Keith Jarrett’s new album, No End, is a Jam Band of one. If you’re shocked by any direction that Keith Jarrett takes, then you haven’t been paying attention. The peripatetic pianist has recorded albums on solo pipe organ (Hymns/Spheres) and clavichord (Book of Ways). He’s recorded classical works from Bach to Mozart, including Bach’s Six…
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CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s 21st Century Classicism-Echoes CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse Echoes March CD of the Month Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Hear In a Time Lapse featured this weekend 3/8-10/2013 on Echoes. You could pretty much stop listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s new album In a Time Lapse after the second track…
Reviews & Commentary
Colin Vallon Trios Parlour Room Space Jazz.
Echoes will be recording a session with the Swiss jazz group, The Colin Vallon Trio tonight in Philadelphia at Turtle Studios. A new group to American shores, they have their own take on the chamber jazz sound favored by their label, ECM records as well as their late countrymen, E.S.T. I came across a video…
Reviews & Commentary
5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Five Essential Harold Budd CDs for Deep Listening of Pretty MusicSilence Required: The Best of Harold Budd, an Icon of Echoes. Harold Budd is a romantic with a classicist’s soul and an experimenter’s openness to chance. He’s never opted for the obvious ploys for the heartstrings. Instead, Budd explores the geometry of passion, the calculus…
Living Room Concerts, Reviews & Commentary
The Five Best George Winston CDs
George Winston Then & Now George Winston is both loved and reviled. His impressionistic solo piano albums came to define the Windham Hill sound and he’s among the first musicians most people think of when you say, New Age. Praised with five and four star reviews from Downbeat and Rolling Stone for his debut album, …