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Paul Motian: Conception Vessel (ECM)

...ECM label, this one from 1973 under drummer Paul Motian's name is an oddity in the ECM catalogue:...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/1902/paul-motian-conception-vessel-ecm/

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

...think. The musicians on this album -- drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe...

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Motian/Frisell/Lovano: Time and Time Again (ECM/Ode)

...musicians -- drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe...

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1250/motian-frisell-lovano-time-and-time-again-ecm-ode/

Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)

A 2009 ECM superstar session where Lee, Brad, Charlie and Paul played standards (Lover Man, Lullaby of Birdland, Oleo etc) from which this finely wrought, sensitive selection was drawn. Pianist Mehlda

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/4338/konitz-mehldau-haden-motian-live-at-birdland-ecm-ode/

Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance)

...trio with pianist Bill Evans and drummer Paul Motian. His gentle, often high, singing tone allowed...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3343/scott-lafaro-pieces-of-jade-resonance/

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

...Scott LaFaro in late Fifites (and drummer Paul Motian) with whom he developed an intuitive... ...previous. However with Israels (and again Paul Motian) he started to feel his way back into the...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2914/bill-evans-1963-album-moon-beams-art-from-the-heart-place/

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

...to Bollani, Rava calls on the great drummer Paul Motian (a man renown for his angular approach to...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2209/enrico-rava-and-new-york-days-the-trumpet-calls-the-faithful/

JOE LOVANO INTERVIEWED (2008): Life is in the learning

...in the early 70s; the other is with drummer Paul Motian with whom he has recorded and toured with (and... ...-- well, many parallel careers in fact -- with Paul Motian and Bill Frisell, a very different and quite...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1916/joe-lovano-interviewed-2008-life-is-in-the-learning/

CARLA BLEY, PAUL HAINES. ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL, CONSIDERED (1972): Are you along for the ride?

...Jordan, Linda Ronstadt, John McLaughlin, Paul Motian . . . Do we need to go on? This is big and...

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

...trio with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Paul Motian (which became Jarrett's American Quartet with...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/6727/jarrett-haden-motian-hamburg-72-ecm-ode/

Jakob Dinesen: Slow Flow (April/download)

...played with some of the contemporary greats (Paul Motian, Jeff Watts, Steve Swallow, Tony Allen, Eddie...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/11377/jakob-dinesen-slow-flow-april-download/

PHAROAH SANDERS; IN THE BEGINNING (2013): The call of the free

...with Bley's quartet (Izenzon and drummer Paul Motian) and their alternate takes – Generous 1...

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/5535/pharoah-sanders-in-the-beginning-2013-the-call-of-the-free/

JOE LOVANO, A CAREER CONSIDERATION (2004): Sax in every direction

...a dream band: bassist George Mraz, drummer Paul Motian and pianist Hank Jones. Mraz and Jones have...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1867/joe-lovano-a-career-consideration-2004-sax-in-every-direction/

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

...with Miles Davis, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Ron Carter, George Benson (before he claimed...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1874/keith-jarrett-the-melody-at-night-with-you-1999-distilling-genius/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Alan Brown

...and especially the trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, I’d go to the Village Vanguard sessions...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Tania Giannouli

...Keith Jarrett, Roland Dyens, Charles Mingus, Paul Motian. And finally, is there a track on your most...

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Fly: Year of the Snake (ECM/Ode)

...with numerous ECM artists (Dave Holland, Paul Motian) as well as Brad Mehldau, Billy Hart and James...

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Bill Frisell Band: Lookout For Hope (ECM)

...couldn't make an ECM session with drummer Paul Motian. Frisell sat in and that album Psalm in 82 is... ...in small print on albums by Elvis Costello, Paul Motian and saxophonist Joe Lovano, John Zorn, Jan...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1834/bill-frisell-band-lookout-for-hope-ecm/

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

...(pianist Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, drummer Paul Motian) on the '62 Waltz for Debbie album “set...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/7809/ralph-towner-and-john-abercrombie-2017-staying-true-in-the-old-style/

The Julia Hulsmann Trio: The End of A Summer (ECM)

...such albums by the Gary Burton Quintet , Paul Motian and Bill Frisell. But of course ECM has an...

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Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne: Unwind (Rattle)

...and a respectful reference to the late drummer Paul Motian from this drummer-less trio). We happily leave...

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JOHN SURMAN: The casually-dressed career

...mainstays like Pat Metheny (American Garage), Paul Motian (Conception Vessel) and Charles Lloyd Quartet...

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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

Music at Elsewhere: music/4275/best-of-elsewhere-2011-marcin-wasilewski-trio-faithful-ecm-ode/

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

As much as a disembodied voice down a phone line can, Manfred Eicher confirms the impression he made on English journalist Richard Cook when he visited London in late ’89: “He is a slim, r

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3157/manfred-eicher-of-ecm-records-interviewed-1992-art-for-the-artists-sake/

BILL FRISELL PROFILED (2017): Guitarist without portfolio

...Peter Erskine (of Weather Report) and drummer Paul Motian among many others. He recorded three albums...

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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

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2664/jan-garbarek-rites-ecm/

John Abercrombie Quartet: Wait Till You See Her (ECM/Ode)

For the first two-thirds of this album featuring guitarist Abercrombie, violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron, the more vigorous emotions are kept in check: the tunes br

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2690/john-abercrombie-quartet-wait-till-you-see-her-ecm-ode/

Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM/Ode)

The album title here perhaps suggest rather more shadowland than is evident in these beautiful, sometimes light-filled duets by acoustic guitarist Towner and flugel/trumpet player Fresu. Certainly the

Music at Elsewhere: music/2873/ralph-towner-and-paolo-fresu-chiaroscuro-ecm-ode/

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

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2985/manu-katche-third-round-ecm/

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

For exceptional people, we make an exception. And saxophonist Charles Lloyd is certainly exceptional. Not just because he enjoyed that rarity in jazz, a hit album (Forest Flower in 66 which anticipate

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3077/charles-lloyd-interviewed-2010-a-forest-flower-in-full-bloom/

Jacob Young: Sideways (ECM/Ode)

With the same refined band as on his ECM debut of three years or so ago, this Norwegian-American guitarist has once again crafted an album of subtle shades, gentle lyricism and persuasive melodies. At

Music at Elsewhere: music/1461/jacob-young-sideways-ecm-ode/

Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem: Purcor; Songs for Saxophone and Piano (ECM/Ode)

On a blindfold test -- "What record label is this on?" -- my money would be on greater than 90 percent of music-aware Elsewhere people saying immediately "ECM", and about half of t

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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/

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