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Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (ECM/digital outlets)

...This will not be the last album we have from Keith Jarrett, but we might guess that from now on they will... ...reviewed a considerable number of albums by Keith Jarrett over the years. See...

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KEITH JARRETT: THE MELODY AT NIGHT, WITH YOU (1999). Distilling genius

...days, Keith Jarrett gets as much space, sometimes more, in jazz...

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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Ode)

...of coincidences, this duet album with pianist Keith Jarrett was released internationally two days after...

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Keith Jarrett Trio: Setting Standards (ECM/Ode)

...Keith Jarrett's career and recent work has been well covered...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Keith Jarrett: Rio (ECM)

...comes this equally vibrant solo piano set by Keith Jarrett, recorded live in Rio in April 2011. This...

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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM/Ode)

...is a rare one: this is Elsewhere regular, Keith Jarrett's first recording outside of his trio in . . ....

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Elsewhere Art . . . Keith Jarrett

...probably be no more new music from pianist Keith Jarrett. In 2018 he suffered two separate strokes...

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Keith Jarrett Trio, My Foolish Heart (2007)

...come to albums by jazz and Elsewhere pianist Keith Jarrett expecting to snap their fingers, smile at the... ...At the time, who would have thought it from Keith Jarrett? These Essential Elsewhere pages deliberately...

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Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM/Ode)

Arguably the greatest working jazz trio in the world today, pianist Jarrett, bassist Peacock and drummer DeJohnette once more look back for source material while remaining utterly contemporary in thei

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Jarrett, Haden, Motian: Hamburg '72 (ECM/Ode)

...apotheosis in this trio with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Paul Motian (which became...

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Jarrett, Garbarek, Danielsson, Christensen: Sleeper (ECM/Ode)

...my exceptionally crude count, pianist Keith Jarrett's name (as leader of a group or solo) is on at...

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Shai Maestro: Human (ECM/digital outlets)

...real discovery and one which those who enjoyed Keith Jarrett's more measured trio albums would warm to. ....

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Murray McNabb; Songs for the Dream Weaver (Sarang Bang)

...Way and in Charles Lloyd's band alongside Keith Jarrett; Nussbaum having worked with John Scofield --...

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GUEST WRITER RICHARD FOSTER unravels the bewildering debut album The New Sound by Geordie Greep

...Greep; “My plan is to ‘do a Keith Jarrett thing’, have a different group of...

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Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice (2002)

...of the music by 1970 for a decade. Alongside Keith Jarrett, his career in the Nineties has been one of...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Van Ross

...from Belonging Album with Keith Jarrett……made me cry. Emotional playing....

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JOHN SURMAN: The casually-dressed career

...For Hope (is free jazz-country a genre?), Keith Jarrett with DeJohnette and Gary Peacock on Standards...

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Mike Nock/Frank Gibson: Open Door (1986)

...at the time -- comparisons between Nock and Keith Jarrett at his most considered would have been...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Kelly Joe Phelps

...are . . .The hymn, “Just As I Am,” Keith Jarrett’s “My Song,” and Beethoven's...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Kristin Berardi and Rafael Karlen of Berardi/Foran/Karlen

...play?) RK: I think that being on stage with Keith Jarrett would be very special. He can make anything...

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IT'S ALL IN THE GAME, CONSIDERED (2021): The singers and the song

...simple. . . And here it is by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett In 1951 -- four decades later -- the...

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Tord Gustavsen Trio; Being There (ECM) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

...muscularity that one normally associates with Keith Jarrett, and Karmosin is a fragmented piece which...

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CHARLES LLOYD; ARROWS INTO INFINITY, a doco by DOROTHY BARR and JEFFREY MORSE

...and yet Lloyd and his band (the young Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette) did not...

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THE ACT LABEL, SIGNATURE EDITION (2010): Getting their ACT acts together

...his '05 album Ulf Wakenius Plays the Music of Keith Jarrett; Notes from the Heart, and the Voyage album of...

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MORE PROVOCATIONS OF RATTLES (2018): Elsewhere, classical, jazz and further elsewhere

...Bach and Debussy to Morton Feldman, echoes of Keith Jarrett and those who have encouraged him (Mike Nock...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE BLUES QUESTIONNAIRE . . . Tom Rodwell

...gradually drip-feeding their old Keith Jarrett collection to Groovy, so I’m picking up...

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JOSHUA REDMAN INTERVIEWED (2014): Beatles, Bach and beyond

...such as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Keith Jarrett. But Redman – raised by his mother,...

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Unwind: Embers (Rattle/digital outlets)

...by listening to Bill Evans or late-period Keith Jarrett. The Unwind group of pianist/composer Norman...

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JAN GARBAREK, ECM SAXOPHONIST (2009): The times they have a-changed

...been on albums by people as diverse as pianist Keith Jarrett, folkloric guitarist Egberto Gismonti and...

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MIKE NOCK, INTERVIEWED (2024): The art of having serious fun

...room at Berklee, not playing jazz, was Keith Jarrett who I got to be friendly with and we started...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Dyne

...it would be . . . (And you would play?)  Keith Jarrett (and I would play)  The three films you'd...

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Paul Motian: Conception Vessel (ECM)

...track which is a Motian duet with pianist Keith Jarrett) and ending with Inspiration From a Vietnamese...

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JACK DeJOHNETTE INTERVIEWED (2011): Two Jacks and a Miles

...in Lloyd's quartet was a hot young pianist, Keith Jarrett, with whom DeJohnette still plays today. With...

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes; Expansions (Ace/Border)

...(sharing the piano stool with Nike Nock and Keith Jarrett), Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis and others...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Tania Giannouli

...be . . ? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Roland Dyens, Charles Mingus, Paul Motian....

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Tania Giannouli: Solo (Rattle/digital outlets)

...to melodies in the way Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett were (all very differently, of course) but on...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Benny Lackner

...I TOOK ALL THE MILES, COLTRANE, PARKER AND KEITH JARRETT I COULD FIT INTO THESE CRATES. The best book...

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ATLANTIC JAZZ LEGENDS IN A BOX (2014): Cheap steps into giant jazz

...Yusef Lateef, Mose Allison, Herbie Mann, Keith Jarrett . . . and more. Okay, let's drop the dollars...

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Bing and Ruth: No Home of the Mind (4AD)

...an influence. At the time some likened it to Keith Jarrett without the grunts, groans and wrestling with...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Carolina Moon

...– Savinna Yannatou; My Song – Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek Any interesting, valuable or... ...play with? – probably not – but Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek would definitely be amongst...

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MILES DAVIS, A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON: And a fighter by his trade . . .

...There is electro-funk jazz with Chick Corea or Keith Jarrett on electric piano, and Herbie Hancock on organ...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Phil Broadhurst

...Herbie Hancock, Manu Katche, Eliane Elias and Keith Jarrett. The final track acknowledges a more recent...

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Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note/digital outlets)

...Flower album but he also introduced pianists Keith Jarrett and Michel Petrucciani to his bands and...

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ONE WE MISSED: Corea/McBride/Blade: Trilogy 2 (Concord/Southbound)

...expression. That is why we will always give Keith Jarrett a fair hearing, especially in his trio with...

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BRANFORD MARSALIS INTERVIEWED (1988): Family matters

...heritage seen from a black perspective. Keith Jarrett can do it with Jan Garbarek and make it into a...

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Paul Bley: Play Blue (ECM/Ode)

...at another like the young and adventurous Keith Jarrett and another Cecil Taylor at his most...

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Motian/Lovano/Frisell; Time and Time Again (2007)

...of Chicago, unique individual talents such as Keith Jarrett, and a roster of interesting guitarists (Pat...

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Laraaji: Sun Piano (All Saints/digital outlets)

...one overseas writer's comparisons with Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea seems somewhat amiss. For...

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RALPH TOWNER and JOHN ABERCROMBIE (2017): Staying true in the old style

...Joe Lovano, Steve Kuhn etc) and pianists (Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, more recently Vijay Iyer, Marilyn...

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Gunter Herbig: Ex Oriente; Music by GI Gurdjieff (Bis)

...composer Thomas de Hartmann . . . and which Keith Jarrett interpreted on his 1980 ECM album Sacred Hymns...

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Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)

...check out these albums with pianist Keith...

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Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy (Universal)

...original Ornette Coleman quartet, played with Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny (among many others), is...

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MANFRED EICHER OF ECM RECORDS, INTERVIEWED (1992): Art for the artists' sake

...guitarists Metheny and Bill Frisell, pianist Keith Jarrett, saxophonist Jan Garbarek and dozens of... ...or maybe just as sidemen. Jan Garbarek and Keith Jarrett were not known in any kind of solo career, and...

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Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM/digital outlets)

...diverse as vibes player Gary Burton, pianist Keith Jarrett, guitarists Egberto Gismonti and Robben Ford,...

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JACK DeJOHNETTE (2013) From the Sixties into his 70s

...key American musicians on the label, notably Keith Jarrett whom he'd met in Lloyd's band and still plays...

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10 INFLUENTIAL JAZZ ALBUMS IN MY COLLECTION: The shape of me to come

...And too much Monk still ain't enough. . #5 Keith Jarrett, The Melody At Night, With You (1998). Any... ...of Keith Jarrett albums could be here (I have scores,... ...beautiful. Needless to say there is a lot of Keith Jarrett at Elsewhere starting here. By the way...

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CHARLIE HADEN, JAZZ BASSIST AND COMPOSER: Like dreamers do . . .

...the mid-90s, Archie Shepp, Egberto Gismonti, Keith Jarrett, Joe Lovano, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Geri...

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PRINCESS CHELSEA INTERVIEWED (2015): She are very happy-ish

...hour she knowledgeably mentions jazz composer Keith Jarrett, James Blake and Can, professes a great love...

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CHARLES LLOYD INTERVIEWED (2010): A forest flower in full bloom

...Petrucciani in 1981. Steve was also managing Keith Jarrett and knew [ECM founder/producer] Manfred... ...guess each brings something different? . . . Keith Jarrett. Michel Petrucciani. Geri Allen. Brad Mehldau....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Seamus Cahill

.... . . To get to do a song accompanied by Keith Jarrett The three films you'd insist anybody watch...

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Mal Waldron; Free At Last (ECM 2xLP/CD/digital)

...And so Eicher actively sought out sidemen (Keith Jarrett was an astute choice), European and Scandi...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2014: THE EDITOR'S CHOICES

...To read Elsewhere's full review go here Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Last Dance: We said . . ....

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Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance/digital outlets)

...roster the following year (Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Mingus among those to be let...

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10 UNUSUAL ECM ALBUMS OF THE EIGHTIES I OWN (2019): But there's no pattern to the pattern . . .

...and looking around. He quickly found pianist Keith Jarrett who had made his name with Charles Lloyd,... ...with one by the label's star player . . . Keith Jarrett: Spirits (1985) Perhaps after his successes...

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SERIOUS FUN; THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF MIKE NOCK by NORMAN MEEHAN (VUP)

...Conservatorium. Along the way Nock replaced Keith Jarrett in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (to be...

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Rolf Lislevand: Nuova Musiche (ECM New Series)

...Meredith Monk) and some highly conservative (Keith Jarrett playing Bach). For many the ECM New Series was...

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CHARLES LLOYD, CONSIDERED (2022): The 21st century man

...brought bassist Cecil McBee, the young pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette to wide attention....

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2021, THE YEAR IN REISSUES (AND SUCH).

...You can read our full review here . Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert All we will have now from... ...great Keith Jarrett (who is seriously ill and impaired) will be...

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ENRICO RAVA AND NEW YORK DAYS: The trumpet calls the faithful

It’s disappointing and embarrassing that one encounter may put you off a musician for such a long time. Then, shame-faced, you crawl your way back later and have to concede everybody else was ri

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Tord Gustavsen Ensemble: Restored, Returned (ECM/Ode)

The previous album by young ECM pianist Gustavsen at Elsewhere was his trio album Being There which was named a Best of Elsewhere 2007 album. Echoes of that group's delicate beauty and vibrant muscula

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Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rado de Nube (ECM/Ode)

The rehabilitation and resurrection of saxophonist Lloyd is outlined elsewhere at Elsewhere (see tag) but in brief it goes like this: he made huge selling album in the late 60s which was embraced by h

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JOHN McLAUGHLIN: Live in Paris . . . and New York

The opening track on guitarist John McLaughlin's Live in Paris, usefully serves as a microcosm of his career. It starts slow, melodic and considered with McLaughlin peeling off memorable phrases, then

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BILL EVANS' 1963 ALBUM MOON BEAMS: Art from the heart place

By the merest shift of the prism Moon Beams, the album by the jazz trio lead by pianist Bill Evans, could easily be under Essential Elsewhere. But that of course would deny the genius of his recording

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Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes (ECM/Ode)

American pianist Crispell was a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's often demanding quartet, and that alone tells you she knows what it means to be put on the spot under the spotlight. Br

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Mathias Eick: The Door (ECM/Ode)

On a blindfold test I doubt many who listen to Norwegian prog-rockers Jaga Jazzist would pick the trumpter leading this ECM set as the same guy from that big band. But Eick has popped up in many shape

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Manu Katche: Third Round (ECM)

This album under the name of mutli-culti French drummer Katche (who has worked with Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, Al Di Meola, Sting, Tori Amos, Tomasz Stanko, Peter Gabriel et al) has to be

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Mike Nock: An Accumulation of Subtleties (FWM/Rhythmethod)

This quite exceptional double disc by New Zealand-born pianist/composer Nock arrives with the advantage of great timing: Norman Meehan's fine biography of Nock, Serious Fun, has just been published (s

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CHICK COREA AND JOHN McLAUGHLIN'S FIVE PEACE BAND LIVE ALBUM: Nu-fusion not so confusin'

When Chick Corea and John McLaughlin’s Five Peace band played in Auckland in February of 2009, I noted these players – in the vanguard of jazz fusion in the 70s – had re-invented it

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Herbie Hancock: River, The Joni Letters (Verve)

Jazzman Hancock has long been a supporter of Mitchell so this tribute to her music -- with another longtime Joni sideman Wayne Shorter on saxes -- comes as no surprise. And Mitchell's music has long m

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyria (ECM/Ode)

Because music on the ECM label often invites a litany of familiar adjectives -- austere, cool, detached -- it's a pleasure to throw this disc into the player and find yourself thinking more along the

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Kevin Field, Ron Samsom, Olivier Holland: Irony (Rattle)

There's an old joke: if you want to make a million dollars out of jazz, start with two million. Jazz is notoriously unprofitable for its performers and record companies (a decent selling jazz album in

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JACQUES LOUSSIER AT 75: Bach and all that jazz

Jacques Loussier, who popularised jazz back when television was broadcast in black and white, says his career came about by accident. Half a century on from his first album and four decades-plus since

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Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror (ECM/Ode)

Anyone who has seen this extraordinary quartet recently -- they played in New Zealand earlier this year, Lloyd interviewed here -- will need not further prodding on this album other than to know it is

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Jan Garbarek: Rites (ECM)

Norwegian saxophonist Garbarek scored a huge crossover album in 1995 with Officium which lined him up with the Hilliard Ensemble for an inspired marriage of the spiritual and the secular which ended u

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AL DI MEOLA INTERVIEWED (2009): Guitarist from the loud to the listener

At 55, Al Di Meola -- who still lives in New Jersey close to his musical roots -- has had a long and influential career, and was one of the great innovators on electric guitar. In the late Sixties and

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM/Ode)

Pianist Wasilewski who leads this trio has appeared a number of times previously at Elsewhere, with this group, as a member of Tomasz Stanko's ensemble and with trumpetr Enrico Rava. He -- and his tri

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Marilyn Crispell and David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM/Ode)

American pianist Marilyn Crispell is one of those rarities: classically trained, she jumped in at the very deep and demanding end of the jazz pool – free jazz, Cecil Taylor, the ferociously inte

Music at Elsewhere: music/3378/best-of-elsewhere-2010-marilyn-crispell-and-david-rothenberg-one-dark-night-i-left-my-silent-house-ecm-ode/

PIANIST VIJAY IYER PROFILED (2009): The jazzman has a master plan

Among the many things Wynton Marsalis learned from Miles Davis was this: never undersell yourself. If you know you’re a genius just say so. If you know the past and future of jazz just tell peop

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2779/pianist-vijay-iyer-profiled-2009-the-jazzman-has-a-master-plan/

Vallon, Moret, Rohrer: Rruga (ECM/Ode)

This is ECM piano trio jazz certainly, but young pianist/composer Colin Vallon brings something different and unusual to these 11 pieces, most of which are his originals or by drummer Samuel Rohrer. (

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/4051/vallon-moret-rohrer-rruga-ecm-ode/

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January (ECM)

If you go to the Thomas Stanko essay/review under Absolute Elsewhere (see tag) you may read at the end my cheap witticism about the names of these guys. That said, it works for me -- I took one look a

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1476/marcin-wasilewski-trio-january-ecm/

Julia Hulsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM/Ode)

While few would deny the gentle beauty of these trio recordings (and, not incidentally, the impressive playing of drummer Heinrich Kobberling), this too often suffers the fate of some similarly-concei

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/4015/julia-hulsmann-trio-imprint-ecm-ode/

Tsabropoulos, Lechner, Gandhi: Melos (ECM/Ode)

On a first encounter you will think you won't get much bbq season play out of this melancholy, autumnal album of original pieces by pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos and interpretations of short compostio

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2082/tsabropoulos-lechner-gandhi-melos-ecm-ode/

Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water (ECM/Ode)

After the superb duet album The Third Man with trumpeter Enrico Rava, this one by pianist Bollani (with bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund) was always going to attract the attention of El

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2638/stefano-bollani-stone-in-the-water-ecm-ode/

TRILOGUE; LIVE IN BERLIN 1976, a concert film (Jazz Shots/Southbound DVD)

The tragic story of bassist Jaco Pastorius (1961-87) has been told in depth at Elsewhere (here) but this concert film from '76 -- with avant-trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and drummer Alphonse Mouzon

Film at Elsewhere: film/3158/trilogue-live-in-berlin-1976-a-concert-film-jazz-shots-southbound-dvd/

Jon Balke: Book of Velocities (ECM/Ode)

From the school of "so spare it's barely there" comes this delightful, melodic and restful debut solo album by the Norwegian pianist Balke, here improvising through 19 short pieces (the long

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1423/jon-balke-book-of-velocities-ecm-ode/

TERJE RYPDAL, ECM GUITARIST (2009): The career, and careering across the disc

Like many artists on the ECM label, the Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal is largely faceless: you could have listened to his albums for decades as I have done and still pass him in the supermarket and

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2591/terje-rypdal-ecm-guitarist-2009-the-career-and-careering-across-the-disc/

BEN WEBSTER AND ART TATUM CONSIDERED (2008): Genius loves company

In my experience, jazz people tend to live in the past. Radio programmes are more often about the greats of yesteryear than the living, jazz mags essay Ellington over ECM, and in any given year you g

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/466/ben-webster-and-art-tatum-considered-2008-genius-loves-company/

Wolfert Brederode, Currents (ECM/Ode)

Minimalism may have run its course but there are pieces on this appealing album by pianist Brederode (and group) which find a romantic heart within the steady pulse. Brederode and his band -- Claudio

Music at Elsewhere: music/1534/wolfert-brederode-currents-ecm-ode/

Miroslav Vitous Group: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)

With the reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin; bassist Stanley Clarke back with another trio album with pianist Hiromi and drummer Lenny White; Clarke, Corea, White and guitarist Al Di Meola ret

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2510/miroslav-vitous-group-remembering-weather-report-ecm/

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