It really is great; I'm a huge fan of the trio, and enjoyed their Spark Of Life album with Joakim Milder a lot. Lovano fits in with them perhaps even better here, lovely warm tone and inventive playing. I liked your choice of words - "unhurried, exploring and always in the moment" - although the track L'amour Fou fills the role of the one track on each album that really picks up a head of steam and hurries along, like Night Train To You from Faithful, Cat from January or Actual Proof from Spark Of Life. Anyone watching this thread will find something to like in this album.
Shoot, I know this is a rabbit hole, but I just got my 1st ECM CD because I wanted to start to get into ECM stuff. Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer - Re: ECM It's good, and I like it, but it's not quite what I thought it was. Anyway, I know I have this somewhere referred to in a Stereophile review, but I think there's like a very well regarded Keith Jarrett piano CD maybe? (Yeah, there's probably a few of them, but I think it was a 2 CD set, a concert ... ?? )
Got this one the other day also. Very nice. It has some nice acoustic guitar tunes and then the electric comes out to finish off the collection. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I spent the last weeks listening to Beethoven's piano sonatas almost incessantly so I am little burnt out on solo piano but I agree that this album is lovely. Probably the most played ECM album of the last two weeks for me. Google is migrating users from their old streaming service to the horrible YouTube Music and for some reason this album is not available on the new service. I am considering dropping Google for streaming even if the ability to upload my own tracks to the library is something I will miss...
Yeah, that Re: ECM is an outlier. I've listened to some of it. Not really representative of the ECM sound in the strictest sense but part of the broader ECM collage, more out at the end of the bell curve... The Keith Jarrett you might be referring to: Keith Jarrett: Munich 2016 ECM 2667/2668 (2 CDs) reviewed by Stereophile late last year. There are so many recordings by Keith that I wouldn't even know where to start, other than his most famous recording, The Köln Concert from 1975. Munich 2016 is very highly regarded though so it's about as good a live solo piano recording of his as any. You should also check out the Trio stuff with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.
I see that albums is a montage of many different ECM albums, almost like a hip hop sampling to create tracks from their catalog. I haven't heard it but it sounds like an interesting venture.
Finally got around to listening to this one and I concur: match made in heaven! "L'amour Fou" is the only one I don't instantly love, but that's typical; I never seem to enjoy the seemingly obligatory "fast tune" that tends to stick out like a sore thumb on most recent ECM releases. Can't deny the top shelf playing on this one, though. It's solid, even if it sounds like it belongs on a different album. In any case, great album here. I hope this collaboration isn't a one-off.
I think there may be access on YT premium or something like that but overall ECM isn't available via YT. It does looks like ECM is well represented on a few of the other streaming services though.
I dove headfirst into Keith solo piano by getting Sun Bear concerts hahaha. Personally I would recommend starting with Vienna Concert.
Not sure how I missed this one when it came out. I was going through a nasty divorce at the time so that's probably why, but I'm very glad it turned up in a something you might like. I like it very much. Spacy, percussive, guitar, and Nil's trumpet on top of it all. Great stuff.
Yes. I haven't got the proper knowledge to make a serious comparison of the many pianists who have tackled Beethoven's sonatas but I like Schiff's collection.
The frustrating thing is that as a paying Google Play Music customer I was migrated to YouTube Premium so most ECM albums are available but for unknown reasons some albums are missing, Promontoire being one of them. I have contacted YouTube Music's customer support but they are totally clueless. I don't seem to able to explain that the absence of some specific albums is a "bug" not a licensing issue.
I was going to ask what you thought of it. I have debated picking it up. I have liked what I have heard off of it.
I had to post this because I thought it was ... appropriate. Went to Amazon, and just searched for Keith Jarrett because I was curious what would come up. Koln Concert is #1, Munich is #2, and Fenice is #5.
Jack DeJohnette / Larry Goldings / John Scofield : Trio Beyond – Saudades Label: ECM Records – ECM 1972/73, ECM Records – B0006421-02 Format: 2 × CD, Album Released: 02 Jun 2006 Drums – Jack DeJohnette Guitar – John Scofield Organ [Hammond Organ], Electric Piano, Sampler – Larry Goldings Recorded live November 21, 2004 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London All 3 play very well on this. Goldings was new for me but he's excellent throughout.
I have bought the whole collection of the Schiff/Beethoven sonatas when it was heavily discounted on the ECM website (the boxset format) so it wasn't a massive investment and I am happy with it. Once again I am absolutely no critical listener when it comes to classical music and I know that not everyone likes how Schiff plays Beethoven but it works for me.
