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With Steve Coleman, Julian Priester, Marvin Smitty Smith and Kenny Wheeler.
‘Her unique pianistic voice in a varied programme of almost exclusively original music, composed by herself and her colleagues – tenor saxophonist Uli Kempendorff, Marc Muellbauer on double bass and drummer Heinrich Köbberling. A deep respect for the jazz tradition, especially the post-bop and modal jazz of the 60s, permeates this session, and with the quartet’s modern twist, the stage is set for highly expressive soloing and profound interplay.’
Brilliant piano-trio jazz; warmly recommended.
‘Break Stuff’: what happens after formal considerations… a time for action… breakdowns, breakbeats, break dancing…
Hood is a humbly bamboozled tribute to Robert Hood. Work is for Iyer’s beloved Thelonious Monk. Countdown sets Trane to a West African rhythm. Mystery Woman is driven by the compound pulses of South Indian drumming. There’s a desolate, barely-there solo version of Billy Strayhorn’s Blood Count…
With Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh, exploring Iyer originals, Geri Allen’s Drummer’s Song and Cole Porter’s Night and Day.
‘Heartbreaking clarity and economy of expression… to the accompaniment of pianist Iyer’s wistful melodic fragments and pregnant clusters. Smith can project a tender fragility through a single lingering note, reminiscent of Miles at his most thoughtful and noirish circa Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud’ (The Wire).
‘‘There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth,’ according to London Jazz News Among the highlights here is opener Reconstructing A Dream, a darkly lyrical reverie. To Stanko is Bro’s hushed tribute to the late, great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who featured the guitarist in his ECM album Dark Eyes. Another homage to a late elder is Music For Black Pigeons, given its evocative title by Lee Konitz. Listeners will recognize Henriksen’s whispering, poetic sound from his 2008 ECM album Cartography, as well as his collaborations with Trio Mediaeval and Tigran Hamasyan. Rossy is celebrated for his decade-plus tenure in Brad Mehldau’s first trio. As for the leader, in the words of DownBeat, ‘Bro’s guitar is luminous… his music both hypnotic and dramatic.’‘
Playing tenor and bass saxophones, clarinet, flutes, percussion, in 1970 — with Terje Rypdal, guitar and bugle, Arild Andersen bass, african thumb piano and xylophone, and Jon Christensen, percussion.
Rainer Bruninghaus, keyboards; Eberhard Weber, bass; Manu Katche drums; Marilyn Mazur percussion; Agnes Buen Garnas, vocal; Mari Boine, vocal.
With Ustad Fateh Ali Khan singing; Ustad Shaukat Hussain, tabla; Ustad Nazim Ali Khan, sarangi; Deepika Thathaal, voice; Manu Katche, drums.
With Miroslav Vitous and Pete Erskine.
Gorgeous, direct duets, love songs, close in spirit to The Melody At Night With You.
Duets by Anouar Brahem’s accordionist and the classically-trained guitarist Seddiki, ranging from Greensleeves through Faure to their own improvisations and compositions.
Luminessence series.
Solo double-bass, recorded in Rio.
Versions of Nardis and Love Theme From Spartacus — two favourites from his time with Bill Evans — plus Eddie Harris’ Freedom Jazz Dance, alongside five Johnson originals.