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CARLA BLEY BIG BAND
Appearing Nightly

Cat No. 172 551 6

JOHN SURMAN / HOWARD MOODY
Rain On The Window

Cat No. 171 554 0

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Track Listing:
(1) Greasy Gravy 8.52 (2) Awful Coffee 6.11 (3) Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid 25.23 (4) Someone To Watch 5.56 (5) I Hadn’t Anyone ‘Till You 7.38


Personnel:
Earl Gardner, Lew Soloff, Giampaolo Casati, Florian Esch: trumpets; Beppe Calamosca, Gary Valente, Gigi Grata, Richard Henry: trombones; Roger Jannotta: soprano and alto saxophones, flute; Wolfgang Puschnig: alto saxophone, flute; Andy Sheppard: tenor saxophone; Christophe Panzani: tenor saxophone; Julian Arguelles: baritone saxophone; Carla Bley: piano, conductor; Karen Mantler: organ; Steve Swallow: bass; Billy Drummond: drums

“It is intentionally rough-edged and headlong music...a consistent delight.”
John Fordham - The Guardian

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(1) Circum #1 3.58 (2) Stained Glass 3.49 (3) The Old Dutch 3.30 (4) Dancing In The Loft 1.53 (5) Step Lively! 3.06 (6) Stone Ground 4.19 (7) Tierce 2.59 (8) Circum #2 2.03 (9) Rain On The Window 4.06 (10) Dark Reeds 2.50 (11) O Waly Waly 2.43 (12) A Spring Wedding 3.07 (13) I'm Troubled In Mind 2.47 (14) On The Go 3.59 (15) Pax Vobiscum 4.12

Personnel:
John Surman: baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet; Howard Moody: organ

A very special project by John Surman, one of ECM’s most admired musicians: an album of intimate duets that moves the music forward while also speaking of roots. Rain on the Window, recorded in Oslo where John Surman now lives, continues the saxophonist’s unique artistic path on ECM, with Howard Moody as new musical partner.

Moody conducted Surman’s Mercury Prize-nominated Proverbs and Songs (537 7992) and in live concerts played the organ when John Taylor was unavailable. His cv ranges from the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner to pop sessions with Marianne Faithfull and Marc Almond, writing a musical with poet Ian McMillan and a Requiem with flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, and orchestrating Surman’s Road to St Ives. In much of his work he chips away at the artificial barriers separating styles and audiences - making him a natural partner for Surman.

The music is a mixture of original compositions, improvisations and traditional folk songs. Melody and lyricism – hallmarks of all Surman’s work – are celebrated in each of the featured pieces. “A Spring Wedding” was written to celebrate the wedding of John’s son Ben Surman and Minya DeJohnette, daughter of Jack DeJohnette, in 2004; “Dancing in the Loft” and “Dark Reeds” are free improvisations; “O Waly Waly” is a folk song originally collected by Cecil Sharp in Somerset; “I'm Troubled in Mind” first appeared in a collection of Negro Spirituals in 1872.

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BOBO STENSON TRIO
cantando

Cat No. 177 546 2

CHARLES LLOYD
Rabo De Nube

Cat No. 175 481 1

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(1) Olivia 6.38 (2) Song Of Ruth 6.42 (3) Wooden Church 7.01 (4) M 7.59 (5) Chiquilin de Bachin 8.04 (6) Pages 13.40 (7) Don's Corapiece 5.08 (8) A Fixed Goal 4.12 (9) Love I’ve Found You 3.12 (10) Liebesode 8.36 (11) Song Of Ruth 6.47

Personnel:
Bobo Stenson: piano; Anders Jormin: double-bass; Jan Fält: drums

Cantando means singing in Spanish and Italian, and on this album the trio ‘sings’ its way through a wide variety of material including “Love, I’ve Found You”, the jazz standard much loved by Miles Davis; “Chiquillin de Bachin”, a graceful Astor Piazzolla tango; “Liebesode” from the song cycle Sieben frühe Lieder written by Alban Berg in 1907; “Don’s Kora Song”, a tune by Don Cherry based on a West African folk melody; “A Fixed Goal”, a little known Ornette Coleman composition; pieces by Anders Jormin “Wooden Church” and “M”; “Song of Ruth” by Czech composer Petr Eben, who died a few weeks before the recording session; “Olivia” by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez, writer of beautiful melodies, love songs, protest songs; and “Pages”, a collective improvisation by the Trio.
Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson (born 1944) came to ECM in 1971, recording with Jan Garbarek on Sart and on his own trio album, Underwear. The immensely popular Garbarek-Stenson group of the mid-70s (Witchi-Tai-To, Dansere) was formed when the saxophonist joined Stenson’s trio. Stenson has been an important contributor to the music of other players on ECM. Closely associated with Don Cherry, he played on the trumpeter’s final disc, Dona Nostra (1993). He was for several years Charles Lloyd’s pianist, also introducing bassist Anders Jormin to the Lloyd group. Pianist and bassist also worked extensively with Tomasz Stanko in the 1990s. The trio with Anders Jormin (and originally Jon Christensen on drums) was introduced in 1993, with the prize-winning album Reflections. It was followed by War Orphans and by the acclaimed 1999 double album Serenity. Paul Motian was the drummer for the acclaimed Goodbye album. Following its release, Stenson won the European Jazz Prize as Musician of the Year in 2006. For the last three years the drummer has been young Swedish player Jon Fält. With a background in experimental and ambient music as well as jazz improvising, Fält brings new sound colours and energies to their work.

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(1) Prometheus 14.43 (2) Migration of Spirit 10.15 (3) Booker’s Garden 14.33 (4) Ramanujan 11.38 (5) La Colline de Monk 4.01 (6) Sweet Georgia Bright 12.17 (7) Rabo de Nube 7.36

Personnel:
Charles Lloyd: tenor saxophone, alto flute, tarogato; Jason Moran: piano; Reuben Rogers: double-bass; Eric Harland: drums

Charles Lloyd made jazz history repeatedly in the 60s, as artistic director of the Chico Hamilton group, as tenorist with Cannonball Adderley’s band, and then as leader of his own band – which introduced Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette to the world. ECM was partly responsible for Lloyd’s renaissance in the late 1980s:Fish out of Water (1989) was followed by Notes from Big Sur, The Call, All My Relations, Canto, Voice in the Night ,The Water is Wide, Hyperion with Higgins, Which Way is East, Jumping the Creek, and the acclaimed Sangam (987 5183). Lloyd is now regarded as one of the exceptional saxophone voices, his sound steeped in the deep roots of jazz and blues and also attuned to the musical possibilities of the wider world.
The classic sax/piano/bass/drums format has provided a context for some of Lloyd’s finest music. He has worked with outstanding pianists in his long career: Keith Jarrett, Bobo Stenson, Geri Allen, Michel Pertrucciani etc. In the new quartet it’s Jason Moran, whose percussive attack lights fires. Originally influenced by Thelonious Monk and taught by Andrew Hill, he brings strong rhythmic feeling and deep musical insight to the quartet. Moran already has a history with drummer Eric Harland, intensifying the rhythmic interaction that lifts Lloyd skyward on up-tempo workouts including a blistering Sweet Georgia Bright. There are also tender ballads, including the title track, Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodríguez’s Rabo de Nube (“tail of a cloud”), a mountaintop meditation with the tarogato (Ramanujan), a tribute to Booker Little, and more. Harland, increasingly seen as one of the most important contemporary jazz drummers, has played with McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Greg Osby, and Dave Holland. Reuben Rogers, a much sought after sideman, was born in the Virgin Islands and grew up listening to calypso and reggae as well as jazz, exposure that seems to have impacted on the lyrical dancing swing of his bass playing. He works exceptionally well with Harland exploring elastic grooves behind Lloyd’s poetic and/or emotional solos.

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