Yelena Eckemoff

Yelena Eckemoff, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen & Thomas Strønen - Nocturnal Animals (2020)

Yelena Eckemoff, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen & Thomas Strønen - Nocturnal Animals (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 460 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | 01:27:25
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: L & H Production

Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff adds another link to her chain of thoughtful concept albums with Nocturnal Animals, which her own L&H Production imprint will release on January 24. True to its title, the double album features 14 musical impressions of the creatures that rule the night. The pieces are brought to life by a quartet that places Eckemoff alongside bassist Arild Andersen and drummers Jon Christensen and Thomas Strønen.

Yelena Eckemoff - Adventures of the Wildflower (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 19, 2021
Yelena Eckemoff - Adventures of the Wildflower (2021)

Yelena Eckemoff - Adventures of the Wildflower (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 635 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 280 Mb | 02:02:00
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Creative | Label: L & H Production

"Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff unfurls her most elaborate and ambitious musical work yet with Adventures of the Wildflower. As its title suggests, the album is the story of a life, from birth to death (and rebirth), of an anthropomorphic columbine flower. Long a conceptualist, Yelena Eckemoff has previously tended to craft albums of thematically linked but discrete pieces. Adventures of the Wildflower, however, functions as a single narrative. The floweraptly named Columbineundertakes a vivid journey, growing from baby to mature plant as she observes from her garden spot the whirl of nature and of life, plant and animal, around her.
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet - A Touch Of Radiance (2014) [Official Digital Download]

Yelena Eckemoff Quintet - A Touch Of Radiance (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 69:31 minutes | 775 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff defines radiance as "a state of happiness or confidence when everything around you is shining". On her 2014's album, "A Touch of Radiance", she explores that idea from 10 different perspectives, drawing rich inspiration from memories, emotions, and dreams, and the inner world where all three intersect. Her quintet here's Mark Turner, Joe Locke, George Mraz & Billy Hart. These four gifted artists respond gorgeously to Eckemoff's music, wringing bold colors and deep feeling from pieces that are both airy and intricate.
Yelena Eckemoff - Adventures of the Wildflower (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Yelena Eckemoff - Adventures of the Wildflower (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 122:00 minutes | 2,45 GB
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Creative | Label: L & H Production, Official Digital Download

"Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff unfurls her most elaborate and ambitious musical work yet with Adventures of the Wildflower. As its title suggests, the album is the story of a life, from birth to death (and rebirth), of an anthropomorphic columbine flower."
Yelena Eckemoff - Everblue (2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Yelena Eckemoff Quartet - Everblue (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:15 minutes | 657 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

In a quick follow-up to her masterful album "Lions", Russian-born and now North Carolina-based pianist Yelena Eckemoff offers up Everblue, the most "ECM Records-sounding" set not on that deservedly esteemed label. It is, rather, released on her own L&H Productions. The names of the sidemen on the date explain in part the ECM-like sound: saxophonist Tore Brunborg, bassist Arild Andersen, and drummer Jon Christensen, the Norwegian contingent, are all long time ECM Records artists, as leaders and hired guns for other players, and their long term contributions have been instrumental in shaping the ECM aesthetic of subtlety, intricacy, and fluid motion.

Yelena Eckemoff - Lions (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at March 8, 2024
Yelena Eckemoff - Lions (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Yelena Eckemoff Trio - Lions (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 93:57 minutes | 1,84 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

For Yelena Eckemoff, finding the nexus where training and an early successful career in the classical sphere meet with the Moscow-born, North Carolina-resident pianist/composer's more recent predilection for jazz and improvised music has been a wholly natural pursuit. A meeting place where the whole is invariably greater than the sum of its parts, with "Lions" - her eighth jazz album in nine years - Eckemoff once again raises the bar on a very personal approach to bringing detailed composition and freewheeling extemporization together with the idea of music as real narrative.
Yelena Eckemoff - In The Shadow Of A Cloud (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Yelena Eckemoff - In The Shadow Of A Cloud (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 95:44 minutes | 2,16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

She may rarely perform live in this context, but Yelena Eckemoff has managed to build, over just seven years and a mammoth eleven releases—including her second release of 2017, In the Shadow of a Cloud—a loyal and growing following in the jazz world. It's all the more remarkable for a multi-talented expat Russian pianist who began life in the classical world, and only entered the jazz world in 2010 with Cold Sun. But there's even more to marvel at when it comes to Eckemoff, who relocated to the USA a little over a quarter century ago. Consider her accomplishments over the past seven years: she has released the entire body of jazz work on her own L&H Productions imprint, with only the help of publicists to help get the word out; has produced all of her recordings; and, since 2014's A Touch of Radiance, also contributed original paintings, as well as corresponding poetry to each composition.
Yelena Eckemoff - I Am a Stranger in This World (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Yelena Eckemoff - I Am a Stranger in This World (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 2:01:01 | 2.47 Gb
Genre: Jazz / Label: L&H Productions

I am a melodist, but the melodies that come from the words I hear in the Psalms, I think they are the best melodies I create. And I think it's because there's a power in those words. . . . You can feel the power that God channels through that music. - Yelena EckemoffPianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff adds to her already impressive corpus of settings for the Psalms. The album is a new installment in a long-term musical project that began with 2018s Better Than Gold and Silver, and once again teams Eckemoff with that albums trumpeter Ralph Alessi and bassist Drew Gress, along with guitarist Adam Rogers and drummer Nasheet Waits.
Yelena Eckemoff - Leaving Everything Behind (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Yelena Eckemoff Quartet - Leaving Everything Behind (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 79:57 minutes | 1,6 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Russian-born, North Carolina-based composer Yelena Eckemoff consistently releases material that is deeply thought provoking and reflective. This time out, she leads a team with all stars Billy Hart, Ben Street and for added exoticism, violinist Mark Feldman through a collection of originals. Delicately delivered strong material. The songs are impressionistic and filled with water colors of sound.
Yelena Eckemoff - Blooming Tall Phlox (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Yelena Eckemoff - Blooming Tall Phlox (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 98:11 minutes | 1,06 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff's musical impressions here, along with a range of other smells recalled from her Russian childhood. When Eckemoff visited Finland and saw how much it reminded her of Russia she decided it was the best place to record an album about her Russian aroma memories, and recruited a Finnish band to realize her vision.