Label: Ecm Records

Margaret Leng Tan, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - John Cage: The Seasons, etc (2000)

John Cage - The Seasons (2000)
Margaret Leng Tan, prepered piano, toy piano;
American Composers Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

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Classical, Avant-Garde | Label: ECM Records | # 465 140-2 | Time: 01:15:59

This is an enchanting CD, every item a sheer delight. Margaret Leng Tan worked with Cage in the last decade of his life and her earlier recordings (1/92; 7/95) show a special sympathy for the magical world of Cage's keyboard music. The second of her New Albion CDs included the piano solo version of The Seasons, and Cage was honest enough to admit to her that he had help from Virgil Thomson and Lou Harrison in making the orchestral version recorded here. The result is recognisably Cage at his most poetic, evoking each of the four seasons in lovely changing colours. There are two realisations of one of the last of what are called Cage's 'Number Pieces', Seventy-Four, written specially for the American Composers Orchestra a few months before his death in 1992. Several hearings have confirmed for me that this seamless garment of sustained sound in two overlapping parts is an immensely moving document from a unique human being at the very end of his life.
Pat Metheny - ECM Gold Collection (2003) [11CD Box Set] [Mini LP CDs]

Pat Metheny - ECM Gold Collection (2003) [11CD Box Set]
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Genre: Jazz, Fusion | Label: ECM / Universal Records | Catalog Number: UCCE-9027~39

Guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny is one of the most successful jazz musicians in the world. He is the only artist to win 20 Grammy Awards in 10 different categories. A consummate stylist and risk-taker, his musical signature melds a singular, euphoric sense of harmony with Afro-Latin and Brazilian sounds, rock, funk, global folk musics, and jazz. His 1976 debut, Bright Size Life, and the self-titled Pat Metheny Group two years later resonated with audiences and critics for its euphoric lyricism, dynamics, and rhythmic ideas.

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Life Goes On (2020)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Feb. 13, 2020
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Life Goes On (2020)

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Life Goes On (2020)
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Jazz | Label: ECM Records

A striking album of new music from pianist/composer Carla Bley, whose trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow is now in its 25th year. Individual associations among the players go back much further: bassist Swallow first recorded music by Carla in 1961. So when Bley says "Life Goes On", a lot of life is alluded to. Following two other trio albums for ECM, Trios (2013) and Andando el Tiempo (2016), this recording, realized in the Auditorio Stelio Molo Studio in Lugano in May 2019, with Manfred Eicher producing, takes the form of three suites.

Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons (2020)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Feb. 13, 2020
Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons (2020)

Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons (2020)
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Jazz | Label: ECM Records

Here Be Dragons is the ECM debut of New York based, Tel Aviv born saxophonist Oded Tzur, a strikingly original player and musical storyeller. Tzur's graceful and fluid tenor sax sound has been influenced by studies with bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia, and the concept of raga is subtly embedded in his elegant compositions, played with verve and imagination by his outstanding Israeli-Greek-American jazz group. As DownBeat has observed: "Tzur and his colleagues are definitely on to something." Recorded in June 2019 at Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher, the album is issued as Tzur embarks on an international tour.
Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill (1971) {2CD Set, JCOA Records--ECM Records 839 310-2 rel 1998}

Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill (1971) {2CD Set, JCOA Records–ECM Records 839 310-2 rel 1998}
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© 1971, 1998 JCOA Records / ECM Records | JCOA / EOTH 839 310-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Experimental Big Band / Avant-Garde Jazz

This two-hour-plus opus is billed as "a chronotransduction." With music by Carla Bley and lyrics/text are by Paul Haines, the project was recorded over nearly three years (1968-1971) in several locations and with nearly a hundred people involved in one way or another (musicians, singers, speakers). Those involved included a veritable who's who of the jazz world at that time (from Don Cherry to John McLaughlin) along with such unexpected combinations of singers as Linda Ronstadt and Jack Bruce.
Carla Bley & Michael Mantler - The Watt Works Family Album (1989) {ECM Records WATT/22 rec 1973-1989}

Carla Bley & Michael Mantler - The Watt Works Family Album (1989) {ECM Records WATT/22 rec 1973-1989}
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© 1989 ECM Records / Watt Works | WATT/22 / 841 478-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Experimental Jazz / Progressive Jazz

When Michael Mantle and Carla Bley started WATT in 1974 as an outle for their own music, they couldn't have imagined that this effort, which began as an impulsive, radical solution to the music industry's lack of interest in young composers, would not only remain necessary 15 years later, but that it would still work.
Keith Jarrett - J.S. Bach - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I + Buch II (1988, 1991) {4CD Set ECM Records}

Keith Jarrett - J.S. Bach - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I + Buch II (1988, 1991) {4CD Set ECM Records}
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© 1988, 1991 ECM Records | ECM New Series 1362~63 / 1433~34
Classical / Piano / Harpsichord

Book One of the Well-Tempered Clavier is performed on the piano while Book Two is performed on the harpsichord. His tempos are very fast, and he has a certain sense of humor that comes through in all his performances, making what might seem academic, warm and accessible. Highly recommended - and check out Jarrett's other classical recordings for other delights just as great.

Gary Burton - Works (1984) {ECM Records 823 267-2 rec 1973-1976}  Music

Posted by ruskaval at Oct. 29, 2020
Gary Burton - Works (1984) {ECM Records 823 267-2 rec 1973-1976}

Gary Burton - Works (1984) {ECM Records 823 267-2 rec 1973-1976}
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© 1973-76, 1984 ECM Records / PolyGram | 823 267-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Vibes

Vibraphonist Gary Burton, one of the defining voices of ECM’s formative years, is worthily honored in this second “Works” series installment. His contributions as virtuoso and interpreter of the instrument are unparalleled, and on ECM both aspects of his career found ample space in which to flourish. This particular era of the 1970s, which followed his RCA blitz, showed him also to be a musician of great patience, as on The New Quartet. The 1973 classic dropped him into a studio with guitarist Mick Goodrick, bassist Abraham Laboriel, and drummer Harry Blazer for a set as gorgeously played as it was conceived. From it we are treated to Keith Jarrett’s “Coral,” of which every spindly leaf is accounted for, and Carla Bley’s “Olhos De Gato,” which waters a groove that is laid back but never subdued. Those chamber sensibilities give way to more luscious details in “Vox Humana,” another Bley tune that references 1976’s quintet outing, Dreams So Real.

Carla Bley - Fleur Carnivore (1989) {ECM Records 839 662-2}  Music

Posted by ruskaval at July 26, 2020
Carla Bley - Fleur Carnivore (1989) {ECM Records 839 662-2}

Carla Bley - Fleur Carnivore (1989) {ECM Records 839 662-2}
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© 1989 WATT Works / ECM Records | WATT/21 / 839 662-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Experimental Big Band / Pian
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On Fleur Carnivore, pianist Carla Bley deftly integrates her beautiful melodies into five complex, yet effortless sounding pieces. Taken from 1988 live dates at Copenhagen's Montmartre club, Carnivore spotlights Bley's very accomplished big band, which includes, amongst several others, trumpeter Lew Soloff, alto saxophonist Wolfgang Pusching, trombonist Gary Valente, tenor saxophonist Andy Sheppard, and organist/harmonica player Karen Mantler (Bley's daughter).
Carla Bley - The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) {ECM Records 847 942-2}

Carla Bley - The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) {ECM Records 847 942-2}
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© 1991 WATT Works / ECM Records | WATT/23 / 847 942-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Piano

Five striking Bley compositions are featured here, including two extended works, 'United States' and 'All Fall Down'. The lasting impression is one of unusual voicings, adventurous soloists, unconventional arranging touches, and dissonant shadings. 'Delightfully quirky, chaotically dynamic, delicately impressionistic, buoyantly upbeat, and brashly bold.' - Downbeat