Hi folks, ECM fans will know Markus Stockhausen from Karta and Aparis. Together with guitarist Ferenc Snetberger, and the other two-thirds of Karta, Arild ...
Hi Folks, Two recent discs recently reviewed and of potential interest: E_L_B (Peter Erskine/Nguyen Le/Michel Benita): Dream Flight, the followup to this...
Folks: I recently found a truly extraordinary unofficial Towner recording that is downloadable on the Net if you can handle .rar files. (Even Macs can do it...
Hi all, Not a specific review but, rather, coverage of a week-long trip to Norway that included performances by some unknown Norwegian artists and many who...
... **Thanks-- very informative. Many startlingly interesting musicians. Ed ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family ...
Hi everyone, Singer and often-times Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor musical partner has her first ECM album out in two decades. Distances is a trio outing like her...
... **Nice record. To me it's a little bit more like 'Somewhere Called Home' for ECM in '87 than Azimuth. I wish she and Ralph would record one. Ed ...
I saw Ralph recently and reminded him of the rumour he and she were going to do a project. He said it kinda fell through the cracks, but then said he really...
... **I don't know if I'd go that far :)-- I've really grown to love that Norma album; but I do think Venier & Gesing are excellent-- & interesting combination...
WHile I generally hate comparisons, what I find about the new disc is a different kind of communication than SOmewhere Called Home. You can't say that Taylor...
Hi all, Pat Metheny Trio (McBride/Sanchez) live EP, Tokyo Day Trip, is reviewed at AAJ today: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29559 Best! Dave...
... I remember Ralph bitching at a concert about the first ECM cover -- "It doesn't really look like us." And "Ecotopia" seemed to vanish from the stores...
I seem to recall reading that Eicher and Walcott were close, and that when Trilok Gurtu joined the band, he and Eicher didn't see eye to eye. Awkward position...
Not really. Ralph's relationship with ECM has, with the exception of that relatively brief period in the '80s, been completely independent of Oregon. Oregon...
Ralph told me once that Manfred just doesn't like his piano playing, which kind of takes Oregon out of the picture. Sandy Prager www.sandypragermusic.com...
... I seem to recall reading (or hearing a radio reproduction of) an interview with Ralph in which he was asked that question. If memory serves, his reply was...
That was my understanding - they needed more time to record as they all live very far from each other and rehearsals are minimal. I don't agree with Manfred...
... I agree about Ralph's piano playing. It's more than icing on the cake; it's yet another weapon in a formidable musical arsenal. In the early days (e.g.,...
Hi all, A review of a new DVD documentary, Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe, may be of interest to those here who feel the European contribution ...
... does)? ... For what its worth, I think that some of the Oregon releases on CamJazz and Intuition would easily have sounded at home on ECM. Those other ...
Hi all, For those interested, a lengthy analysis of Bill Frisell's latest two-disc set is up at AAJ today: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29671...
Well, this is a provocative paragraph from a review of a recent performance by singer Jacqui Dankworth: "Her part-rewrite of Ella Fitzgerald's Baby Won't You...
"Ralph Towner's Beppo becomes a previously unsuspected dance hit " I heard Oregon do this song eons ago. Ralph introduced it by saying that Beppo was the name...
... **It's on his album w. Gary Peacock, 'A Closer View.' I think on one of the Oregon albums w. Gurtu-- 'Always Never and Forever' perhaps-- have to check ...
... Yes, "Always, Never, and Forever". I too heard him tell the dog story, at a solo show 13 or 14 years ago at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. He opened the...
Sorry I can't delete some of the extraneous advertisement at the bottom of this (it's a Yahoo formatting thing). Ed - You're right about the two places where...
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