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Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta ECM. Mostrar todas las entradas
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viernes, 25 de diciembre de 2015
COLLIN WALCOTT "Margueritti"
Collin Walcott was one of the first sitar players to play jazz. As a member of Oregon, Walcott's flexibility, interest in different cultures, and ability to play not only sitar but tabla and other percussion instruments made him a very valuable musician. Early on, he studied violin for two years, and played both snare drum and tympani in school. Walcott also studied percussion at Indiana University, and took sitar and tabla lessons with Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha, respectively. After stints with Tony Scott (1967-1969) and Tim Hardin, he became a member of the Paul Winter Consort in 1970. Walcott left the group with three other musicians (Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, and Glen Moore) in 1971 to form Oregon. In addition to recording and touring with Oregon, a unique folk-jazz group, Walcott recorded with Miles Davis in 1972, and was a member of Codona (a trio with Don Cherry and Nana Vasconcelos) that recorded for ECM. Tragically, Collin Walcott was killed in a traffic accident while on tour with Oregon in East Germany. He led three sessions for ECM and can be heard on the Codona and early Oregon recordings.
- Scott Yanow
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/collin-walcott-mn0000089828/biography
lunes, 10 de agosto de 2015
Chick Corea - After Noon Song [Piano Improvisations Vol. 2]
Originalmente posteado el 7 de septiembre de 2014
De los mejores jazzistas que ha parido este planeta.
A Prolific Explorer Of Jazz And Classical Music
A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 20-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering.
Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 61 nominations. He's also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category.
From straight ahead to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, children's songs to chamber music, along with some far-reaching forays into symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his illustrious career while maintaining a standard of excellence that is awe-inspiring. A tirelessly creative spirit, Chick continues to forge ahead, continually reinventing himself in the process.
Fuente: http://chickcorea.com/about-chick/sábado, 11 de julio de 2015
Stephan Micus - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Cuando de música para meditar se trata, pocos se pueden comparar con Stephan Micus. Esta pieza es de su disco de 1977 Implosions.Desde la década de los 80, Micus ha grabado en el innovador sello disquero ECM. Esto dice la Wikipedia:
La obra de Micus es principalmente del estilo world music. Su música explora las sonoridades y posibilidades expresivas de muy diferentes instrumentos de las tradiciones musicales del mundo. En muchos casos, Micus toca todos los instrumentos en sus grabaciones, combinando estilos de muy diferentes países y usando instrumentos de formas sin precedentes en cada una de sus piezas musicales.
Estudios
Ha estudiado una gran variedad de instrumentos, como guitarra, flauta de concierto, sitar en Benarés (India), guitarra flamenca en Granada (España), shakuhachi (flauta de bambú japonesa) y sho (órgano de boca japonés) en Kyoto (Japón), suling (flauta balinesa) en Ubud (Bali), gaita tradicional en Carna (Irlanda), sinding (arpa africana) en Gambia, dondon (tambor) en Accra (Ghana), doussn gouni (arpa africana) en Bamako (Mali), duduki (oboe georgiano) y canto coral en Tbilisi (Georgia), hné (oboe Burmese) en Yangon y Mandalay (Myanmar), duduk (oboe armenio) en Yerevan (Armenia), bagana (lira etíope) en Addis Abeba, etcétera. Con ello, se ha convertido en una especie de etnomusicologo, además de difusor y embajador musical de esas culturas.
Viajes
Micus hizo su primer viaje a oriente a la edad de 16 años, quedando fascinado por la gran variedad de culturas musicales. En su búsqueda de instrumentos, contextos y culturas musicales, ha viajado extensamente a países tan diversos como India, Japón, Indonesia, Corea, Afganistán, Marruecos, Argelia, Túnez, Tailandia, Egipto, Burma, Sri Lanka, Turkía, USA, Canadá, Israel, China, Gambia, Senegal, Nepal, Ladakh, Sinkiang, Venezuela, Tanzania, Argentina, Perú, Ghana, Mali, Jordania, Georgia, Etiopía, Pakistán, Yemen, Cuba, Líbano, Laos, Vietnam, Camboya, Uzbekistán, Kyrgyzstan, Cabo Verde, Mauritania, Armenia, Karabagh.
lunes, 23 de marzo de 2015
Jan Garbarek & Ustad Fateh Ali Khan - Saga
Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947)[1] is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres.
Garbarek's sound is one of the hallmarks of the ECM Records label, which has released virtually all of his recordings. His style incorporates a sharp-edged tone, long, keening, sustained notes, and generous use of silence. He began his recording career in the late 1960s, notably featuring on recordings by the American jazz composer George Russell (such as Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature). If he had initially appeared as a devotee of Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann, by 1973 he had turned his back on the harsh dissonances of avant-garde jazz, retaining only his tone from his previous approach. Garbarek gained wider recognition through his work with pianist Keith Jarrett's European Quartet which released the albums Belonging(1974), My Song (1977) and the live recordings Personal Mountains (1979), and Nude Ants (1979).[3] He was also a featured soloist on Jarrett's orchestral works Luminessence (1974) and Arbour Zena (1975).[4]
Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu: فتح علی خان) was a classical singer and Qawwali musician. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, British India in 1901. Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was the father of Pakistani Qawwali musician, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Their family has an unbroken tradition ofQawwali for over 600 years. Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was trained in classical music and Qawwali by his father, Maula Baksh Khan, and he soon distinguished himself as a skilled vocalist and instrumentalist. He learnt to play traditional Indian instruments such as sitar, sarod andvichitraveena as well as Western instruments like the violin. He also mastered thousands of verses in Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic and Persian.
- Wikipedia
jueves, 19 de marzo de 2015
Ralph Towner y Jon Christensen - Piscean Dance
Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen.
The 1977 album, Solstice/Sound and Shadows, was released by Towner on ECM with the same quartet.
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Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Michael G. Nastos states: "Of the many excellent recordings he has offered, Solstice is Towner's crowning achievement as a leader fronting this definitive grouping of ECM stablemates who absolutely define the label's sound for the time frame, and for all time."[1]
lunes, 1 de diciembre de 2014
Shankar "Watching You", con Jan Garbarek, Zakir Hussain y Trilok Gurtu
L. Shankar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
L. Shankar | |
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Shankar in One Truth Band, Jazz Bilzen 1978 performing with John McLaughlin
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Background information | |
Birth name | Lakshminarayana Shankar |
Also known as | Shenkar |
Born | 1950 Madras |
Genres | Carnatic, classical, electronica,progressive rock, soft rock,folk, fusion, jazz, occidental,pop, hard rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer,conductor, photographer,arranger, producer, engineer,pedagogue |
Instruments | Vocals, double violin, viola,electric violin, kanjira, tablas,dholak, drums, percussion,sarod, tamboura, keyboard |
Years active | 1972–present |
Labels | Axiom/Island/PolyGram ECM/Universal |
Notable instruments | |
Custom-built double violin |
Lakshminarayana Shankar, also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer.
Shankar has played with some of the greatest musical contemporaries of his time, including Lou Reed, Echo & the Bunnymen, Talking Heads,Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Charly García, Jonathan Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Stewart Copeland, Yoko Ono, A. R. Rahman, John Waite, Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Toto, Nils Lofgren, Mark O'Connor, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Sting.[5]Shankar has been praised for his ability to mix Eastern and Western influences, assimilating Carnatic music with pop, rock, jazz and contemporary world music.[8] He admits "Ultimately, I would like to bring the East and West together. That, I think, is my role," he says.
miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2014
Manu Katché - Keep on trippin' (clip officiel)
6 de septiembre de 2014
Escuché a Katché por primera vez en los años 80 en el disco So de Peter Gabriel. Este bravo percusionista ha tocado también con Sting, Jan Garbarek, Tracy Chapman, Simple Minds, Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, Manu Chao, Tori Amos, Joe Satriani, Youssou N'Dour, Tears for Fears y Ryuichi Sakamoto, entre muchísimos otros artistas.
jueves, 16 de octubre de 2014
Sounds And Silence, documental sobre ECM
A musical journey through the world of tones, sounds and noises: with Manfred Eicher, the outstanding producer of contemporary music.The film traces his life at concerts, in recording studios, in back rooms and off the beaten path witch such musical contemporaries as Arvo Pärt, Dino Saluzzi, Jan Garbarek, Eleni Karaindrou, Anouar Brahem, Gian Luigi Trovesi, Kim Kashkashian, Nik Bärtsch, Marilyn Mazur and many others.
lunes, 15 de septiembre de 2014
Pat Metheny - New Chautauqua
Esta es la canción titular del disco New Chautauqua de Pat Metheny, el cual salió en 1979 en el innovador sello discográfico ECM. Metheny toca todos los instrumentos en este disco.
martes, 9 de septiembre de 2014
STEPHAN MICUS - As I crossed a bridge of dreams
Originalmente posteado el 4 de septiembre 2014.
Cuando de música para meditar se trata, pocos se pueden comparar con Stephan Micus. Esta pieza es de su disco de 1977 Implosions. Desde la década de los 80, Micus ha grabado en el innovador sello disquero ECM. Esto dice la Wikipedia:
La obra de Micus es principalmente del estilo world music. Su música explora las sonoridades y posibilidades expresivas de muy diferentes instrumentos de las tradiciones musicales del mundo. En muchos casos, Micus toca todos los instrumentos en sus grabaciones, combinando estilos de muy diferentes países y usando instrumentos de formas sin precedentes en cada una de sus piezas musicales.
Estudios
Ha estudiado una gran variedad de instrumentos, como guitarra, flauta de concierto, sitar en Benarés (India), guitarra flamenca en Granada (España), shakuhachi (flauta de bambú japonesa) y sho (órgano de boca japonés) en Kyoto (Japón), suling (flauta balinesa) en Ubud (Bali), gaita tradicional en Carna (Irlanda), sinding (arpa africana) en Gambia, dondon (tambor) en Accra (Ghana), doussn gouni (arpa africana) en Bamako (Mali), duduki (oboe georgiano) y canto coral en Tbilisi (Georgia), hné (oboe Burmese) en Yangon y Mandalay (Myanmar), duduk (oboe armenio) en Yerevan (Armenia), bagana (lira etíope) en Addis Abeba, etcétera. Con ello, se ha convertido en una especie de etnomusicologo, además de difusor y embajador musical de esas culturas.
Viajes
Micus hizo su primer viaje a oriente a la edad de 16 años, quedando fascinado por la gran variedad de culturas musicales. En su búsqueda de instrumentos, contextos y culturas musicales, ha viajado extensamente a países tan diversos como India, Japón, Indonesia, Corea, Afganistán, Marruecos, Argelia, Túnez, Tailandia, Egipto, Burma, Sri Lanka, Turkía, USA, Canadá, Israel, China, Gambia, Senegal, Nepal, Ladakh, Sinkiang, Venezuela, Tanzania, Argentina, Perú, Ghana, Mali, Jordania, Georgia, Etiopía, Pakistán, Yemen, Cuba, Líbano, Laos, Vietnam, Camboya, Uzbekistán, Kyrgyzstan, Cabo Verde, Mauritania, Armenia, Karabagh.
domingo, 7 de septiembre de 2014
Ralph Towner - Nimbus
Originalmente posteado el 3 de septiembre de 2014.
ECM es el mejor sello disquero de jazz DEL MUNDO, lo digo en serio. Si usted es amante de la música jazzística anti-comercial e incomprensible, ECM es para usted. Fundado en 1969 por el visionario musical alemán Manfred Eicher, ECM le ha dado espacio a gigantes del jazz como Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Gary Burton, Egberto Gismonti y Charlie Haden, y vanguardistas creadores de sonidos imposibles de clasificar, como Stefan Micus, Steve Tibbetts, Mark Isham y David Torn.
En este enlace tienen la música de uno de los artistas más aclamados del sello, el virtuoso instrumentista norteamericano Ralph Towner. "Nimbus" es una pieza del disco Solstice, grabado en 1975, en el que es acompañado por J. Garbarek, Jon Christensen y Eberhard Weber.
jueves, 21 de agosto de 2014
Pat Metheny Group_The Epic
Una canción excelente aunque poco conocida de un disco de Pat Metheny Group que ha sido casi totalmente olvidado. American Garage, lanzado en 1979, fue el segundo disco de la banda, y el último que hicieron con Mark Egan en el bajo.
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