ECM Jazz

Listening to ECM catalog in order; all "reviews" are subjective; unofficial: not affiliated with ECM Records 🇩🇪 Dan Hewins @hewins 🇺🇸 based in Tokyo 🇯🇵

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I’ve created a playlist of my top selections form the ECM catalog. I’ll continue to update it as I listen. (Yes, there is a disproportionate amount of Paul Motian on here.) Have a listen.

Are there any songs you would add? Remove?

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2788 The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian "Zartir" = Զարթիր
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Back two years ago, the previous Bordenave album came across my stereo system, which was a trio of Bordenave on tenor and soprano sax, Patrice Moret on bass, and Florian Weber on piano. Back then, the trio didn't awaken my interest in a strong way, but I still have open ears...

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2783 Matthieu Bordenave "The Blue Land"
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2782 Florian Weber "Imaginary Cycle"
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"A Time To Remember" is the second album by Elina and this group of musicians. We have Rob Luft on guitar, Matthieu Michel on flugelhorn, and Fred Thomas on piano and drums. The first, "Lost Ships," was a revelation for me where I thought that Luft's playing on that record...

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2781 Elina Duni "A Time To Remember"
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2779 Nitai Hershkovits "Call On The Old Wise"
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...piano record.

If this band were to come to Tokyo, I would clear my calendar to see the show!

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2778 Maciej Obara Quartet "Frozen Silence"

Recorded June 2022, Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Here is the third album by Obara and his Polish/Norwegian quartet. This time I come to the album knowing one more of the musicians from having seen them play live. In the previous two...

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...together the sax and piano.

All players contribute meaningfully to the music, not through composition, but through their interpretation of the music and interaction with each other. I am again impressed by Wania, whose “Lonely Shadows” was a notably great improvised solo...

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...This album is best listened to all the way through, rather than as individual songs. Do that and tell me what you think.

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2777 Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi - Trio Tapestry "Our Daily Bread"
Recorded May 2022, Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

This is the third album by Trio Tapestry, a band that takes its name from the first album title made by the group, before the group had...

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...that "One For Charlie," a solo sax piece by Lovano, is dedicated to Charlie Haden. The title piece is the most "composed" of them all, and a great lynchpin to have halfway through...

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I am here to say that this is a really good album and I like it.
This is very out of character for me. For most of the Nordic-folk-flavored and, for that matter, any vocal music on ECM, I have historically not been a fan. I have minimally enjoyed some of it, found ways to...

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2776 Sinikka Langeland "Wind And Sun"
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