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Listening to ECM catalog in order; all "reviews" are subjective; unofficial: not affiliated with ECM Records 🇩🇪 Dan Hewins @hewins 🇺🇸 based in Tokyo 🇯🇵
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I’ve created a playlist of my top selections form the ECM catalog. I’ll continue to update it as I listen. (Yes, there is a disproportionate amount of Paul Motian on here.) Have a listen.
Are there any songs you would add? Remove?
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2822 Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori, Ziv Ravitz "Ashes To Gold"
Recorded November 2023, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines
Following “Naked Truth,” A suite in nine parts, “Ashes to Gold” is another multi-part suite, this time in five parts, with the same...
...between parts I and II and Ravitz’s snare brings a martial element to part I. Noting the recording year, the circumstances surrounding the composition of this suite is well known, which had a profound effect on the music.
Then the group plays “Adagio assai” from Ravel’s G...
2821 Oded Tzur "My Prophet"
Recorded November 2023, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines
Tzur is on a roll. "Here Be Dragons" and "Isabela" were excellent records, But dare I say that "My Prophet" is even better? Could it be that pianist Nitai Hershkovits is getting...
...this theory to know what's actually happening, but when I hear it I know it. Hershkovits is all over that.
Every track on this album is fantastic.
Here's my request to you if you've read this far: (1) tell me what's happening on the piano and where I can hear more if it...
2820 Tord Gustavsen Trio "Seeing"
Recorded October 2023, Studios La Buissonne
I’ve been enjoying Tord Gustavsen’s trio albums since 2018, and he’s been making them since 2003 on ECM. Throughout that entire time, Jarle Vespestad has been on the drums with Gustavsen...
...expression.
When I think of ECM piano trios, I think about Tord Gustavsen, Marcin Wasilewski, Peter Erskine, Julia HĂĽlsmann, Colin Vallon, and Bobo Stenson. Keith is Keith and stands separate. Yes, there are so many more, but these are the ones that come to my mind. I could..