Mark Turner (mturner@netcom.com)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:34:02 -0800 (PST)
>
> OK, I know I'm walking into sensitive territory here, but throwing
> caution to the wind... Anybody heard anything on the ECM label in the
> past couple of years that they thought was half-way decent. Back in my
> college radio days I used to play some of there stuff, Terje Rypdal, et
> al. until I got a clue. Its fine as a musical form and all but the lack
> of a groove is its big downfall. They bill it as "jazz" but...
Two things on ECM have caught my ear in the past year:
Nils Petter Molvaer - KHMER
This Norwegian artist combines jazz and electronics in a sort
of post-Miles fusion. Skirting the edges of ambient and trip
hop, with a jazz focus. There are also some remixes available
by The Herbaliser and Rockers Hi-Fi.
Anouar Brahem - THIMAR
Brahem is a master oud player, here jazzing it up with John Surman
and Dave Holland. Sort of a folk/jazz fusion, very beautiful and
excellently recorded.
Neither of these releases are particularly "groovy," but are
well worth your while. This is NOT coffee-table jazz...
-- Mark Turner | "Jazzadelica" with Rocky Rococo on KFJC mturner@netcom.com | Sundays 10pm-2am, 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
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