Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday with Places an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded in December 1977 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features pianist John Taylor, guitarist Bill Connors, and drummer Jack DeJohnette.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Places brings together another congregation of musicians that could only come from ECM. Drummer Jack DeJohnette lassoes his scurrying loops to the acoustic hooks of guitarist Bill Connors, while John Taylor supplements most of the cargo with organ. At the helm of this vessel is Jan Garbarek, whose saxophonism starts high and goes only higher. With cumulative notecraft and a heartfelt commitment to atmosphere, he and Taylor unwrap a lush nexus in the stunning opener...

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/02/11/places/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVeLHgmsuQ&list=OLAK5uy_let94Zlz4hgrqPEmCiFpttUOsii_Evt9M

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Love, Love is an album by American jazz trombonist and composer Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto recorded in two sessions on June 28 and September 13, 1973 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

With a title like Love, Love, Julian Priester’s ECM debut could be nothing but a warm embrace, an abstract melodrama lifted from the pages of an epic story. Hot on the heels of Bennie Maupin’s The Jewel in the Lotus, this album gives us more than we might expect and electrifies like a Mwandishi joint sans Herbie Hancock. Between the groovy “Prologue” and brass-laden “Epilogue” lie three interconnected pieces in two 20-minute suites, each a head-nodding peregrination couched in the vibrant expanse that only an ensemble of this size can maintain...

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/11/07/love-love/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoB6vNE9CnQ&list=RDPoB6vNE9CnQ&start_radio=1

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