Review by John L. Walters EFG London Jazz Festival Cadogan Hall, London 20-11-2016 Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra was a product of the cultural moment outlined in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s current exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution?… Read More ›
There’s wall-to-wall jazz this week down at the EFG London Jazz Festival. Whether or not you can get to any events is down to the busyness of your diary and your proximity to The Big Quince. But there’s no excuse for… Read More ›
(Impulse!) Charlie Haden, the legendary double bass player who had been a member of Ornette Coleman’s game-changing free jazz group back in the 1960s and went on to making a vast range of music over a long and fruitful career… Read More ›
We’re getting close now… The second best 10 of the 50 CDs I have most enjoyed listening to in 2014, in ascending order. The top 10 tomorrow: 20 Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder Spark Of Life (ECM 379 2957) Full review here 19 Keith Jarrett,… Read More ›
The next 10 of the 50 CDs I have most enjoyed listening to in 2014, in ascending order. Numbers 20-11 tomorrow: 30 Michael Wollny Trio Weltentraum (ACT 9563-2) Full review here 29 Mark Turner Quartet Lathe Of Heaven (ECM 378 0663) Full review… Read More ›
The next 10 of the 50 CDs I have most enjoyed listening to in 2014, in ascending order. Another 10 tomorrow: 40 Jean Toussaint 4 Tate Song (Lyte Records LR022) Full review here 39 Chick Corea Trio Trilogy (Stretch Records/Concord Jazz CJA3568502) Full review… Read More ›
(ECM 470 4256) Want to hear Keith Jarrett playing a bit of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez on soprano saxophone? Well, it’s only a line from it really, and it might just be coincidental, as Jarrett joins in on Charlie Haden’s… Read More ›
(Impulse!/Decca) Some of my favourite Charlie Haden albums are duos – whether with Hank Jones, Pat Metheny or Keith Jarrett, the bassist seems to make the most of the space offered without ever getting more fancy or less concise than… Read More ›
ECM has now issued this longer statement following the death of the great bass player: Charlie Haden, one of the great bass players of jazz history, died on July 11 at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness…. Read More ›
(ECM 378 0524 – also available as a 2LP vinyl set 378 2250 from 30 June) Sit down and relax while the pianist and bassist wander through a programme of jazz standards, taking delight and sharing their thoughts on My… Read More ›
The festive period has allowed me some quiet time with a few ECM albums that had escaped my attention in the last few months of 2012. Here they are: Eivind Aarset Dream Logic (ECM 371 3657): Jan Bang, master manipulator… Read More ›
Live At Birdland (ECM 273 6987) When I once had the opportunity to discuss the two trio discs alto saxophonist Lee Konitz had made for Blue Note in 1997 with fellow oldie Charlie Haden on bass and young upstart Brad… Read More ›
Sophisticated Ladies (Emarcy 0602527508160) The veteran bassist is a long way from his avant-garde days in Ornette Coleman’s band in his now long-standing West Coast quartet which blends nostalgia with very classy jazz. For this latest disc guest singers Melody… Read More ›
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM 273 3485) I first listened to this disc at four o’ clock one morning, while suffering from a bout of insomnia. Quiet, gentle and almost meditational at times, the music nevertheless didn’t send me off… Read More ›
Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch 7559-79847-3) Pat Metheny is one of the most extraordinary musicians of our age, irrespective of genre. And genre is not something that has concerned him much. The jazz purists may love his work with, for example,… Read More ›
Keith Jarrett: Treasure Island (Impulse! 0602517967182) Keith is looking cool with his Afro, giant belt buckle and denim bells on the cover, and the music still sounds cool, too, re-released by Verve under the Impulse! Originals imprint. This is Jarrett,… Read More ›
So, now we know some of what’s in Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in June. And there is a fair amount of jazz in there, with some excellent crossovers and exciting sounding reworkings of Coleman classics by the… Read More ›
