea marks the fifth ECM appearance by English saxophonist Andy Sheppard. To the configuration of bassist Michel Benita and drummer Sebastian Rochford (with whom he previously recorded as Trio Libero) he now welcomes the ambient touch of guitarist Eivind Aarset. The latter, perhaps more than any other, evokes the encompassing waters of the album’s title, and draws on the relationship formed on Sheppard’s ECM debut, Movements in Colour.</p><p>Emphasis sides with Sheppard’s compositions, which have the first and final word on Surrounded by Sea. “Tipping Point,” co-written with Benita, opens the set on a distant shore.."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2015/08/31/surrounded-by-sea/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2015/08/31/surr</span><span class="invisible">ounded-by-sea/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrn9zKMbpg&list=PLcKiWZa176FizPm4cVyM0rCRBe15vCxbP&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=jyrn9zKMbp</span><span class="invisible">g&list=PLcKiWZa176FizPm4cVyM0rCRBe15vCxbP&index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/andysheppard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>andysheppard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EivindAarset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EivindAarset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Trio Libero an album by British saxophonist and composer Andy Sheppard recorded in Switzerland in July 2011 and released on ECM in January the following year</p><p>The level of comfort shared by saxophonist Andy Sheppard, bassist Michel Benita, and drummer Sebastian Rochford bears out from the first moments of opener “Libertino” with a looseness that never loses sight or hold of things..Under guise of balladry, “When We Live On The Stars…” concludes with a promise that the people and pleasures we adore will still be waiting for us when we wake.</p><p>Nowhere within these relatively brief tunes will you find demonstrative solos or waving of virtuosic flags. That said, it requires a special kind of virtuosity to carry off such music so humbly, and with a spirit that is as naked as the day all of us were born. This is the art of the trio, liberated."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2014/10/02/trio-libero/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2014/10/02/trio</span><span class="invisible">-libero/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H53Vm2n0Pc&list=OLAK5uy_ls9jXmv46jrLbchAEsHfFjnL3lCYCvKYU&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=5H53Vm2n0P</span><span class="invisible">c&list=OLAK5uy_ls9jXmv46jrLbchAEsHfFjnL3lCYCvKYU&index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/andysheppard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>andysheppard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SebastianRochford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SebastianRochford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Welcomed sleep and greeted the new day after my swim with Romaria an album by the Andy Sheppard Quartet recorded in Switzerland in April 2017 and released on ECM February the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Eivind Aarset, Michel Benita and Sebastian Rochford.</p><p>Saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s quartet with guitarist Eivind Aarset, bassist Michel Benita and drummer Sebastian Rochford pulls out threads from this album’s predecessor and from them weaves an even more seamless tapestry.</p><p>Once again, Aarset proves an integral presence, adding (in Sheppard’s words) an “orchestral voice,” which percolates as life-giving water through soil..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2019/03/08/andy-sheppard-quartet-romaria-ecm-2577/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2019/03/08/andy</span><span class="invisible">-sheppard-quartet-romaria-ecm-2577/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82CE9x6-9g&list=OLAK5uy_lIEsSHh5Z3XMhbQOJsRNuaXjtbv-5uf_Q" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=h82CE9x6-9</span><span class="invisible">g&list=OLAK5uy_lIEsSHh5Z3XMhbQOJsRNuaXjtbv-5uf_Q</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/andysheppard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>andysheppard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EivindAarset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EivindAarset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SebastianRochford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SebastianRochford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Slipped into sleep and then welcomed Friday with Cycles the second album by cellist David Darling, recorded in 1981 and released on ECM the following year.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"Cellist David Darling has had a long, if sporadic, association with ECM, quietly forging—either under the guise of solo artist or buried in an album’s roster—some of the label’s most lyrical atmospheres. With Cycles, however, Darling magnified his sound-world through the inimitable talents of Jan Garbarek and Collin Walcott in a space both selfless and uniquely his own. Add to that the astonishing pianism of Steve Kuhn and the depth of Arild Andersen on bass, and you get what is, to this listener at least, one of ECM’s finest celestial alignments..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2011/11/08/cycles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2011/11/08/cycl</span><span class="invisible">es/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zxDklTW7w&list=OLAK5uy_mjRP-ePBAhwulXvQb-aV4_Ul88VYDkQqM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=S0zxDklTW7</span><span class="invisible">w&list=OLAK5uy_mjRP-ePBAhwulXvQb-aV4_Ul88VYDkQqM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/daviddarling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>daviddarling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cello</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jangarbarek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jangarbarek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/colinwalcott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colinwalcott</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/stevekuhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevekuhn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/arildanderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arildanderson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/1982inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1982inmusic</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the weekend and greeted the week after a swim with Life Goes On by Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow, released on ECM in 2020</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"For its third ECM outing, pianist Carla Bley’s trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow mixes up an antidote for these times of uncertainty and quarantine. The title suite is the first of three comprising the program. Given that “Life Goes On” came out of a recent brush with illness, it’s fitting that Bley should begin in the dark whimsy of the blues. Her left hand plows fertile soil before leaving Sheppard and Swallow to sow their thematic crop. Years of experience and collaboration funnel into Swallow’s intimate rapport with Bley and into Sheppard’s unforced, spiritual playing. The latter, whether breathing through tenor or soprano, takes two steps forward for every retreat.."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2020/05/02/bley-sheppard-swallow-life-goes-on-ecm-2669/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2020/05/02/bley</span><span class="invisible">-sheppard-swallow-life-goes-on-ecm-2669/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz0_l3maHG8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=tz0_l3maHG</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/carlabley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carlabley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/andysheppard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>andysheppard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/steveswallow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steveswallow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended Thursday and started Friday with Here Be Dragons by Oded Tzur, released on ECM in 2020.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote on ECM Reviews:</p><p>"Born in Tel Aviv and based in New York, tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur could not have found a more suitable home than ECM for his gentle brand of jazz. His uniquely tonal approach to the instrument, channeled through a rare melodic purity, make for a powerful combination. Heavily schooled in Indian classical music, he treats each tune as a raga in and of itself, and uses likeminded structures in distinctly jazz-oriented parallels to unleash the inner life of every motif. Ensuring that nothing goes to waste are his trusted crew of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis, and drummer Johnathan Blake.</p><p>After a tender yet angular introduction, “To Hold Your Hand” ushers in a dimly lit performance that relies more on the contour of sound than on the sound of contour.."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2020/06/02/oded-tzur-here-be-dragons-ecm-2676/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2020/06/02/oded</span><span class="invisible">-tzur-here-be-dragons-ecm-2676/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYqF0hBrOE&list=OLAK5uy_lMM2PKNaDr87oznxlOmdQOCi7KMgc44I4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=sAYqF0hBrO</span><span class="invisible">E&list=OLAK5uy_lMM2PKNaDr87oznxlOmdQOCi7KMgc44I4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/odedtzur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odedtzur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>13 3/4 by Micheal Mantler / Carla Bley released on Watt in 1975. </p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"After sleeping in separate beds, so to speak, in the first two WATT releases, Carla Bley and Michael Mantler share a marquee for the label’s third. The program here is bipartite, sporting one composition by each in a resolutely multi-dimensional form of jazz that pairs Bley’s piano with orchestral forces.</p><p>Mantler’s 13 is a morose dive into some light-starved chambers of nature. Sounding like a storm turned into a symphony, it has the climatic features of rain and hail...</p><p>Bley’s 3/4 is just as distinctly her own, though its breadth of vision may be compared to the classical hybrids of Keith Jarrett (who, incidentally, gave this piece’s premiere)..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2020/04/19/michael-mantler-carla-bley-13-3-4-watt-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2020/04/19/mich</span><span class="invisible">ael-mantler-carla-bley-13-3-4-watt-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcouHjCuLmc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=AcouHjCuLm</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/carlabley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carlabley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/michaelmantler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>michaelmantler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/wattrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wattrecords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/1975inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1975inmusic</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the long weekend and started Tuesday after my swim with A Short Diary by Sebastian Rochford and Kit Downes released on ECM in 2023.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote on ECM Reviews:</p><p>"In 2019, Sebastian Rochford .. lost his father, Aberdeen poet Gerard Rochford. While mourning, the drummer found himself unable to staunch the melodies welling up from within. Recorded in collaboration with pianist Kit Downes at his childhood home in Scotland, A Short Diary reapproaches that music in dedication to his family and the man whose absence left an unfillable chasm...</p><p>Despite the heartache that permeates “This Tune Your Ears Will Never Hear,” it opens with bursts of light as if to fight off the darkness of death. This feeling continues throughout, even in titles one might not expect, such as “Night Of Quiet...”</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2025/01/14/sebastian-rochford-kit-downes-a-short-diary-ecm-2749/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2025/01/14/seba</span><span class="invisible">stian-rochford-kit-downes-a-short-diary-ecm-2749/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udm69jYBStA&list=PLWwRgYynvV-bVb-SO9dWupEToztvlGReA&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=udm69jYBSt</span><span class="invisible">A&list=PLWwRgYynvV-bVb-SO9dWupEToztvlGReA&index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sebastianrochford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sebastianrochford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/kitdownes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kitdownes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/2023inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2023inmusic</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the week and started the weekend with Isabela by Oded Tzur released in 2022 on ECM Records.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"...From the threads of “Invocation,” the quartet sews the binding of its thematic pages in “Noam,” which speaks through melodies that roll off the soul’s tongue. In “The Lion Turtle,” Blake taps the edges of his kit like someone testing the shell of an egg for vulnerabilities (and finding none). Klampanis’s solo feels like an extension of Hershkovits’s (and vice versa). Suggestions of alternate realities fade as quickly as they appear. Tzur’s unraveling is profundity incarnate, gracing the inner circle of every chord change as the tongue might move a morsel around the mouth for proper chewing. The result is more than a conversation; it’s an interactive prayer..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2022/06/30/oded-tzur-isabela-ecm-2739/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2022/06/30/oded</span><span class="invisible">-tzur-isabela-ecm-2739/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-8tcyMnGk&list=PLZ-z7_gxM585BI5SH1uDOhsRjTIK3VZbh&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=uI-8tcyMnG</span><span class="invisible">k&list=PLZ-z7_gxM585BI5SH1uDOhsRjTIK3VZbh&index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/odedtzur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odedtzur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmrecords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ManfredEicher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManfredEicher</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after my swim with The Promise a solo album by Greek composer and pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos recorded in January 2008 and released on ECM the following year.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"Vassilis Tsabropoulos’s sixth ECM disc proves that less is indeed more. The Greek pianist-composer offers 11 pieces of original and improvised material, most of it sketched just weeks before the recording session. As solo piano records go, this has none of the fire of a Keith Jarrett or the richness of a Richie Beirach, but what it foregoes in flourish it supplements with emotional fluency.</p><p>The album is tented by the first iteration and two equidistant variations of a song called “The Other,” the repetition of which links bed sheets like a child scaling from an orphanage’s high window..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2014/06/26/the-promise/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2014/06/26/the-</span><span class="invisible">promise/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9v-z86XwxM&list=OLAK5uy_lnG7Ob4-Y1rVybAq7FHVgQnCAvTY46HqQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=O9v-z86Xwx</span><span class="invisible">M&list=OLAK5uy_lnG7Ob4-Y1rVybAq7FHVgQnCAvTY46HqQ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VassilisTsabropoulos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VassilisTsabropoulos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/solopiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solopiano</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the week and started the weekend with Cantilena the second album recorded by the British jazz quartet, First House. It was released by ECM. The album presents a studio performance of leader and saxophonist Ken Stubbs with Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on bass and Martin France on drums, recorded in 1989 in Norway. </p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"After a memorable ECM debut with Eréndira, the talented quartet of saxophonist Ken Stubbs, pianist Django Bates, bassist Mike Hutton, and drummer Martin France—a.k.a. First House—followed up with an even more effective chunk of progressive jazz in Cantilena. From the first soulful licks of the title opener, we know we are in for something special and from the heart. The composer’s alto draws us into the night with recumbent charm, thereby opening an ambitious set that delivers everything it promises and more.."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2012/03/01/cantilena/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2012/03/01/cant</span><span class="invisible">ilena/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9zcpruElE&list=OLAK5uy_nfUh8Ae1ALAQwx7A2bwrhqIkL5VN1TIko" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=St9zcpruEl</span><span class="invisible">E&list=OLAK5uy_nfUh8Ae1ALAQwx7A2bwrhqIkL5VN1TIko</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/firsthouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firsthouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/britjazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britjazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/djangobates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>djangobates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/kenstubbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kenstubbs</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Free at Last is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1969 and released on the ECM label. The album was the first release on the influential European jazz label. </p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote, reviewing the LP for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"A cymbal riff from Clarence Becton introduces this respectable outing from Mal Waldron and company as bassist Isla Eckinger and the bandleader jump in for some enjoyable interplay. Yet what begins as an energetic ride turns somber through Eckinger’s rumination. Such solos lend deeper insight into the goings on, underscored by Waldron’s staccato mastication. Ballads are the album’s ventricles. A sweltering slog through love and darkened streets,.."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1W11fCCpM&list=OLAK5uy_mV3HNGKadzTa-p24BlgFT49j50Kj--qdY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1W11fCCp</span><span class="invisible">M&list=OLAK5uy_mV3HNGKadzTa-p24BlgFT49j50Kj--qdY</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/malwaldron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malwaldron</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazzpiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazzpiano</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/1970inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1970inmusic</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended yesterday and started Friday with Llyrìa an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in France in 2010 and released on the ECM label.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"... A remainder of balladic energy seeps into “Modul 51” with darkened edges. Things take a more propulsive turn a third of the way through and betray new percussive synapses at every turn..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2013/02/13/llyria/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2013/02/13/llyr</span><span class="invisible">ia/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWaI-jlvQA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=aOWaI-jlvQ</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/nikbartsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nikbartsch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ronin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ronin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/minimalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minimalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/2010inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2010inmusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/modul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modul</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Slipped into sleep last night and welcomed Friday with Dawn Dance an album by South African guitarist Steve Eliovson and American percussionist Collin Walcott, recorded in January 1981 and released on ECM later that year.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"This album is something of a legend in the annals of ECM lore, as it was the only ever recorded by the fantastically talented Steve Eliovson. With Collin Walcott on percussion for support, the since unheard-from guitarist carves lasting impressions ...The experience begins in “Venice” (as in California), where the guitar speaks with tabla like two continents connected by tectonic plates beneath an ocean. Eliovson’s sonorities are pristine, especially in “Earth End” and in “Slow Jazz,” where the precision of finger placement and the occasional bent note add a soulful turn of phrase...."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2011/10/16/dawn-dance/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2011/10/16/dawn</span><span class="invisible">-dance/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2NT3003Ow&list=OLAK5uy_k_ltMu6RGWPuIuAnYjnr9zggpU3SHm4c4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ns2NT3003O</span><span class="invisible">w&list=OLAK5uy_k_ltMu6RGWPuIuAnYjnr9zggpU3SHm4c4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/steveEliovson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steveEliovson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/colinwalcott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colinwalcott</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/acousticguitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acousticguitar</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>A Molde Concert by Arild Anderson released on ECM in 1982. </p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"...Here, the bassist is joined by names which, though now celebrated, were still fledgling at the time: guitarist Bill Frisell (still seeking out his characteristic warble among the increasingly populated trees of the 1980s), pianist John Taylor, and ex-Weather Reporter Alphonse Mouzon on drums...</p><p>...After an elastic opening, “Cherry Tree” slingshots into a set consisting entirely of Andersen originals, save for the romping “Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony” (Miles Davis) that concludes the show. From the beginning, the breadth of arrangement is apparent, Frisell laying out embracing themes as Andersen and Mouzon work double time..."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2011/11/20/molde-concert/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2011/11/20/mold</span><span class="invisible">e-concert/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PfT52R6O0E&list=OLAK5uy_nW3e87dIgdopfFPflmvKGwyl3GJpmL_5Y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=-PfT52R6O0</span><span class="invisible">E&list=OLAK5uy_nW3e87dIgdopfFPflmvKGwyl3GJpmL_5Y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/arildanderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arildanderson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/billfrissel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billfrissel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AlphonseMouzon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlphonseMouzon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/johntaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johntaylor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/moldejazzfestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moldejazzfestival</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Ended the week and started the weekend with Melos by Tsabropoulos/Lechner/Gandhi released on ECM in 2008</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote on ECM Reviews:</p><p>"The second album from Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos and German cellist Anja Lechner, would seem to be a sequel to Chants, Hymns and Dances, but is in many ways a restructuring of that same cosmos rather than a parallel universe to it...</p><p>The title of Melos refers to the arrangement of notes into a discernible tune (hence: melody), and in this respect its contents succeed beautifully. The title track starts the album with an all-encompassing embrace. Lechner navigates Tsabropoulos’s delicate ostinato in such a way that, even as the pianist continues exploring the ripple effect of her measured silence, when the cello reprises the theme, it does so newly fortified with sacred energy..."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VassilisTsabropoulos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VassilisTsabropoulos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AnjaLechner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnjaLechner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Gurdjieff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gurdjieff</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2014/09/09/melos/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2014/09/09/melo</span><span class="invisible">s/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J47H0tX1iGQ&list=OLAK5uy_mhQUayEL3tf4ztgBoUlF6HIJiRrtPKB3A" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=J47H0tX1iG</span><span class="invisible">Q&list=OLAK5uy_mhQUayEL3tf4ztgBoUlF6HIJiRrtPKB3A</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Welcomed sleep yesterday then greeted Friday with an LP I first heard, having borrowed it from Cambridge Library during a brief sojourn there in my youth: Eréndira is the first album recorded by the British jazz quartet, First House. It was released by ECM. The album presents a studio performance of leader and saxophonist Ken Stubbs with Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on bass and Martin France on drums, recorded in July, 1985 in Norway. </p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>“A Day Away” starts as if awakening, those first rustlings of the morning flittering across France’s kit, Bates opening his eyes as butterfly’s wings to sunlight, while Hutton takes our first steps, breathing in the saxophone’s crisp air...a beautiful, seemingly forgotten album from a quartet of musicians who tended to involve themselves in more progressive acts. Here, they take it back home. Don’t pass this one by."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/djangobates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>djangobates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/kenstubbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kenstubbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/martinfrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>martinfrance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/britjazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britjazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ffKlpKcVY&list=OLAK5uy_nhLOzgP4zFQlqNCiRfDWWJ1vPmqslyilQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=D6ffKlpKcV</span><span class="invisible">Y&list=OLAK5uy_nhLOzgP4zFQlqNCiRfDWWJ1vPmqslyilQ</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Grazing Dreams is the second album by American sitarist and composer Collin Walcott, recorded in February 1977 and released on ECM later that year. Walcott's quintet features trumpeter Don Cherry and rhythm section John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson, and Dom Um Romão.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews: </p><p>"A plaintive, leisurely journey from Collin Walcott, North American pioneer in the art of the jazz sitar and ECM visionary whose life ended all too soon at the age 39... </p><p>...Grazing Dreams is structured as long-form whole in which individual tracks blend into the overarching power that binds them. “Song Of The Morrow” starts things off right with flirtatious sitar riffs appearing and disappearing against a reverberant wash of guitar and trumpet while subtle and varied percussion sections sneak past in the background."</p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2010/02/14/grazing-dreams/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2010/02/14/graz</span><span class="invisible">ing-dreams/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aZEf6JXxjk&list=OLAK5uy_lGhOnBkbO6VzW8cC_UAnDxFmox_5YK9x0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=0aZEf6JXxj</span><span class="invisible">k&list=OLAK5uy_lGhOnBkbO6VzW8cC_UAnDxFmox_5YK9x0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/colinwalcott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colinwalcott</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/doncherry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doncherry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/johnabercrombie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnabercrombie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PalleDanielsson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalleDanielsson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/domumromao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>domumromao</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Witchi-Tai-To is an album by the Jan Garbarek–Bobo Stenson Quartet recorded over two days in November 1973 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen.</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"...Last but not least is “Desireless.” This Don Cherry tune is given a 20-minute treatment that surpasses all expectations. It’s a mournful closer, a song of parting, an unrequited wish. It tries to hold on to a rope that is slipping through its fingers, even as it struggles with all the strength at its disposal to keep the music alive. Garbarek refuses to go down without an incendiary swan song, however, and by the end it is all we have left..."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jangarbarek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jangarbarek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bobostenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bobostenson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/palledanielsson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palledanielsson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/JonChristensen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonChristensen</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ecmreviews.com/2014/12/27/dansere-old-and-new-masters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecmreviews.com/2014/12/27/dans</span><span class="invisible">ere-old-and-new-masters/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fMDQv_mhc&list=OLAK5uy_nII9roVrpeasXwoefCjoPEppEECDXnC-Y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=M_fMDQv_mh</span><span class="invisible">c&list=OLAK5uy_nII9roVrpeasXwoefCjoPEppEECDXnC-Y</span></a></p>
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