Metheny alone and, mostly, acoustic, playing folk-flavoured compositions. Pat viewed this as “an autobiographical album. It’s got a lot to do with the American Midwest. It’s very open and spacious.” Pat Metheny is one of those rare artists whose virtuosity is so fluid that it is no longer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"Offramp" is the third album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. It contains the popular ballad "Are You Going with Me?". Offramp is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, a Roland GR-300 ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
(aka “The White Album”) Pat Metheny Group (Remastered)
When the Pat Metheny Group released this debut album on ECM in 1978, the musicianship of Pat was already beginning to turn some heads. His previous trio album for ECM in 1976, featuring Jaco Pastoris (bass) and Bob Moses (drums), had forced the world of traditional jazz to take notice of this contemporary sound. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Remastered)
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls is a collaborative album by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, released in 1981. The title makes reference to Wichita, Kansas and Wichita Falls, Texas. The title tune is just under 21 minutes. It is one of the few albums where Metheny not only acts as both the lead and accompanying guitarist but also the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"First Circle" was Pat Metheny's last recording for ECM, before signing with Geffen Records.With new members Pedro Aznar and Paul Wertico, the group was set for its next phase. Metheny's musical touchstones are all here - South America, spirited rock, and de-tuned sonic parody. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you. Compiled from the group’s touring activities in 1982, this double set is a must-have. From the glittering lotus of melody that is “San Lorenzo” to the even more effusive “Phase Dance,” the requisite classics are all here. We also get a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"Rejoicing" is an album by the guitarist Pat Metheny that was released in 1984 by ECM. It features the guitarist in a trio with Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, both of whom played and recorded with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to his own compositions, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
“Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here” the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared. “Metheny’s compositions are perfect vehicles for his guitar, which blends smoothly with the breathtaking ensemble work.” The recording is the first of Pat’s albums to feature Lyle Mays ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Larger ensembles may have provided Pat Metheny with his most visible successes, but he's repeatedly fired up his most fluid and personal playing in leaner trio settings, starting with this, his 1976 debut as a leader. Bob Moses brings both delicacy and effortless dynamics to his drumming, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Das erstmalige Zusammentreffen des dynamischen Trios um Marcin Wasilewski mit dem US-Tenoristen Joe Lovano und seinem voluminösen Ton bringt eine besondere Musik von konzentriertem, tiefem Gefühl hervor, in der Lyrik und Kraft ideal ausgewogen scheinen. Diese Allianz spielt auf Arctic Riff vier ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Unter dem Titel "Swallow Tales" hat Gitarrist John Scofield im Trio mit Steve Swallow und Bill Stewart ein ganzes Album mit Kompositionen des einzigartigen Bassisten eingespielt. Auf "Swallow Tales" verneigt sich der Gitarrist John Scofield musikalisch vor seinem langjährigen ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Nach Aufnahmen als Sideman von Louis Sclavis und Vincent Courtois legt der französische Pianist Benjamin Moussay mit "Promontoire" sein erstes eigenes Album bei ECM vor. "Promontoire", benannt nach einem Ort in den Vogesen, ist für den Franzosen zugleich auch das ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Neues Remaster! Die Verbindung zu Keith Jarrett lässt sich bei diesem hochgelobten und zweifellos grandiosen Album leicht herstellen: Beide haben für ECM Aufnahmen gemacht, aus Jarretts American Quartet stammen mit Charlie Haden und Dewey Redman zwei exzellente Musiker, die bei „80/81“ mitwirkten und beide ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Auf dem Album "Rivages" präsentiert sich der Akkordeonist Jean-Louis Matinier in einem neuen französischen Duo mit dem Gitarristren Kevin Seddiki. Der französische Akkordeonspieler Jean-Louis Matinier konnte seine Kreativität in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren schon auf einer ganzen Reihe von ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you. Compiled from the group’s touring activities in 1982, this double set is a must-have. From the glittering lotus of melody that is “San Lorenzo” to the even more effusive “Phase Dance,” the requisite classics are all here. We also get a curtailed, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Along with the work of CODONA, Magico is perhaps a forerunner in what would come to be known as “world music,” and a pinnacle among ECM’s fruitful productions of the 1970s. Although the talents assembled could hardly be more geographically disparate, their musical heartbeats trace the same calm graph across the EKG paper that is our ...
Along with the work of CODONA, Magico is perhaps a forerunner in what would come to be known as “world music,” and a pinnacle among ECM’s fruitful productions of the 1970s. Although the talents assembled could hardly be more geographically disparate, their musical heartbeats trace the same calm graph across the EKG paper that is our ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
In Jon Balkes einzigartigem Solowerk verwischen die Grenzen zwischen Komposition, Improvisation und Sounddesign. Auf Discourses wird die Methodik, die der norwegische Pianist mit seinem Album Warp eingeführte hatte, weiterentwickelt. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Sun Bear Concerts Live (Remastered)
Keith Jarretts "Sun Bear Concerts" sind ohne Zweifel eines der monumentalsten Werke, die je auf einem Tonträger dokumentiert wurden. Die ursprünglich zehn LPs der "Sun Bear Concerts"-Box (die später auf sechs CDs wiederöffentlicht wurden) enthielten Aufzeichnungen von fünf kompletten Konzerten, die der für seine ...
Komponist: Keith Jarrett
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Take one look at the thoughtful cover art of this seminal Keith Jarrett release, and you’ll gain immediate insight into what makes his trio click. Each curvaceous line brings a lifetime of movement, of study, and of passion to bear on the music at hand. And with these six standards resurrected to ...
Komponist: Keith Jarrett
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Cyrillus Kreek - The Suspended Harp of Babel
Meditativ und fließend. Konzentriert und klar wie ein Bergbach: Das estnische Vokalensemble Vox Clamantis stellt auf dem neuen Album The Suspended Harp of Babel Chorwerke von Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) vor, die durch ihre einnehmende Klanglichkeit faszinieren. Lange ein Geheimtipp ...
Komponist: Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
