2014

Spjärnsvallet var en mycket betydelsefull instrumentalgrupp i mitten av 70-talet. Den blev en brytpunkt bland annat för de tidiga världsmusikinfluenserna (såväl Berger som Bothén hade spelat mycket med Don Cherry och både undervisat Don och lärt av honom efter sina långa musikstudier i Indien, Marocko, Ghana och Mali. Christer Bothéns personliga etniskt färgade kompositioner framstår som höjdpunkter från den tiden och ter sig efter närmare 40 år, i likhet med gruppens förhållande till låtar och improvisation som vore de nyutsprungna. Ännu ett tillfälle att höra bortgångna multiinstrumentalistgeniet Kjell Westling är ytterligare ett skäl till att återutge denna sedan länge utgångna pärla, i synnerhet som cd-formatet gör att delar av inspelningarna som inte rymdes inom LP-formatet nu kan finnas med i sin helhet.

Tre original album på två CD:<br/>"Dregs of the earth", "Unsung heroes" och "Industry standards".

Innehåller Evans första 12 album 1956 - 1962, från debutskivan med den ursprungliga versionen av hans "Waltz for Debby" - fram till hans nyskapande Empathy album 1962, Generellt anses detta i jazzkretsar som den period då Evans var som bäst.

På sitt andra album på OKeh Records väljer Bill Frisell att blicka tillbaka på 50- och 60-talets gitarrpop/rock som gjordes av band och artister som The Ventures, Link Wray, Duane Eddy och våra egna The Spotnicks.

The Keith Jarrett Trio, playing live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg in July 1972. The trio with Haden and Motian was Jarrett's first great band, his choice of players a masterstroke. Charlie and Paul hadn't worked together until Jarrett brought them into each other's orbit in 1966. With the bassist who had learned his craft in Ornette Coleman's band, and the drummer from Bill Evans's ground-breaking trio, Jarrett was able to explore the broadest scope of modern jazz, from poetic balladry to hard-swinging time-playing to ferocious and fiery free music. <br/><br/>The improvisation heard in the Hamburg concert includes episodes with Keith on soprano sax and flute as well as piano, while Motian expands the role of percussion in the music, developing the supple, elastic, supremely unpredictable vocabulary that would subsequently become such a crucial part of both Jarrett's groups and Paul's own. The interaction between the three musicians is uncanny throughout, reaching a peak in an emotion-drenched performance of Charlie Haden's "Song for Che" (this is Jarrett's only recording of a piece that has become a new jazz classic). But from the first notes of "Rainbow", with its radiant piano, it is clear that something special is happening here.The German radio concert from which this album is drawn was part of a tour - the first European tour for this trio - organised by ECM. <br/><br/>Manfred Eicher returned to the original analog sources, remixing the music recorded by NDR engineer Hans-Henirich Breitkreuz for this edition in Oslo in July 2014, together with Jan Erik Kongshaug. (As it happened, the work took place the day after Charlie Haden's death.)Haden's importance in this music can hardly be overstated. He is such a strong, centering presence. Jarrett plus Haden was always a special combination, of course, as recordings from Arbour Zena to Last Dance have eloquently shown, but for dynamic interplay between pianist and bassist the Hamburg recording is hard to beat. <br/><br/>Charlie highly valued this musical association, and the way in which Jarrett would compose tunes for the strengths of the trio members: "I think some of the greatest music made in that time period came out of that group," Charlie told Ethan Iverson a few years ago. "Keith was always his own person, with original ideas as a leader. He wrote specifically for us. I loved it. He showed up at every rehearsal and sound-check with new music. It's amazing when you go over a new tune at a sound-check and can't wait to play it that night, since it already felt like 'you'."The Hamburg concert dates from the beginning of ECM's association with Keith Jarrett, whose solo album Facing You had been recorded the previous November and released just three months before this show. <br/><br/>In the US, Keith Jarrett had begun to include saxophonist Dewey Redman in his group music and the trio was in the process of morphing into the group colloquially known as Jarrett's American Quartet. Several of the Jarrett tunes heard here, amongst them "Everything That Lives Laments" and "Piece for Ornette", would also find expression in the quartet repertoire. Much inspired quartet music was ahead, including the landmark albums The Survivors' Suite and Eyes of the Heart. But Hamburg '72 captures the core trio of Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian at the very apex of its creativity.The trio's earlier albums were Life Between The Exit Signs (recorded 1967), Somewhere Before (1968) and The Mourning of a Star (1971).

With his album "Momento Magico", Ulf Wakenius remembers of old compaignons, friends and people he got influenced by, like Oscar Peterson, Magnus Öström and Youn Sun Nah. On discovering the natural sound of his guitar he revives long ago times and creates a new magic at the same time, which reaches the listeners mind.

Han är snart 72 år... Han har knappt varit vassare! Med sitt band - 4th Dimension; Gary Husband, Etienne Mbappe & Ranjit Barot tar han sin musik in ett ett landskap - en värld -<br/>som ingen annan kan. Att han spelar gitarr som ingen annan vet vi, och här med ett band utöver alt nu levande, bjuder han upp till en rockfusionsfest. Inleder med en av hans största nyare låtar för att avsluta med den klassiska You know you know, som han spelade in första gången 1971 för Inner mountain flame.<br/><br/>Digipack.