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The Peter Erskine trio's graceful European style is expertly captured on JUNI, their fourth release on Manfred Eicher's ECM label. Erskine, a drummer of international fame who hassuccessfully proven his superb musical abilities in a myriad of styles, is perfectly at home in this delicate, extremely expressive setting. His partners John Taylor (piano) and Pelle Danielsson (bass) are, of course, very adept at the complexities of the European jazz style that touches on the classical chamber music tradition.

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'Big Fish & Small Pond' is the second album of Ross with the instrumentation of piano, bass and percussion. With bassist Dietmar Fuhr and drummer Stéphane Huchard – both also took part in his last quintet CD 'Home & Some Other Place' – he fuses into a musical personality who almost demonstrates the absurdity of the functional division within the band. The question as to why the world needs another piano trio album does not arise for Ross because what matters to him is the music, not instrumentations.

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Katrina Krimsky pursues her deep passion - MUSIC. American/Swiss composer and pianist of Russian descent she has a highly individual style, exuberant and joyfully expressive, drawn on a vast wealth of musical resources. Katrina has collaborated and performed with Terry Riley, Woody Shaw, David Rosenboom, Barbara Higbie, Trevor Watts, Krishna Bhatt and many others, and she has received acclaim as interpreter of piano music by Villa-Lobos and Barber. Her unique career spans major movements in modern music.

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Bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette have often worked together since their early work with Miles Davis, and they're one of the most accomplished rhythm sections in jazz--fluent, inventive players who add something special to every situation they're heard in.

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The first eight volumes of the :rarum series – with music selected by Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Bill Frisell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Terje Rypdal, and Bobo Stenson – are now available as a 10-CD boxed set. As Stuart Nicholson, wrote in the BBC Music magazine: “... Selected by the artists themselves, this series is of enormous importance in revealing the breadth of each artist’s work, as much for the converted as the unconverted looking for a window into the remarkable ECM catalogue.”

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From free jazz and protest songs to American folk tunes, eclecticism has been bassist Charlie Haden's stock-in-trade. On his previous recording, Nocturne, Haden, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, and percussionist Ignacio Berroa explored the Latin ballad tradition. Here, save for Augstin Lara's "Solamente Una Vez (You Belong to My Heart)" (previously recorded by Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra) and Armando Manzanero's "Esta Tarde Vi Llover (Yesterday I Heard the Rain)," Haden focuses on the work of little-known Mexican composer Jose Sabre Marroquin. Haden's vivid and vibrant bass lines are augmented by Rubalcaba's transcendent arrangements, featuring Lovano and alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon. Marroquin's romantic boleros and canciones, especially "Nostalgia" and "Paola's Song," exemplify the softer syncopations of the Latin sound. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Eberhard Weber's first record remains his most well-known and influential. An ambitious work of what might be called symphonic jazz, The Colours of Chloë helped to define the ECM sound -- picturesque, romantic, at times rhythmically involved, at others minimalistic and harmonically abstruse.

Thanks to Dave Holland's presence this is probably one of Wallace's career peaks. The man is beginning to craft his brand new 80s 'roots' sound which will lead to some of the great and hidden masterpieces of his discography.

In the grand tradition of such inspired pairings as Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis or Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, tenor titans Eric Alexander and Grant Stewart team up again as Reeds and Deeds for a new outing that again highlights the saxophonists' complimentary styles.
Ably supported by David Hazeltine, John Webber, and Joe Farnsworth the pair covers a smart mix of standards from the bossa strains of "Black Orpheus" to the soulful Ammons classic "Hittin the Jug".