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[Ron Thorne]

Exciting news in my Inbox this morning:

Dear ECM Newsletter Subscriber,

We’re pleased to re-introduce some exceptional music to our listeners. Here are titles that have been out of print for too long, with music by Keith Jarrett, Gary Burton, Sam Rivers, Miroslav Vitous, Abdullah Ibrahim, John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner, returning now as 180g LP, as CD and as high-resolution download.

Plus, in our special offer, albums of the great Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, who celebrates his 75th birthday on January 27.


Best wishes,
ECM Records


ECM Re:solutions
"The story of our listening"
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/Oth ... utions.php)


There was Classical Music. There was Jazz. There even was Rock. Then there was one record company that didn’t care. It devoted itself to all kinds of music, as long as it was good. It shaped the story of our listening.

Seven historical albums, mastered from original analog sources, issued simultaneously in three formats – as 180 gram vinyl albums, as CDs and as high-resolution download files (24 bit/96 kHz). Follow the great arc of music on these early ECM productions, with works for orchestra and improvisers, guitar duo, solo piano, and jazz quartet.

These are the titles:

Gary Burton: Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1000/1040.php)

Keith Jarrett: Arbour Zena
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1000/1070.php)

Keith Jarrett: Ritual
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1100/1112.php)

Sam Rivers: Contrasts
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1100/1162.php)

Miroslav Vitous Group: Miroslav Vitous Group
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1100/1185.php)

John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner: Five Years Later
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1200/1207.php)

Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano
(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/JAPO/3602.php)


Please also check our list of all available LPs: http://www.ecmrecords.com/News/Special_ ... -Liste.php


Special Offer

January 27th is the 75th birthday of Tigran Mansurian, one of contemporary music’s most original composers and an important presence on ECM New Series, the label which has helped to bring wider attention to his work. For this occasion our special offer consists of all releases related to him. Here you can find the complete list.
(http://www.ecmrecords.com/News/Special_ ... surian.php)

For detailed information about Mansurian please click here
(http://www.ecmrecords.com/News/Diary/47 ... _at_75.php)

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Looking forward to getting CDs of Five Years Later & Contrasts.

...and that Abercrombie Qt box too.

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"On February 28 in Europe and March 4 in the US, ECM will issue “Mutations” by Vijay Iyer."

Vijay Iyer piano, electronics
Miranda Cuckson violin
Michi Wiancko violin
Kyle Armbrust viola
Kivie Cahn-Lipman violoncello

Sounds good count me in.

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Gary Burton: Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra

I also want this. Under recorded Mick Goodrick is on it.

[Ron Thorne]

That's a sterling recording, with great soloing from Goodrick, but let's not overlook the extraordinary contributions of Michael Gibbs on this beauty.

Recorded a year earlier, the album below is another gem, if you haven't already heard it. Highly recommended.



Gary Burton
The New Quartet

Gary Burton vibraphone
Mick Goodrick guitar
Abraham Laboriel bass
Harry Blazer drums

Recorded March 5/6, 1973 at Aengus Studios, Fayville, Massachusetts
Engineer: John Nagy
Produced by Manfred Eicher

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Don't have The New Quartet on CD.

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From a recent e-mail. This should be most interesting. The first track sounds wonderful.






Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring renowned US jazz players Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade. Muthspiel – who recently made his first ECM appearance on Travel Guide as a member of a cooperative trio with fellow guitarists Ralph Towner and Slava Grigoryan – has enjoyed long, productive musical friendships live and on record with both Grenadier and Blade, leading to a sense of telepathic interplay on Driftwood. The trio creates a ravishing sound, captured with fidelity at Rainbow Studio in Oslo. Muthspiel has been praised by The Times of London for his “restless musical imagination”. Lyrical, grooving and atmospheric by turns, the guitarist’s compositions on Driftwood include tributes to his heroes Joe Zawinul and Michael Brecker.

[Ron Thorne]

In my Inbox from ECM this morning:

We are pleased to announce the release of Last Dance by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden, “as good as ‘Jasmine’”, The Guardian writes. “There are plenty of rapturous love songs, but for all their warm glow, this duo constantly invests them with strength and urgency.”


Best wishes,
ECM Records









Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Bud Powell’s spritely “Dance Of The Infidels”. Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with tender versions of “My Old Flame”, “My Ship”, “It Might As Well Be Spring”, “Everything Happens To Me”, and “Every Time We Say Goodbye” as well as versions of “Where Can I Go Without You” and “Goodbye” which are every bit as touching as the Jasmine renditions. “When we play together it’s like two people singing”, said Jarrett of his reunion with Haden. The intentions of the song are honoured, the shades of meaning in a melody or a lyric explored instrumentally. As Charlie Haden put it, “Keith really listens, and I listen. That’s the secret. It’s about listening.” The music of Last Dance was recorded at Keith Jarrett’s home studio.

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[Steve Lake]

Hi Ron –
We recorded a new album with Kenny Wheeler at Abbey Road Studios in London a few months ago.
Yet to be mixed, it features Kenny’s fine quintet with Stan Sulzmann, John Parricelli, Chris Laurence and Martin France.

Jon Christensen, as I may have mentioned earlier, is featured in guitarist Jakob Bro’s trio, with Thomas Morgan on bass. Their album’s being mixed next month.

Ralph Towner – nothing scheduled at the moment. But we still think of his “Travel Guide” album (released in Autumn 2013) as a “new” release.

To the other question above, I can confirm that Mr Kelman lists the contents of the Abercrombie box correctly.
As he should, since he wrote the liner notes... I still don’t have a release date for that, however.
The schedule for the second half of the year remains in flux.

Best wishes,
Steve

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