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John Surman/Jack DeJohnette: The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon
In the 1980s, Surman, DeJohnette and indeed ECM had grown to such iconic status that it's no surprise that then,...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Terje Rypdal & The Chasers: Blue
Audun Kleive | Bjorn Kjellemyr | Terje Rypdal
You can hear the Hedvig Mollestad Trio purring at this reissue: as ever this is an ECM no frills revisit,...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto: Love, Love
Quite simply the funkiest thing ECM has ever released. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto was, along with Bennie Maupin, the Herbie...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Barre Phillips: Mountainscapes
Dieter Feichtner | John Abercrombie | Stu Martin | John Surman | Barre Phillips
Phillips' spellbinding 2018 album End To End showed his mastery of the relatively rare solo bass format. This 1976 set...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
David Torn: Cloud About Mercury
Tony Levin | David Torn | Mark Isham | Bill Bruford
Guitarist David Torn was a key member of Jan Garbarek's quartet in the mid-1980s, around the same time he cut...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Steve Kuhn: Trance
Steve Kuhn | Jack DeJohnette | Sue Evans | Steve Swallow
This welcome release brings back into the catalogue Kuhn's most loved album. By the time it was recorded, the former...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Miroslav Vitous: Journey's End
Jon Christensen | Miroslav Vitous | John Taylor | John Surman
Some may lament Kenny Kirkland's replacement by John Taylor in this band, something like Vitous' third quartet recording on ECM....
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Chick Corea/Gary Burton: Crystal Silence
Recorded in one day for a small German label few had heard of in 1972, it was really the start...
Reviewed in issue August/2019
Mick Goodrick: In Pas(s)ing
Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette | John Surman | Mick Goodrick
The bandstand's loss has been jazz education's gain in the case of Mick Goodrick, the Berklee-taught guitarist who was Pat...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1
The contemporary solo piano record could well be said to have begun with this 1971 album by Chick Corea for...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
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