Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition Box (ECM 2296-99)(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2200/2296_99.php)Special Edition – a band with revolving membership and an incredible cast of soloists including David Murray, Arthur Blythe and Chico Freeman – was one of the most sophisticated vehicles for Jack DeJohnette’s all-around talents. This set brings together the albums Special Edition, Tin Can Alley, Inflation Blues and Album Album, underscoring the excitement of invention and possibility one can hear in this era of DeJohnette’s career. The recordings reveal him as an artist in touch with tradition even as he sought the cutting edge of the day, paying homage to his jazz heroes yet experimenting with new sounds. There are echoes of old New Orleans grooves and Swing-era big bands in this collection, as well as material crafted with the techniques of ’80s pop singles; there are ambitious suite-like compositions, and there is spontaneously lowdown rhythm & blues.Recorded 1979-1984 and remastered from original tapes for ECM’s Old & New Masters series.
Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition Box (ECM 2296-99)(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2200/2296_99.php)Special Edition – a band with revolving membership and an incredible cast of soloists including David Murray, Arthur Blythe and Chico Freeman – was one of the most sophisticated vehicles for Jack DeJohnette’s all-around talents. This set brings together the albums Special Edition, Tin Can Alley, Inflation Blues and Album Album, underscoring the excitement of invention and possibility one can hear in this era of DeJohnette’s career. The recordings reveal him as an artist in touch with tradition even as he sought the cutting edge of the day, paying homage to his jazz heroes yet experimenting with new sounds. There are echoes of old New Orleans grooves and Swing-era big bands in this collection, as well as material crafted with the techniques of ’80s pop singles; there are ambitious suite-like compositions, and there is spontaneously lowdown rhythm & blues.Recorded 1979-1984 and remastered from original tapes for ECM’s Old & New Masters series.
Dino Saluzzi & Anja Lechner: El Encuentro - A film by Norbert Wiedmer & Enrique Ros (ECM 5051)(http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM_Cinema/5051.php)“El Encuentro” follows bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner to locations in Argentina, Germany, Armenia, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. “Your perception of music and your way of playing music change when you travel,” says Anja Lechner. The camera joins the journey and underlines the point, illuminating the processes of music making in very different contexts.They come from backgrounds that could hardly be more diverse – Saluzzi from South American tango and folk traditions and Lechner from the world of European classical music, but have worked closely together since the mid-1990s, beginning with the Kultrum (ECM 1251) alliance between Saluzzi and the Rosamunde Quartett.“El Encuentro” offers insights into the life of these travelling musicians seen here in concert, in rehearsal sessions, at recording studios, and in informal settings, variously joined by a cast that includes composer Tigran Mansurian, arranger Levon Eskenian, pianist George Gruntz, and Saluzzi’s brother, saxophonist/clarinetist Felix Saluzzi.The journey culminates in a concert of Saluzzi’s music with the Metropole Orchestra in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebow. A musician who has created a unique personal idiom, “I compose with hopes and memories”, says Dino Saluzzi, as he shapes a forward-looking personal idiom, coloured by remembrances of things past.
Please click here to see the trailer of El Encuentro.