Ended the week and welcomed the long weekend with Dream Logic an album by Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset released on ECM in 2012.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Eivind Aarset, without whom Nils Petter Molvær’s breakthrough Khmer might never have reached its full potential, gets an ECM space of his own at last. As much a child of the label as he is of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis, the Norwegian guitarist brings attunement to every touch of the strings. Into the synchronicity of technique and vision he has sculpted since his early teens, Aarset has absorbed inspiration from a variety of musicians, including Bill Laswell, Marilyn Mazur, and, above all, Jon Hassell. That said collaborators are all masters at creating dream logics of their own is no coincidence, for he too is the student of another time-space continuum...

https://ecmreviews.com/2012/10/28/dream-logic/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSmeTd5q_I&list=OLAK5uy_kHoFq6ts--GPNH0x0sUWxnlQeEoq2-MBg

#ElvindAarset #JanBang #ECM #ECMReviews #Jazz #Music

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Dis an album by Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded for ECM in December 1976..

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Debates over the “ECM sound” continue, though thankfully with waning fervor, in attempts to define that which never needed definition in the first place. Meanwhile, critical pundits are missing out on some spectacular music that would easily silence their concern over arbitrary categories. On Dis, his eighth album for the label, Jan Garbarek slipped off his extroverted garments and into a deep look inward. One immediately notices the windharp...The windharp anchors the album into place, appearing at its center and outer edges..

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/12/17/dis/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQuxNak_tA&list=OLAK5uy_nplpeyXeDiEss0-wudhiAyoCEZ3udGAiQ

#JanGarbarek #RalphTowner #Jazz #ECM #ECMReviews #Windharp #Music

Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk in the spring sun with Eon is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Richard Beirach recorded in November 1974 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features rhythm section Frank Tusa and Jeff Williams.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Eon was the first album under the New York-born Richard Beirach’s name, and arguably still his best. Its balance of rhythm, melody, and reflection epitomizes the piano trio format, and nowhere more so than “Nardis” (Davis/Evans), the 14-minute epic that opens this set of six progressively far-reaching tunes. ECM listeners may recognize its lovely vamp as performed by Ralph Towner on his unparalleled Solo Concert of 1979. Here, it glows under a full and vibrant touch...

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/11/20/eon/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leO00lr_bRQ&list=RDleO00lr_bRQ&start_radio=1

#RichardBeirach #FrankTulsa #JeffWilliams #Jazz #JazzPianoTrio #ECM #ECMReviews #Music

After The Last Sky = بعد السماء الأخيرة by Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland , released on ECM in 2025.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

After The Last Sky marks the return of oud virtuoso and composer Anouar Brahem to ECM, eight years after Blue Maqams. That groundbreaking album also featured pianist Django Bates and bassist Dave Holland, both of whom are retained here, along with a new addition in cellist Anja Lechner. The result is a culmination of culminations, blending Brahem’s evolving integrations of jazz, European classical music, and, of course, the modal Arabic maqams at their core. Gaza was firmly on his mind leading up to and during the recording, and the titles reflect this awareness in a contemplative way...

https://ecmreviews.com/2025/07/27/anouar-brahem-after-the-last-sky-ecm-2838/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnmsOLbO90&list=OLAK5uy_lGzzN8gxHBG9UVgkUQfHoo6vW7zsG40ZQ&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_2W8CEMgk

#AnouarBrahem #AnjaLechner #DjangoBates #DaveHolland #Oud #ECM #ECMReviews #Jazz #ThirdStream #Maqam #Music #ArabicMusic

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Lontano by Anja Lechner / François Couturier, released on ECM in 2020.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"On Lontano, the cello of Anja Lechner and the piano of François Couturier play the roles of scenery and camera. As the lens bends the light into a discernible image yet changes that image in the process of fixing it within a frame, Couturier funnels Lechner’s sunbeams laden with stories that can only be heard with the eyes (and vice versa). If such a description seems too cerebral or even bogus, it’s only because the music it seeks to capture doesn’t accompany it...

If the “Praeludium” tells us anything, it’s that awakening in this scenario can only take place when there is both sun and dew. Otherwise, the dawn might have nothing to kiss as it peers over the not-so-distant mountaintops."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzH-IirTlWg&list=OLAK5uy_nM46CBBtIzhmVrlrGlNHHQVLaHC5MvGkE

#AnjaLechner #FrancoisCouturier #ECMReviews #ECM #Music #Cello #Improvisation #Jazz #TyranGrillo

Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Albores by Dino Saluzzi, released on ECM in 2020.

Tyran Grillo wrote on ECM Reviews:

"Whereas many of us who once painted with fingers as a child moved on to brushes, Dino Saluzzi seems to have ignored that transition. On Albores, an album born of reckoning, Saluzzi renders what Luján Baudino in his liner note calls an “inner landscape.”

“Adiós Maestro Kancheli” opens on a somber note by paying respects to the late Georgian composer, who passed away in 2019. And yet, what we are given is more than a tribute or homage; rather, it is an identity without personhood, a force that animates the spirit of bygone days. Such redemptions of memory are as integral to Saluzzi’s language as sunlight and rain are to crops. .."

https://ecmreviews.com/2022/07/02/dino-saluzzi-albores-ecm-2638/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQoslQ2YnE&list=RDJPQoslQ2YnE&start_radio=1

#DinoSaluzzi #Music #ECM #ECMReviews #bandoneón #accordion #Argentina #Jazz

Ended Saturday and welcomed Sunday with Movements in Colour an album by British jazz saxophonist and composer Andy Sheppard recorded in February 2008 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillow rote for ECM Reviews:

British saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s ECM debut is a phenomenon in sound. A musician of remarkable integrity, Sheppard takes full advantage of the opportunity to broaden his reach farther than ever before. For this project, he indulges in his Indian, African, and Latin affinities, as reflected in the eclectic lineup that shapes this set into something greater than the sum of its parts...

https://ecmreviews.com/2014/01/27/movements-in-colour/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gnCs_DYBD0&list=OLAK5uy_lFXeiJRmS4mwnpGYybD5FO64FSgJjTXY0

#AndySheppard #JohnParricelli #EivindAarset #ArildAndersen #ECM #ECMReviews #Jazz #Music #KuljitBhamra #TyranGrillo

Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday after my swim with Ruta and Daitya a jazz album by pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded in May 1971 and released on ECM Records in 1973—one of Jarrett's rare performances on electric keyboard.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, who continue their formidable partnership to this day, join forces for an early and unique collaboration. This being the tail end of Jarrett’s electric period with Miles Davis, Ruta and Daitya marks an archivally important transition into his imminent acoustic pilgrimages. “Overture Communion” captures our attention from the start with a funky, wah-wahed electric piano, warmly guiding us into the album’s exciting, yet somehow always plaintive world...

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/11/03/ruta-and-daitya/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SEnUqxndcU&list=OLAK5uy_mfO46jL7PXcFWgmhCaXHtWMpQTX-OH4RQ

#KeithJarrett #JackDeJohnette #ECM #ECMReviews #Jazz #Music #ElectricPiano #Flute

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday with Eon an album by American jazz pianist and composer Richard Beirach recorded in November 1974 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features rhythm section Frank Tusa and Jeff Williams.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Eon was the first album under the New York-born Richard Beirach’s name, and arguably still his best. Its balance of rhythm, melody, and reflection epitomizes the piano trio format, and nowhere more so than “Nardis” .., the 14-minute epic that opens this set of six progressively far-reaching tunes...Here, it glows under a full and vibrant touch. Beirach keeps his fingers busily engaged, while allowing his rhythm section some glorious airtime, winding down like a rock band extending power chords, only here in a more intimate space in which that prolonging becomes not a dramatic farewell but the acceptance of a new beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leO00lr_bRQ&list=RDleO00lr_bRQ&start_radio=1

#RichieBeirach #Jazz #ECM #ECMReviews #JazzPianoTrio #Music