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Holliger Heinz: Lunea [2 CD]

Crispell Marilyn: Nothing Ever Was Anyway [2 CD]

Trumpetaren<b> Avishai Cohens</b> nya album från ECM, med innovativ improvisationsmusik skapad i stunden, är The Guardians Jazz Album of the Month! <i>"Listeners all the way from Miles Davis' muted-trumpet soliloquies on 1960's 'Sketches of Spain' to Tord Gustavsen's meticulous 21st-century ensemble jazz will find plenty they recognise - and more besides - in Cohen's quietest but maybe boldest adventure."</i>

Goebbels Heiner: A House Of Call [2 CD]

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."

Micus Stephan: Winter's End [CD]

Pianisten Anna Gouari är solist i konserter av Alfred Schnittke och Paul Hindemith. Albumet innehåller dessutom en kraftfull tolkning av Hindemiths symfoni "Mathis der Maler", av Lugano-baserade Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana, under ledning av Markus Poschner.