Apr 7 2018
Preview Echo Painting, the new project from Peggy Lee
Please mark your calendars for May 18, 2018, because that’s when the outstanding Peggy Lee returns with her new project Echo Painting. The cellist has been responsible for some of the most compelling music in the new millennium, concocting an intoxicating blend from the ingredients of jazz improvisation, classical music precision, folk music warmth and cinematic curiosities. Echo Painting will be released on the Songlines Recordings label.
You will want to buy this thing.
Your album personnel: Peggy Lee (cello), Brad Turner (trumpet, flugelhorn), Rod Murray (trombone), Jon Bentley (tenor & soprano saxophone), John Paton (tenor sax), Meredith Bates (violin), Bradshaw Pack (pedal steel guitar), Cole Schmidt (electric & acoustic guitar), James Meger (electric & acoustic bass), Dylan van der Schyff (drums, percussion) and guest: Robin Holcomb (voice).
You can pre-order the album on the artist’s Bandcamp page. Also at Amazon.
And here’s a video of the ensemble performing at The Ironworks in Vancouver Canada on June 25th, 2016. The video was recorded and produced by Lee Hutzulak, who we’ve featured videos from previously… including a video for Peggy Lee’s Film In Music ensemble.
And if you’re thinking you’d like to dig into some of Lee’s past works as you wait for the new album to hit the shelves, then by all means start with her excellent 2012 release Invitation. It was this site’s #7 album of the year for the Best of 2012.
Apr 12 2018
Let’s take a moment and watch some ECM Records videos
Let’s continue the ECM Records takeover of Bird is the Worm with some videos.
Even casual readers of this site will know that I’m a sucker for certain qualities in a music video. One of those are when a city skyline appears in the background. And, so, here’s a video of the Marcin Wasilewski Trio at the 2016 Jazztopad Festival at Dizzy’s Club in NYC. One of my very favorite albums is Wasilewski’s 2008 release January.
Learn more on ECM Records. Available at Amazon.
This next video far predates the latest release from saxophonist Andy Sheppard, but it’s too cool not to feature. The saxophonist teams up with percussionist Kuljit Bhamra on a rendition of “Dear Prudence.” The video is plenty fun all on its own, but this charming cover of a favorite song really makes this a special video. We recently featured a write-up of Sheppard’s recent release Romaria. Credit to Scot Alessi for putting this video together.
Learn more at ECM Records. Available at Amazon.
Okay, I’m not entirely sure what exactly this is from, and I place equal blame on Google Translate and the various middle school and high school teachers who failed miserably at teaching me French. With that out of the way, my best guess is that there was an art project at a festival where concert goers were asked to sketch while they were listening to the music. Here’s a video that might explain more, and here’s the site that video links to. The music in this video features Mathias Eick. A write-up of his latest album Ravensburg posted just yesterday.
Learn more at ECM Records. Available at Amazon.
And we’ll wrap up with a video that should look pretty familiar to you. It was featured along with the write-up for the lovely new release from the trio of drummer Shinya Fukumori, tenor saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave and pianist Walter Lang, titled For 2 Akis. But the video is so cool, I just had to feature it again.
Learn more at ECM Records. Available at Amazon.
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