RIP Bengt Berger, Swedish musician and ethnomusicologist. Berger formed the group Bitter Funeral Beer Band after his trip and studies of African music in Ghana in the 1970s. The album is a five part suite that was based on the life and death, and spiritual resurrection of life in Ghana.
Don Cherry is on board. Berger and Cherry go a long way back to the early 1960s when Cherry visited Sweden. Bengt Berger: "I had been to India and had studied tabla, which he got very interested in, so we got to playing a lot, and I stayed for a long time at his house in Sweden and going on European tours with him as well."

Here is a great live performance of the piece from 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALp9N_lS_b8

#ecmrecords #bengtberger #doncherry

#GaryBurton #vibráfono #vibraphone #marimba

#GaryBurtonQuintet
#SteveSwallow #bajoeléctrico #electricbass
#MakotoOzone #piano
#TommySmith #saxo #sax
#MartinRichards #batería #drums

#WhizKids
#ECMRecords #ECM #EditionOfContemporaryMusic 1987

Belleza de tiempos más felices.

Beauty from happier times.

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#Música #Music #Jazz

Recensie: Elina Duni & Rob Luft – Reaching For The Moon (EN) ★★★★★
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/elina-duni-rob-luft-reaching-for-the-moon-en/

#Music #Jazz #ElinaDuni&RobLuft #ECMRecords #OuthereMusic

Steve Eliovson w/ Collin Walcott - "Dawn Dance" (1981)

https://tidal.com/album/13369953/u

#NowPlaying #SteveEliovsen #CollinWalcott #ECMRecords #ECM #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

Recensie: Elina Duni & Rob Luft – Reaching For The Moon ★★★★★
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/elina-duni-rob-luft-reaching-for-the-moon/

#Music #Jazz #ElinaDuni&RobLuft #ECMRecords #OuthereMusic

Recensie: Craig Taborn – Dream Archives ★★★★
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/craig-taborn-dream-archives/

#Music #Jazz #CraigTaborn #ECMRecords #OuthereMusic

El bello universo al que uno amó, y donde uno creció rodeado de música maravillosa, se va apagando lentamente.
Adiós Richie.

The beautiful universe one loved, and where one grew up surrounded by wonderful music, is slowly fading away.
Goodbye Richie.

https://ecmrecords.com/richie-beirach-1947-2026/

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📷 #RobertoMasotti

Nachruf auf Ralph Towner: Ein stiller Star des Jazz

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/musik-und-buehne/konzert/stiller-star-nachruf-auf-den-gitarristen-ralph-towner-110821736.html

#RalphTowner #jazz #ecmrecords