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I thought the Unity albums sounded pretty good, not the usual thing I would listen to, but the playing sounded top notch.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2020 at 4:12pm |
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Thanks. Chris Potter? His playing drives me crazy on the Pat Metheny Unity albums he plays on, but for some reason doesn't bother me as much on the Dave Holland albums he's on, so I'll still see what's up. I'll check out that SnakeOil album.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2020 at 8:05am |
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among new Millennium releases I would recommend to check "new New York avant-garde" muisic, released by ECM, starting from Tim Berne SnakeOil,etc. It's quite modern take on well-composed original music played by improvisation masters, complex and accessible at the same time. ECM released all series of really strong albums in this field.Chris Potter is another impressive name on this list
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Posted: 17 Aug 2020 at 3:40am |
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Bumping this thread. I didn't know a whole lot of ECM records
until last year, outside of Pat Metheny's work and a handful of albums
by Dave Holland, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, etc... At this point I've
checked out most of the albums released in the 70s and early 80s, most
of the JAPO releases as well. Definitely abstract and free in the first
few years, then they sort of had their 'jazz-rock/fusion' era (72-73,
lots of electric rhodes piano, funky grooves) and I more or less really
enjoy just about every album from the mid-late 70s.
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80s albums I've heard are pretty good overall, but there's some
out-there ones as well. I still need to start exploring the later
catalog, basically anything recorded after the 80s. I've only
heard roughly a dozen or so albums and most of them come from the last 5
years. I see a lot of albums in this thread I need to check out. My
favorite recent album has to be Anouar Brahem - "Blue Maqam", from 2017;
pretty fantastic music there. In a way, that album led me to explore
ECM because I wanted to check out more of Jack DeJohnette's work, who is
on Blue Maqam. I do find ECM's can
sometimes be a little sleepy, especially all those solo piano and duet albums, but I do enjoy the world-fusion based
releases a lot, and a big part of why I love to explore this label's
catalog. Albums by Steve Tibbetts, Collin Walcott (Oregon, Ralph Towner), Egberto Gismonti,
Stephan Micus, Codona, Bengt Berger, and Shankar, come to mind. Anything
else along those lines?
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Posted: 27 May 2017 at 12:42am |
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Roscoe Mitchell double live CD, recorded with his best collaborators from some last years (incl. Craig Taborn,Tyshawn Sorey,etc). Recorded at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Street sales from mid'June
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Posted: 13 May 2017 at 1:54am |
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Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snetberger new album contains warm dreamy chamber guitar jazz - great music for fans of Al DiMeola's World Sinfonia.
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Posted: 09 May 2017 at 5:25am |
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British folk-jazz trio Quercus studio debut (and first new album in four years)
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Pianist Aaron Parks trio releases a collection of subtle moody compositions. With veteran drummer Billy Hart and New Yorker bassist Ben Street
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Posted: 24 Apr 2017 at 2:02am |
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Israeli artist Avishai Cohen (trumpeter, not bassist) new album on ECM contains juts five pieces - two longer and two shorter. Beautiful contemporary jazz , ECM style, with quite warm sound, characteristic for ECM recordings, made in French Studios La Buissonne. Street sales - first week of May.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2017 at 1:54am |
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Guitarist Bill Frisell upcoming in May new album contains intimate collection of characteristic Americana-jazz recorded live by drumless duo with bassist Thomas Morgan. Frisell's softer side.
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Posted: 09 Apr 2017 at 2:28pm |
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Sting guitarist Dominic Miller quite surprisingly debuted on ECM as leader
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Posted: 06 Apr 2017 at 5:39am |
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American reeds player Chris Potter is one of ECM leaders by attention to modern jazz composition. On their upcoming album his new acoustic quartet presents six originals, all tight composed and executed
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Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko is one of the most popular European jazz musicians of today,and with no doubt ECM label biggest star. His new album, recorded with same New York Quartet as "Wislawa" (Cuban pianist David Virelles, drummer extraordinaire Gerald Cleaver and new double bassist Reuben Rogers from Virgin Islands instead of former Thomas Morgan), contains his trade mark slightly melancholic European chamber jazz recorded under ECM sound standard. More "Wislawa" than let say "Polin", this album will attract Stanko's regular fans for sure.
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Posted: 31 Mar 2017 at 1:19pm |
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French pianist Francois Couturier Tarkovsky Quartet music lays right in between of European chamber jazz and classic romanticism. Beautiful music, not really jazz though
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Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 2:19am |
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One of most popular modern French jazz clarinetist Louis Sclavis new album. All-star chamber jazz trio with violinist Dominique Pifarely and cellist Vincent Courtois
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Posted: 09 Mar 2017 at 2:42am |
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German pianist Julia Hulsmann fourth album on ECM is slightly more groovy and less polished than regular label's piano trios usually release.
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Posted: 18 Feb 2017 at 12:59pm |
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Real rarity for the label - vocalist album! German singer Theo Bleckmann's new album contains nice composed songs with jazzy arrangements with rock/ambient ( Mike Oldfield?) and chamber strong influences. Strong band includes star drummer John Hollenbeck, guitarist Ben Monder,keyboardist Shai Maestro and bassist Chris Tordini. Fits surprisingly well with ECM aesthetics
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For his new release on ECM, renown pianist Craig Taborn recorded a collection of well-composed songs leading a an acoustic quartet with reedist Chris Speed,bassist Chris Lightcap and Bad Plus-drummer Dave King. Well-cooked mix of post-bop, Latin,avant-garde jazz and modern composition played by skilled band - probably one of very first jazz albums, released this year with ambition to reach year's best list.
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Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 4:56am |
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Oregon leader guitarist Ralph Towner just released his first album solo album from 2014. An expectable collection of chamber acoustic guitars ballads. Oregon new album expected to be released soon as well.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2017 at 1:42pm |
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German classically trained pianist Benedikt Jahnel leads acoustic trio on chamber jazz containing new album. They sounds quite fresh and original on their best moments though.
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