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In great contrast to Arve Henriksen’s last ECM album as a leader, the very maximalist (for him) “Cartography” from 2010, “Touch of Time”, a co-led duo with Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje, is a series of beautiful miniatures. Over ten delicate [...]
Why Brazilian master musician Vinicius Cantuaria (b.1951) isn’t more celebrated is another of life’s unfairnesses. He’s a very accomplished composer, singer and guitarist, and his songs are seductively listenable, not a common combination in jazz or anything else. The back [...]
ECM’s landmark series of audiophile vinyl releases from their huge back catalogue continues with three new discs, each of which combines historical importance with superb music. They are all, in their different ways, under appreciated or underexposed recordings deserving of [...]
Unless you’re a double bass player yourself, the idea of an hour-long duet for two big fiddles might seem less of a treat than a threat of random low-end grumbling. But that’s before you know about Christian McBride and Edgar [...]
Recorded in 1971 at a benefit for the Integral Yoga Institute and now released in full for the first time, The Carnegie Hall Concert is both an historically important document and an eminently listenable recording full of insistent grooves, remarkably [...]
There are second – and third – acts in American lives and Charles Lloyd is the living proof. His latest album, released on what will be his 86th birthday on Friday 15 March, is a triumphant two CD or LP [...]
Percussionist and composer Kahil El’ Zabar – an ex-chair of Chicago’s legendary AACM organisation who wrote the Art Ensemble’s iconic tune and slogan ‘Great Black Music’ – celebrates leading his band for a continuous 50 years with a new recording [...]
