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Gitarristen John Scofield och basisten Dave Holland, två av jazzens samtida mästare, har genom åren spelat tillsammans i sammanhang som projekt med Herbie Hancock och Joe Henderson samt i ett livfullt gemensamt band lett av Joe Lovano och Al Foster. Memories of Home är deras första duoalbum.

Det finns en sällsynt akustisk alkemi i Time is a Blind Guide. Förändringar i besättningen har lett och format den musikaliska karaktären i den norske trumslagaren Thomas Strønens ensemble, och på gruppens tredje inspelning upplever vi återigen ett litet skifte i sättningen, där Leo Svensson Sander ersätter Lucy Railton på cello.

ECM is particularly pleased to present this two-disc set by one of the most outstanding groups of its era, the group often referred to as 'Belonging' or Keith Jarrett's 'European Quartet', heard here in a previously unreleased concert recording from 1979. After more than three decades in the archive, this "sleeper" now awakes, sounding thoroughly alive and of the moment. <br/><br/>"Sleeper" is a significant addition to the group's small discography, until now comprised of the albums "Belonging" (1974), "My Song" (recorded 1977, released 1978), "Nude Ants" (recorded 1979), and "Personal Mountains" (1979, released 1989). The pieces performed by the quartet on April 16, 1979, at Tokyo's Nakano Sun Plaza were Jarrett compositions - "Personal Mountains", "Innocence", "So Tender", "Oasis", "Chant of the Soil", "Prism" and "New Dance" - all written for this ensemble (in later years, "Prism" and "So Tender" would be reinterpreted by the "Standards" trio), all delivered with enormous verve. This was a group that could play very freely, and joyously, inside the melodic and rhythmic structures set up or implied by Keith Jarrett's writing, with an extraordinary and unforced sense of flow. As Jarrett said at the time: "I myself, as a so-called leader, wish very, very often to blend with the other three musicians and that situation [the Belonging band] allows that, because no one is fighting with anyone else. Everyone is just trying to make the thing transparent and clear and feeling good."

Jarrett Keith: At The Deer Head Inn [CD]

Trio-debuten för pianisten och tonsättaren Craig Taborn, tillsammans med Tomeka Reid och Ches Smith, har varit efterlängtad. I sin recension av gruppens livespelning hösten 2025 fann den tyska dagstidningen Hamburger Abendblatt inget annat än lovord och kallade framförandet "oförutsägbart, hänförande". Trions angreppssätt på Dream Archives är fyllt av komplexitet och, som titeln antyder, täcks ett brett musikaliskt spektrum som omformas till en tidigare ohörd ljudvärld full av drömlika stämningar.

Hersch Fred: The Surrounding Green [CD]

After the eruptive excitement of their Live At Belleville album, which was widely praised around the world (and secured for leader Arild Andersen the Prix du Musicien Européen 2008 from the Academie du Jazz in France), the trio now delivers a studio album. In Oslo's Rainbow, bassist Andersen, tenorist Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia rechanneled their music's energies into a programme of soulful ballads and mid-tempo free-floating sound explorations. The pairing of Anderson's muscular bass and Smith's vaulting tenor is exceptionally compelling (as the recent "Celebration" album also confirmed). Most of the tunes on "Mira" are from Arild's pen, though his cohorts also contribute material, and there is an unexpected interpretation of Burt Bacharach's "Alfie", beautifully played by Tommy Smith here.