Ten years after the death of Paul Motian, an ensemble led by Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano met in Copenhagen to record Once Around the Room, a powerful personal tribute to Motian’s […]
Variety (*) is reporting that a new film, ‘Music for Black Pigeons’, by Danish directors Andreas Koefoed and Jørgen Leth will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. The […]
Craig Taborn – Shadow Plays (ECM 2693. CD review by John Stevenson) Known for several decades as an adventurous sideman in the equally daring ensembles of saxophonists James Carter, Tim Berne, and […]
Keith Jarrett: A Biography. Wolfgang Sandner (author)/ Chris Jarrett (translator) (Equinox Books. 230pp. Book Review by John Bungey) With the great American pianist announcing that his performing career is almost certainly over, […]
Dominik Wania – Lonely Shadows (ECM 0869583. CD review by Mary James) Lonely Shadows, a solo album by Polish pianist Dominik Wania is the result of much patience: it’s been seven years […]
“Finding myself on this label under my own name is a dream come true.” Dominik Wania is an outstanding young Polish pianist of a striking originality, whose fully improvised solo piano album […]
Terje Rypdal – Conspiracy (ECM 6025 0895911 Review by Graham Spry) For followers of Terje Rypdal’s 50 years of recording on ECM, listening to Conspiracy is like immersing oneself in a warm […]
