Achtung Jazzbos! How's the latest Motian Trio 2000 +2 On Broadway (vol. 5)?

[Pascal]

I just found out about it. And I'm not familiar with the new guys:

Thomas Morgan, basse
Loren Stillman, saxophone
Michaël Attias, saxophone




FWIW, I like the earlier volumes of the series very much.

While we're at it, I also missed the latest Alasnoaxis, Houseplant... I liked their first album, the others, slightly less... how's this one?


Thanks.

[Flamencology]

Stellar.

Assuming you're talking about this one:



It's kinda similar to Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1, if you have that.

[Pascal]

consider it ordered.



I knew it wouldn't take much to convince me. Motian hasn't recorded much crap lately...

[Flamencology]

And Thomas Morgan replaces Marc Johnson on the latest record by the John Abercrombie Quartet, on ECM, if you're interested in that.

Mark Feldman =

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Flamencology

Stellar.

Assuming you're talking about this one:



It's kinda similar to Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1, if you have that.

Oh oh, timely edit! No, wrong Paul Motian 2000 Trio + two. This one is @ the Village Vanguard II, not On Broadway V.
I'm talking about this one:




And yes, I already have the two you mention, and love them.

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Flamencology

And Thomas Morgan replaces Marc Johnson on the latest record by the John Abercrombie Quartet, on ECM, if you're interested in that.

Mark Feldman =

Will check this out, I certainly love this band. Do you remember the name of the album?

[Flamencology]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Oh oh, timely edit! No, wrong Paul Motian Trio + two.
I'm talking about this one:




And yes, I already have the two you mention, and love them.

Well, I'll be. I'll have to order that, too.

Motian is a prolific man for someone his age.

I've really been enjoying George Garzone's Among Friends, which features Motian, Steve Kuhn, and Anders Christensen.

There's also a newish trio record with Ed Schuller, Joe Lovano, and Motian that I like a lot... I think it's called Serendipity?

[Flamencology]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Will check this out, I certainly love this band. Do you remember the name of the album?

Yeah, it's called Wait Till You See Her.

The jacket photo is of one of the East River bridges in NYC that's not the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Pascal]

I see that Nelson Veras is about to issue a solo guitar album (24/09). If it's anything like the 2 new tracks on his Myspace (Besame mucho, Triste), it sounds pretty cool.

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Flamencology

Yeah, it's called Wait Till You See Her.

The jacket photo is of one of the East River bridges in NYC that's not the Brooklyn Bridge.

Thanks. I wasn't aware of this one. Will have to have it.

[Flamencology]

Here's one that I just found out about, via ECM's website, that I'll definitely have to pick up:

“Stone in the Water” features the brilliant Italian pianist’s “Danish trio”, a group that has been honing its improvisational understanding for six years already. Bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund (both making ECM debuts) draw on a still longer association, having collaborated closely for more than 15 years. The three players move, with immense subtlety, through a fascinating programme that includes new pieces by Bollani and Bodilsen, plus ballads by Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Poulenc’s “Improvisation 13 en mineur”, bringing fresh colours to the piano trio genre.

[Pascal]

Damn... keeping up with the new releases is a full-time job.

ECM isn't the easiest label for me to work with, though. I haven't found any place that'll let me buy MP3s... (copyright restrictions as I'm not in the US or EU, I guess). Although honestly I haven't checked the iTunes store. Do they still sell protected files that you can't copy more than a few times?

[Flamencology]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Damn... keeping up with the new releases is a full-time job.

ECM isn't the easiest label for me to work with, though. I haven't found any place that'll let me buy MP3s... (copyright restrictions as I'm not in the US or EU, I guess). Although honestly I haven't checked the iTunes store. Do they still sell protected files that you can't copy more than a few times?

ECM catalog is on iTunes here in Canada.

And no... those restrictions have been gone for a while, now, for 99.9% of releases.

If that doesn't work, shoot me a PM. I owe you, anyway.

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Flamencology

ECM catalog is on iTunes here in Canada.

And no... those restrictions have been gone for a while, now, for 99.9% of releases.

If that doesn't work, shoot me a PM. I owe you, anyway.

Cool. I'll give it a shot then. Thanks.

Otherwise ECM releases aren't too difficult to "find" out there, but there's some music I'd rather pay for.

[Flamencology]

While we're still on the ECM line-of-discussion...

I was listening to Steve Kuhn's Mostly Coltrane again tonight, and that really is a gorgeous record.

I hope that the Motian/Frisell/Lovano trio does another record soon. It's been a while, and their most recent live shows have apparently been spectacular.

[Flamencology]

Product Description
This is a specially-packaged, specially-priced three CD set. Improvised, solo music from the great American pianist, recorded at two concerts that took place at the end of last year. In his liner notes, Keith gives a highly personal account of the music's inspirational genesis, which is outstanding, even by his own high standards, with powerful emotions never far from the music's surface. These are recordings to put alongside the very finest in Jarrett's solo idiom. The open format, embracing much music in shorter episodes, follows a pattern similar to that found on Radiance, but there are also flashes of the existential poetic flair which made, for instance, the Sun Bear Concerts such a special musical experience. The release of Testament coincides with the 40th anniversary of the ECM label.

Release Date: October 6, 2009