Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Out of the Woods a studio album by the American jazz group Oregon, released in April 1978...

The Bay State Banner wrote that "Oregon's acoustic beauty and mastery of such difficult reed instruments as the English horn and the oboe are impressive, as are the harmonic abilities of guitarist Ralph Towner."

DownBeat reviewer Douglas Clark wrote, "The writing here is rich and varied, never cliched. The ensemble playing is extraordinarily cohesive, like a virtuoso string quartet. Each individual plays his instruments with imagination and solid technique. There is not a weak cut on this entire album... It is in every way a work of art" - Wikipedia

"Once you take a stroll in these WOODS, you'll want to lose yourself in them." from an Allmusic review

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdw8sS7oEJJ2G5M5WcSHpCv4XKnys93-y

#Oregon #RalphTowner #ColinWalcott #GlenMoore #Jazz #PaulMcCandless #Music

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Friends by Oregon, released on Vanguard in 1977.

Oregon open the door for a few friends to appear on the album – and in doing so, they also open themselves up as well – in a shifting set of tracks that sometimes features different groupings of the core musicians! The guests here are Bennie Wallace on tenor, Larry Karush on piano, and David Earl Johnson on congas and timbales – and the tracks move from longer to shorter, quintet to duo performances – all showing different aspects of the guitars of Ralph Towner, reeds of Paul McCandless, bass of Glen Moore, and sitar and percussion of Colin Walcott. Karush and Moore duet on piano on the beautiful "Love Over Time", Wallace and Walcott mix sitar and tenor on "First Thing In The Morning" - Dusty Groove

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-eHA2JwsJ2NztvzfRLfH8oiCZHFf3FEQ

#Oregon #RalphTowner #PaulMcCandless #GlenMoore #ColinWalcott #BennieWallace #LarryKarush #Jazz #Music #Sitar #DavidEarlJohnson #Vanguard

Ended the rainy weekend and welcomed the blues skies of Monday with Codona released on ECM in 1979.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"From the opening gong, this album enchants with its dramaturgy, in which time and space are one and the same. Against clicks and whistles, a subterranean sitar appears. In it, we hear the grumbling of voices. Cherry fills the vast emptiness with his sung trumpeting, so that the emptiness can only weep in return. Walcott's sitar is respectfully articulated, ever so subtle in its reverberant twang, providing a gelatinous backbone, such as it is, for Cherry's more immediate interpretations. From this, we get the tinny call of a clay drum and a flute hooked into every loophole, pulled to expose a more regular core....."

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/05/16/the-codona-trilogy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xteMak5ak68&list=PLJRQ_KP8fxRUDvUrlkQXrsnSARLS2khxB&index=1

#Codona #ColinWalcott #ECMReviews #DonCherry #NanaVasconcelos #ECM #Jazz #Ambient #Music #WorldMusic

Slipped into sleep and then welcomed Friday with Cycles the second album by cellist David Darling, recorded in 1981 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"Cellist David Darling has had a long, if sporadic, association with ECM, quietly forging—either under the guise of solo artist or buried in an album’s roster—some of the label’s most lyrical atmospheres. With Cycles, however, Darling magnified his sound-world through the inimitable talents of Jan Garbarek and Collin Walcott in a space both selfless and uniquely his own. Add to that the astonishing pianism of Steve Kuhn and the depth of Arild Andersen on bass, and you get what is, to this listener at least, one of ECM’s finest celestial alignments..."

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/11/08/cycles/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zxDklTW7w&list=OLAK5uy_mjRP-ePBAhwulXvQb-aV4_Ul88VYDkQqM

#daviddarling #cello #ecm #ecmreviews #jangarbarek #colinwalcott #stevekuhn #arildanderson #1982inmusic

Slipped into sleep last night and welcomed Friday with Dawn Dance an album by South African guitarist Steve Eliovson and American percussionist Collin Walcott, recorded in January 1981 and released on ECM later that year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"This album is something of a legend in the annals of ECM lore, as it was the only ever recorded by the fantastically talented Steve Eliovson. With Collin Walcott on percussion for support, the since unheard-from guitarist carves lasting impressions ...The experience begins in “Venice” (as in California), where the guitar speaks with tabla like two continents connected by tectonic plates beneath an ocean. Eliovson’s sonorities are pristine, especially in “Earth End” and in “Slow Jazz,” where the precision of finger placement and the occasional bent note add a soulful turn of phrase...."

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/10/16/dawn-dance/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2NT3003Ow&list=OLAK5uy_k_ltMu6RGWPuIuAnYjnr9zggpU3SHm4c4

#steveEliovson #colinwalcott #ecm #ecmreviews #acousticguitar

Grazing Dreams is the second album by American sitarist and composer Collin Walcott, recorded in February 1977 and released on ECM later that year. Walcott's quintet features trumpeter Don Cherry and rhythm section John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson, and Dom Um Romão.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"A plaintive, leisurely journey from Collin Walcott, North American pioneer in the art of the jazz sitar and ECM visionary whose life ended all too soon at the age 39...

...Grazing Dreams is structured as long-form whole in which individual tracks blend into the overarching power that binds them. “Song Of The Morrow” starts things off right with flirtatious sitar riffs appearing and disappearing against a reverberant wash of guitar and trumpet while subtle and varied percussion sections sneak past in the background."

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/02/14/grazing-dreams/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aZEf6JXxjk&list=OLAK5uy_lGhOnBkbO6VzW8cC_UAnDxFmox_5YK9x0

#colinwalcott #ecm #ecmreviews #doncherry #johnabercrombie #PalleDanielsson #domumromao

Oregon - "Oregon" (1983)

#NowPlaying #ECMRecords #ColinWalcott #RalphTowner #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/iMVVY9Rn6eM