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Fasil 豆瓣
Marc Sinan & Julia Hülsmann
发布日期 2009年3月24日 出版发行: ECM
Marc Sinan guitar
Yelena Kuljic vocals
Lena Thies viola
Julia Hülsmann piano
Marc Muellbauer double-bass
Heinrich Köbberling drums, percussion
New York Days 豆瓣
8.0 (6 个评分) Enrico Rava / Stefano Bollani 类型: 爵士
发布日期 2009年1月27日 出版发行: ECM Records
Enrico Rava, is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis.
电影《永恒与一日》原声 豆瓣
9.5 (83 个评分) Eleni Karaindrou 类型: 原声
发布日期 1998年1月1日 出版发行: ECM
「永遠的一天」是希臘導演Theo Angelopoulos的作品,描述一位老者晚年生活,藉由一封信引發過去的記憶,在錯落的片段生活裡,交雜著記憶的回溯。這部意境深遠的影片,也同時為他贏得了1998年坎城影展金棕櫚最佳影片獎。
導演以其一貫的詩意風格和類魔幻寫實的手法,陳述老者行至生命終極的感觸,老者看似漫長的現實生活其實短暫,那些逝去的過往,反而在追憶的瞬間,被停滯的時空無限延伸,追憶似水年華瞬間亦是永恆……
希臘女作曲家Eleni Karaindrou與Angelopoulos的合作,自八O年代中期開始至今,累積長達十數年的默契;能將Angelopoulos影片中深沈的人文反思氣息,藉由音符完整呈現出來的,也非Karaindrou莫屬。在Angelopoulos的電影中,人物常是巨大歷史構圖中一抹微小的身影,是游移的大氣中一絲微弱的嘆息。許是合作已久,Karaindrou連音樂起伏的呼吸都與其影像近似,甚至有風格疊合之處。
這張專輯也不例外,它延續了影片一貫深沉的疏離,器樂選擇上以黑管和豎笛為主體,映襯淡雅的弦樂旋律。影像與音樂的對位時而喜悅時而低盪,形成矛盾的張力。銅管的沈重與弦樂的閒逸代表詩人的沈重遲暮與活力青春,在夢境中持續對話,老者忽忽悠悠的夢境,彷彿就從這些音符間隙中緩緩蔓延開來…… 除了類似迴旋曲形式反覆夢境之外迭宕的旋律,Karaindrou也適時選用了部分希臘傳統民謠,專輯裡並收錄片中老詩人的獨白,闡述對生命深沈的思索,在這樣的音樂背景中,獨具另一番動人魅力。
安氏曾經形容Karaindrou的音樂為「電影裡沒有流出來的血」
The Weeping Meadow 豆瓣
9.3 (25 个评分) Eleni Karaindrou 类型: 原声
发布日期 2004年7月27日 出版发行: ECM
Eleni Karaindrou (Greek: Ελένη Καραΐνδρου) is a Greek composer, born in the village of Teichio (Tichio) in Phocis, Central Greece, on November 25, 1941. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos
The Words And The Days 豆瓣
Enrico Rava Quintet
发布日期 2007年2月6日 出版发行: Ecm Records
The Words and the Days, the new quintet album by Enrico Rava, picks up where Easy Living left off. Rava's widely acclaimed return to ECM in 2003 was not only a reintroduction to one of European jazz's most elegantly inventive players, it was also a significant showcase for a real band. This is no less striking on The Words and the Days despite the departure of Stefano Bollani who is now focussing on his activities as a soloist and leader. The new pianist, Andrea Pozza proves ideally suited to the group's concept and their sense of ensemble is as strong as ever. Securely anchored in the tradition, rhythmically-assured and flexible, the quintet is able to react instantly to Rava's changing moods. One of the particular pleasures is Enrico's creative rapport with trombonist Gianluca Petrella - arguably Rava's most compatible frontline partner since the days when Rava and Roswell Rudd pooled personnel for their respective bands, but the whole group is in fine form throughout.

Rava's spectrum is broad. Pat Metheny recently spoke of the trumpeter's "amazing conception of melody and music in general, which instantly offered everything to my ears that I loved to hear, all in one unbelievably beautiful package" (Down Beat, January 2006), and the music's non-demonstrative compendiousness is certainly part of its charm. Rava (born 1939 in Trieste) is one of the few players who has explored almost all of jazz's history. He started out playing Kid Ory-inspired trombone in a Dixieland band, then switched to trumpet after seeing Miles Davis play in Turin with Lester Young in 1956. In the early 1960s, at the urging of Gato Barbieri, he became a full time jazz musician, joining Gato's band in 1964. In Rome he met Steve Lacy and toured widely with him, recording the classic "The Forest and the Zoo" (ESP) in Buenos Aires in 1966. The association with Lacy also brought him into contact with New York's Jazz Composer's Orchestra (Rava plays on Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill) and with Cecil Taylor. He made his ECM debut with The Pilgrim And The Stars in 1975, featuring John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. Later ECM recordings included groups with Roswell Rudd (Enrico Rava Quartet, 1978) and Dino Saluzzi (Volver, 1986). He also toured and recorded with Alex Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra (Compositions, 1979). But no matter how "free" the context, Rava was always a melodic, singing trumpeter. The lyrical side of his playing, and his composing, has developed over the years, but already in the 1970s Rava was contrasting a mellow `romantic' trumpet sound with freer tendencies. This is one of the subjects of "Dr. Ra and Mr. Va", a piece first heard on The Plot, 1976, revisited now The Words and the Days.

Another of Rava's continuing interests has been the sound-world of Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. This was touched upon on both Easy Living and on Tati (2004), Enrico's trio recording with Stefano Bollani and Paul Motian. Now the quintet plays Cherry's "Art Deco".

Repertoire, otherwise, is composed by Rava, save for "Traps" by drummer Roberto Gatto, bassist Rosario Bonaccorso's "Sogni proibiti" (forbidden dreams), and the standard "The Wind" - the Russ Freeman tune which Chet Baker used to play. Enrico's "Echoes of Duke" conjures the Ellington of the Cotton Club years, at least in its early moments, while "Serpent" is an undulating piece whose unpredictable trajectory brings late 60s Miles to mind - yet all these are unmistakably stamped with Rava's musical personality. The title track is a particularly affecting instance of his vaulting melodic flair in a free ballad context, "Secrets" a piece he has returned to over the years... In all, a rich and varied programme.

New pianist Andrea Pozza (born 1965 in Genoa) began playing jazz at the age of 13 in the clubs of Genoa. He has accompanied very many American players, amongst them Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Slide Hampton, Charlie Mariano, Sal Nistico, George Coleman, Al Grey, Jimmy Knepper and many more. He has worked extensively with saxophonist Steve Grossman.

Trombonist Gianluca Petrella (born 1975 in Bari) has played with Rava for a decade already. Earlier in his career he worked with Roberto Ottaviano, Carla Bley, Greg Osby, Lester Bowie and others. He made his ECM debut in 2001 on "Charmediterranéan" by the Orchestre Nationale de Jazz with Anouar Brahem and Gianluigi Trovesi. In 2005 he issued an album as a leader with Blue Note. Petrella also works regularly with singer Cristina Zavollini.

Bassist Rosario Bonaccorso (born 1957 in Sicily) is especially valued for his ability to play "in the tradition" and has been a valued sideman for international players including Benny Golson, James Moody, Lee Konitz, George Coleman, Clark Terry and Cedar Walton. He also leads his own quintet, for which Andrea Pozza is pianist.

Roberto Gatto (born 1958 in Rome) has been associated, off and on, with Rava over a period of more than 20 years. Reviewing the drummer with Enrico, Down Beat wrote, "Gatto listens and responds: Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette together." His inspirations are wider however, and he has also been influenced by `free' drummers including Han Bennink. Gatto has played with a vast cast of international jazz talents, including: Tommy Flanagan, Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, Johnny Griffin, Steve Lacy, Phil Woods, Joe Zawinul, Pat Metheny and many more.
Officium 豆瓣
8.5 (13 个评分) Jan Garbarek,The Hilliard Ensemble 类型: 古典
发布日期 1999年1月1日 出版发行: Ecm Records
Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław Garbarek, and a Norwegian farmer's daughter.