ECM Records: 1001 - 1999

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<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; padding: 0px;">An all-star cast of jazz greats come together to pay tribute to their colleague, legendary drummer and composer, the late&nbsp;<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Paul Motian</strong>, voted number one in the 2012&nbsp;<em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Downbeat</em>&nbsp;Critics Poll Hall of Fame. One of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Motian played with Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Bley, and many other bandleaders, including Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Mose Allison, Tony Scott, Stan Getz, and Johnny Griffin.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; padding: 0px;">The concert, curated by&nbsp;<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Bill Frisell</strong>&nbsp;and<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">&nbsp;Joe Lovano</strong>, and emce&eacute;d by WBGO's <strong>Josh Jackson</strong>, features performances by Andrew Cyrille, Ben Monder, Ravi Coltrane, Ben Street, Bill Frisell, Billy Drewes, Jerome Harris, Billy Hart, Chris Cheek, Ed Schuller, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Bill McHenry, Greg Osby, Tim Berne, Ethan Iverson, Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano, Joey Baron, Chris Cheek, Larry Grenadier, Mark Turner, Masabumi Kikuchi, Petra Haden, Steve Cardenas, Tony Malaby, and Billy Hart Quartet (Ethan Iverson, Ben Street, Mark Turner).</p>
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Conception Vessel - A Tribute to Paul Motian

Sometime Ago/La Fiesta (Return to Forever)

First EP from Turzi's new album "C", out now !
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"Condor EP" available now : https://recordmakers.com/album/condor-ep-93 

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Turzi - Condor (Moodoïd Remix)

It's Valentine's Day, and the new DopeGems record is on point with that special occasion... Heartfelt, soulful performances from the vaults of early quiet storm is what it's all about.

Two beautiful tracks from the golden era of symphonic soul ballads rearranged as rich and intense small group instrumentals.

As an added 'secret' threat, those who know and recognize 'game' will be delighted to see this music reflect either side of their persona.

Available February 14th on digital

Limited Edition White 7" w/ deluxe die-cut cover available March 11th.

Vibraphone : Yragael Unfer
Keyboards : Giuliano Veludo
Guitar : Slikk Tim
Bass : Emmanuel Harang
Drums: Slikk Tim

Arranged, recorded and mixed by Slikk Tim.
Mastered by Shawn Joseph.

Graphic Design by Anton Gret

Special Thanks to Francky "D "

Ballads - EP

DOPEGEMS  "Travelling Man"

William Onyeabor - Love Me Now

Chick Corea: Song Of The Wind, arranged/improvised/performed by Geoffrey Burleson.  Recorded live at Brooks Concert Hall, College Of The Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, November 13th, 1997.

Chick Corea: Song Of The Wind, arranged/improvised/performed by Geoffrey Burleson

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE


Be Thankful For What You Got (William De Vaughn Cover)

From the Near Negative EP available December 15th, 2017 from Western Vinyl

"Monday Give Me Monday" showcases Art Feynman's signature grooves, krautrock slink, and staccato bounce, all captured on his trusty four-track cassette recorder.

Earlier this summer, Art Feynman released his debut full-length album Blast Off Through the Wicker and toured the US with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier. Pitchfork describes him as "a cool purveyor of coked-out dub-kraut." Consequence of Sound calls his debut a "funky, psychedelic slice of afro-pop" and Tiny Mix Tapes regards it as an "analog masterpiece."

In 2018 Art Feynman will return with his sophomore LP that takes us even further into his motorik and afrobeat inspired world of sound.

Near Negative

Art Feynman - "Monday Give Me Monday"

From Cochemea's debut album, All My Relations, out now on Daptone Records.

LP/CD /Digital:
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Cochemea Gastelum is coming home to connect with his roots. After nearly 15 years of touring the world with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, the saxophonist offers a deeply personal album of jazz and indigenous-influenced rhythms. All My Relations is 10 tracks of mesmerizing and spiritually ascendant instrumentation.

A California native with Yaqui and Mescalero Apache Indian ancestry, Cochemea grew up surrounded by music - both his parents were musicians, and they gave their son a heavy name meaning “they were all killed asleep.” Cochemea has spent much of his diverse musical career – as a soloist, musical director, composer and ensemble player – exploring and iterating on roots music, and All My Relations is a capstone meditation on his own ancestry.

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All My Relations

Cochemea - Al-Mu'tasim

Pre-order Levitation here: http://smarturl.it/FlamingodsLevitation

International psych explorers Flamingods are back with brand new album ‘Levitation’ (3 May, Moshi Moshi Records) and have announced a run of dates including their biggest headline show to date at London’s Village Underground on 1 May.

The first single to be unveiled is ‘Marigold’, a multi-sensory psych-rock trip that finds  Flamingods on hair-raising form even by their own exuberant standards. ‘Marigold’ oozes fun out of every pore, a perfect antidote to turbulent times.

‘Levitation’ is inspired largely by the disco, funk and psychedelic sounds coming out of the Middle East and South Asia in the 70s, the album channels these influences through a vision soaked in mysticism, positivity and sun-drenched imagery.

‘Levitation’ is the follow-up to Flamingods’ breakthrough 2016 album ‘Majesty’ 
The band will be taking their incendiary live show to venues around the UK in April and May in support of the record, as well as a one-off-date supporting Omar Souleyman in Bristol January 31st. 

May album tour tickets go on sale Friday 17 January at 10am via 
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31st January - The Marble Factory (Supporting Omar Souleyman), Bristol
31 March – Beat Hotel, Marrakech
27 April – Are you Listening? Festival, Reading
1 May – Village Underground, London
8 May – The Exchange, Bristol
15 May – Picture House Social, Sheffield
16 May – Broadcast, Glasgow 
17 May – YES, Manchester

Marigold

Pregoblin - Combustion

Atlantic Oscillations

Is It Your Intention

Holy Hive, the group that coined the genre Folk/Soul, comes out swinging with this monster Single. “Oh I Miss Her So” is pulled from their upcoming release Harping EP: a drop dead gorgeous tune of love and longing featuring the harping of Mary Lattimore. The tune serves as a testament to The Hive’s gift for songwriting and arrangement, taking the listener on a ride from the first notes of Paul’s falsetto to the outro featuring Dave Guy’s (The Roots) gorgeous trumpet solo. 

Taken from the upcoming Holy Hive EP "Harping". 

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Harping

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Holy Hive - The Things Themselves

C'était il y a tout juste un demi-siècle. Mal Waldron enregistrait au Tonstudio Bauer de Ludwigsburg le tout premier disque d'une maison dont le slogan aura grand écho : «Le plus beau son après le silence.» Editions of Contemporary Music, label de haute qualité audiophile plus connu sous le sigle ECM, s'imposera très vite, notamment grâce au succès du fameux Köln Concert de Keith Jarrett.

En attendant, c’est donc un autre esthète des noires et ivoire qui, le premier, posera son empreinte dans l’antre de Manfred Eicher, ce révolutionnaire qui a toujours maintenu une ligne claire entre la libre improvisation et la partition, entre le populaire et le savant.

A cette conjonction, se trouve donc Mal Waldron, le pianiste zen par excellence, qui a eu l’honneur dès la fin des années 50 d’accompagner Billie Holiday dans ses ultimes pas, tout en creusant ses propres sillons pour le compte notamment de New Jazz, la marque de prestige censée abriter les promesses de lendemains d’un jazz en pleine révolution.

Elégance

Sur The Quest, il pose un jalon d'un jazz tout à la fois marqué par l'écriture classique et ouvert à toutes les dérivations. En somme, l'idée directrice qui sera le diapason d'ECM à la fin de la même décennie. Installé deux ans plus tôt à Munich, le pianiste que les Japonais surnomment «le poète solitaire» se retrouve donc tout naturellement en novembre 1969 à la tête d'un trio pour cette session baptisée Free At Last.

«Le free jazz ne signifie ni une complète anarchie ni un son désorganisé», prévient Mal Waldron au dos du LP. La liberté chez le natif de New York, c'est avant tout la possibilité de jouer comme il l'entend, suivant la grille d'un bon vieux blues comme d'en sortir par des accords dissonants, de plaquer de grosses rythmiques jazz funk comme sur le terrible Rock My Soul ou de partir en une rêverie modale sur Balladina.

Seul l'instant compte chez celui qui prévient : «Si vous regardez trop en arrière, vous trébucherez au moment de faire un pas en avant.» Cela tombe sous le sens et, chez ce pianiste qui a en mains toute l'histoire afro-américaine, une telle sentence rime avec une atemporelle élégance. Il suffit de consulter les palanquées de disques, dont quelques pièces de premier choix produits en France (du puissant Blood and Guts sur Futura à l'intense Songs of Love and Regret pour Freelance) que Mal Waldron enregistrera à partir de cette date jusqu'à sa mort en 2002 pour mesurer combien sa musique nous faisait toujours du bien.

Bonus

On ne saura que trop remercier le label, peu enclin à ressortir sous format vinyle son catalogue, de fêter son anniversaire avec une édition augmentée d'un disque complet de bonus, des variations sur la même thématique et de photos et partitions de cette historique session. Last but least, moins de deux ans plus tard, le pianiste sera encore le premier à graver un album, toujours en trio, mais cette fois en live pour une autre grande firme basée à Munich, Enja.

Jacques Denis

https://www.liberation.fr/musique/2019/12/08/label-ecm-la-touche-mal-waldron_1767991/

Free at Last

Mal Waldron Trio - Rock My Soul

Bill Carrothers - Home Row
Recorded in 1992

Bill Carrothers - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Bill Stewart - drums

When Will The Blues Leave -- from "Bill Carrothers - Home Row"

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Orchestre Paillote - Orchestre Paillote (Guinea) 
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Supersister - Corporation Combo Boys (Netherlands)
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Sick Psych World 133 - Afric Pepperbird

133 - Afric Pepperbird

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