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MARTIN BRUNNER TRIO - BEHIND THE CLOUDS
ARTA, F10176     8595017417627

Martin Brunner: piano, Martin Kapusník: double-bass, bassguitar, Petr Mikeš: drums


JAROSLAV ŠIMÍČEK QUARTET - THE WAY HOME
ARTA, F10177     8595017417726

Radek Zapadlo: tenor saxophone, Benko: piano, Jaroslav Šimíček: double-bass, Tomáš Hobzek: drums


JOHN SURMAN – BREWSTER´S ROOSTER
ECM 2046     602527011127

John Surman: baritone and soprano saxophone, John Abercrombie: guitar, Drew Gress: double-bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums

After ECM recordings with organ (“Rain on the Window”), strings (“The Spaces In Between”), brass ensemble (“Free and Equal”), choir (“Proverbs and Songs”), and early music experiments with the Dowland Project (“Romaria”). John Surman offers an album unequivocally jazz in its orientation. Soulful ballads, hard-driving pieces and fiery improvisations are all to be found here, and Surman is in best creative form on baritone and soprano saxophones. Both Surman and guitarist Abercrombie have long musical relationships with powerhouse drummer DeJohnette, and all three are in accord at a high level. A strong showing, too, for bassist Drew Gress in his ECM debut. Music is all by Surman, apart from “Slanted Sky” by old comrade John Warren, and the timeless “Chelsea Bridge” of Billy Strayhorn.



EGBERTO GISMONTI – SAUDACOES
ECM 2082/83     602517972803

CD1 - Sertoes Veredas - Camerata Romeu, directed by Zenaida Romeu
CD2 - Duetos de Violoes - Alexandre Gismonti: guitars, Egberto Gismonti: guitars

Egberto Gismonti’s first new ECM recording in 14 years is a double-album that indicates the range of his artistry. Disc one features Gismonti the composer on a 70-minute journey through Brazil: “Sertões Veredas – tribute to miscegenation”. It is a work that takes account of Brazil’s culture and history, landscapes and cityscapes, vividly evoked by Cuba’s all-women orchestra the Camerta Romeu, under the leadership of Zenaida Romeu. Disc two features Gismonti the guitarist in an exciting duo recital with his similarly-gifted son Alexandre, romping through a programme that includes such well-known pieces as “Zig Zag”, “Lundú” and “Dança dos Escravos”.


STEVE KUHN TRIO w JOE LOVANO – MOSTLY COLTRANE
ECM 2099     602527011141

Steve Kuhn: piano, Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone, tarogato, David Finck: double-bass, Joey Baron: drums

A recording that pays tribute to a musician of towering importance – and for Steve Kuhn an album of powerful memories. For two months in 1960, Kuhn, then just 21 years old, was the pianist in John Coltrane’s quartet: an unforgettable experience for a young musician, to embark each night into jazz of such torrential emotional intensity. Half-a-century later, joined by a team of gifted collaborators playing at the top of their form, Kuhn rechannels the energies of the era in an album of astonishing invention and wild beauty. Kuhn and Joe Lovano improvise gloriously together, riding the surging waves of Joey Baron’s polyrhythms, in a programme of tunes written by or strongly associated with Coltrane. Tracks include “Welcome”, “Song of Praise”, “Central Park West”, “Spiritual” and more. Recorded December 2008 at New York’s Avatar Studio.


KURTÁGONALS
ECM New Series 2097     028947632603

László Hortobágyi: synthesizers, computers, György Kurtág jr.: synthesizers, Miklós Lengyelfi: bass, effects

György Kurtág Jr., son of the great Hungarian composer, has long been developing his own electronic music. In this unusual project, fellow composer László Hortobágyi integrates Kurtág themes into his own arrangements in a recording that celebrates a long friendship. “This is,” say the group members, “a Hortobágyi album about Kurtág,” as well as “an invitation to discover a new sphere of music”. Drifting ambient washes of synthesized sound, near-subliminal bass, collages of subtle colours and sudden eruptions are but part of the story. An intriguing addition to ECM’s growing catalogue of electronica for discerning listeners.

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