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Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matt Garrison June 1 Healdsburg, CA (Healdsburg Festival) June 15 New York, NY (Central Park Summerstage) Mark Turner / Ethan Iverson June 1 Berkeley, CA (California Jazz Conservatory) June 2 Healdsburg, CA (Healdsburg Festival) June 5 - 8 Charleston, SC (Spoleto Festival) June 25 - 27 New York, NY (Village Vanguard) Carla Bley TRIOS w/Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow June 2 Healdsburg, CA (Healdsburg Festival) Ralph Towner June 2 Santa Cruz, CA (Kuumbwa Jazz Festival) Heiner Goebbels June 3-9 New York, NY (Park Avenue Armory) Everything That Happened And Would Happen Till Fellner June 6 - 7 Minneapolis, MN (Orchestra Hall) Andrew Cyrille June 11 Brooklyn, NY (Spectrum) Vision Fest with Wadada Leo Smith and Brandon Ross Giovanni Guidi June 11 New York, NY (Italian Cultural Institute) June 14 New York, NY (Jazz Gallery) with John Escreet, Dezron Douglas and Gerald Cleaver Meredith Monk June 11 - 12 &14 Los Angeles, CA (Disney Hall) – ATLAS Kit Downes June 15 Luskville, PQ (Pontiac Enchante Concert Series) June 23 Rochester, NY (Rochester Jazz Festival) June 24 Rochester, NY (Rochester Jazz Festival) June 26 Toronto, ON (Toronto Jazz Festival) June 28 Brooklyn, NY (Shapeshifter) June 30 Minneapolis, MN (St Olaf’s) Vijay Iyer June 22 Princeton, NJ (McCarter Theater) – Sextet June 29 Baltimore, MD (Museum of Art, Sculpture Garden) Jakob Bro Trio June 23 Winnipeg, AL, Canada (Winnipeg Jazz Festival – Old Market Square) June 24 Edmonton, AL, Canada (Edmonton Jazz Festival – Yardbird Suite) June 25 Ottawa, ON (Ottawa Jazz Festival – NAC Fourth Stage) Kim Kashkashian June 23 - July 6 Ravinia Park, IL (Ravinia Festival) Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn June 27 Montreal, PQ (Montreal Jazz Festival – Gesú) Tord Gustavsen June 28 Montreal, PQ (Montreal Jazz Festival – Gesú) Ethan Iverson Quartet June 28 - 29 New York, NY (Village Vanguard) © 2019 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Radio Canada reports that the Als lost C$12 million last year, and C$25 million over the past three years. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/28/alouettes-lost-over-12-million-in-2018-report/ ***** BC has cut Rolly Lumbala. It looks like Ed Hervey is getting rid of the people he inherited. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/27/lions-release-of-rolly-lumbala-about-roster-contruction/

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 In 1999, a year after recording their reunion album Not Two, Not One, Paul Bley’s highly innovative trio with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian took to the road with concerts on both sides of the Atlantic. When Will The Blues Leave documents a terrific performance from this tour period with the musicians playing with the subtlety of master improvisers, recasting the music in every moment. LISTEN / BUY Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Spontaneously improvised for the most part, and with mysterious detail flowering inside its soundscapes, Lost River keeps revealing new forms. LISTEN / BUY Improvising vocalist, folk singer, storyteller, pianist: on her ECM debut Areni Agbabian focuses the range of her skills in music that casts a quiet spell. A sparse music in which voice, piano and subtle percussion continually shade into silence.  The California-born Agbabian, known through her work with Tigran Hamasyan, draws deeply upon and reinterprets her Armenian heritage, interspersing these elements among her own evocative compositions. LISTEN / BUY © 2019 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Here are two checking down columns I missed... 4/30 https://www.cfl.ca/2019/04/30/checking-eyes-elimimian/ ***** 5/16 https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/16/checking-football-back-rookie-camps-kick-off/

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More catching up... With the retirement of Ricky Ray, Chad Rempel has become the league's oldest player. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/12/plot-twist-chad-rempel-is-leagues-oldest-player-after-all/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/12/who-is-the-cfls-oldest-player-following-the-retirement-of-ricky-ray/ ***** With their signing of Jon Ryan, the Riders have cut Josh Bartel. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/13/riders-release-punter-josh-bartel/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/13/riders-sign-canadian-punter-jon-ryan-report/ ***** The new union contract allows for tampering before the free agency date. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/16/tampering-prior-to-cfl-free-agency-made-legal-in-new-cba/ ***** Winnipeg preview https://3downnation.com/2019/05/16/john-hodges-blue-bomber-training-camp-preview/ ***** The Ticats cut Jalen Saunders. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/16/why-the-ticats-released-receiver-jalen-saunders/ ***** Remember Brett Boyko? He has signed with BC. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/15/b-c-lions-sign-ol-brett-boyko-who-could-be-really-really-good/ ***** The Eskimos cut Mason Woods. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/17/eskimos-release-canadian-ol-mason-woods/ ***** Bryant Mitchell signed with Tampa Bay. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/16/former-eskimos-receiver-bryant-mitchell-signs-with-the-tampa-bay-bucs/ ***** Josiah St. John has signed with the Argos. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/18/argos-sign-former-riders-no-1-pick-canadian-ol-josiah-st-john/ ***** Hamilton previews https://3downnation.com/2019/05/19/training-camp-preview-ticats-offence-looks-locked-and-loaded/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/20/training-camp-preview-for-the-ticats-defence-and-special-teams/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/26/what-van-zeyls-signing-means-and-other-thoughts-from-ticats-training-camp/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/21/steinauer-looking-at-all-options-for-rb/ ***** Ottawa preview https://3downnation.com/2019/05/20/redblacks-training-camp-primer-plenty-up-for-grabs/ ***** Calgary preview https://3downnation.com/2019/05/20/stamps-camp-to-defend-championship/ ***** Sergio Castillo has signed with BC. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/26/lions-ink-kicker-sergio-castillo/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/26/lions-ink-kicker-sergio-castillo/ ***** Montreal preview https://3downnation.com/2019/05/25/who-will-the-alouettes-seven-canadian-starters-be-in-2019/ ***** Jordan Reaves will miss the year due to a knee injury. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/27/riders-jordan-reaves-suffers-season-ending-injury/ ***** The pre-season games began Sunday with Edmonton beating BC 22-7. Very few starters played. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/26/eskimos-play-some-starters-beat-inexperienced-b-c-squad-in-pre-season-opener/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/26/pre-season-recap-edmonton-22-bc-7/ https://www.cfl.ca/games/2552/bc-lions-vs-edmonton-eskimos/#/preview https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/26/victory-good-starting-point-eskimos-qbs/ ***** 5/27 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/27/checking-canadian-o-line-capital/ ***** Here are looks at the Stampeders' Grey Cup ring. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/23/stamps-receive-106th-grey-cup-rings/ ***** Here are looks at this year's uniforms. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/23/new-era-launches-team-uniforms-2019-cfl-season/

Lots and lots of catching up to do. First let's finish up with the league's analyses of the teams. Toronto https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/17/off-season-depth-chart-toronto-argonauts/ Montreal https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/16/off-season-depth-chart-montreal-alouettes/ Edmonton https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/15/off-season-depth-chart-edmonton-eskimos/ BC https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/14/off-season-depth-chart-bc-lions/ Sask https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/13/off-season-depth-chart-saskatchewan-roughriders/ ***** My first CFL game was Sask at Hamilton in August of '76. Sask's head coach was John Payne. John Payne passed away May 18. RIP. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/22/former-riders-coach-john-payne-passes-away/ https://leaderpost.com/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders/rob-vanstone-former-saskatchewan-roughriders-head-coach-john-payne-was-a-good-man ***** Ciante Evans has signed with Montreal. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/22/report-alouettes-sign-corner-ciante-evans/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/22/alouettes-to-sign-standout-cover-man-ciante-evans/ ***** Adam Konar was cut by the Eskimos, and signed with BC. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/21/konars-homecoming-dream-come-true/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/19/report-lions-sign-canadian-lb-adam-konar/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/18/eskimos-release-lb-adam-konar/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/18/another-vet-gets-cut-adam-konar-released-by-esks/ ***** 5/19 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/19/checking-news-notes-day-1-camp-2/ ***** Montreal cut Ernest Jackson. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/19/als-release-veteran-ernest-jackson-ink-canadian-qb/ ***** Tyler Crapigna signed with the Argos. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/19/argos-bolster-canadian-content-st-john-crapigna/ ***** Chris Van Zyl was cut by the Argos, and signed with the Ticats. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/18/report-ticats-ink-van-zeyl-2020/ https://3downnation.com/2019/05/18/ticats-sign-canadian-ol-chris-van-zeyl-after-argos-release/ ***** Freddie Bishop has signed with the Argos. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/19/argos-sign-dl-freddie-bishop/ ***** Training camps opened Sunday, and the first exhibition game (BC at Edmonton) is today at 4:00 pm eastern. So 3DownNation has published a new power rankings. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/21/3down-power-rankings-theres-a-new-no-1-at-least-for-now/ ***** The XFL made it official, and named June Jones to be their Houston GM/HC. https://www.xfl.com/articles/xfl-names-june-jones-houston-head-coach ***** SirVincent Rogers, newly signed by the Eskimos, tore his left triceps, and may miss the year. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/24/sirvincent-rogers-could-be-out-for-the-year-and-thats-bad-news-for-the-esks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/24/esks-rogers-sidelined-indefinitely/ ***** Brad Erdos is out for the year. https://3downnation.com/2019/05/25/brad-erdos-out-for-season-leaving-stamps-thin-along-the-offensive-line/ ***** If you scroll down a little bit, you will see the list of each team,'s radio station. They appear to me to be unchanged from last year. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/05/23/watch-2019-cfl-pre-season-broadcast-schedule/ On the same link, you will see the list of the four exhibition games to be telecast. All four will be shown in the US on ESPN+.

Artist Title Time Kelly Fumo and John Fumo DON'T WAIT TOO LONG 02:59 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo YOU GO TO MY HEAD 06:05 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo AIN'T NO USE 03:07 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 04:57 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo YOU'RE MY THRILL 05:31 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL 04:59 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY 03:42 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo LOVERMAN 04:48 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo THE THRILL IS GONE 04:30 Kelly Fumo and John Fumo PEEL ME A GRAPE 04:49 Kelly Fumo & John Fumo w/Fumosonic "Grape" These 10 jazz standards were arranged simply, yet with the idea that something a little unexpected will be around each corner. Honest and true to the idiom, our hope is to keep you interested throughout this musical journey. "You both sound wonderful, and I like how straightforward it all sounds…very present and intimate. Great playing and singing and arrangements too. Bravo! And thanks for sharing." Dave Koz - SiriusXM John and Kelly have released seven CDs to date, the most recent being “GRAPE”, A collection of 10 Jazz standards. Since 2005 John Fumo has been touring and recording for multi platinum, Grammy winning and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Neil Diamond. He has also played, recorded, and toured with a long and diverse list of major artists including Neil Young, Herbie Hancock, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Crosby Stills & Nash, Smokey Robinson, Avenged Sevenfold, Barry Manilow, Barbara Streisand, Harry Connick Jr., Brian McKnight, Celine Dion, Tower of Power, Faith Hill, Al Jarreau, Whitney Houston, Juan Gabriel, k.d. lang, James Brown, Charlie Haden, Ricky Martin, Phoebe Snow, John Tesh, Bon Jovi, Mel Tormé, and many others. John has performed on hundres of film scores, and some of his numerous TV appearances include SNL, The David Letterman Show, Oprah, Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel, American Idol, and The Tonight Show. Kelly Fumo prior to working extensively on television jingles and film scores performed in all parts of the world, including Japan, Germany, Italy, New York, and in Southern California. Her composing, vocals and art skills are the major cog in the musical world of Fumosonic. Their compositions can be heard in many TV shows and films, including Mad Men, Suits, Aquarius, 50/50, Ray Donovan, and Switched at Birth. John Fumo is a YAMAHA trumpet Artist. www.fumosonic.com

Grace Kelly "GO TiME: Live in LA" Impacting: April 29 2019 Format(s): Jazz Artist Title Time Grace Kelly Unbroken Wings 07:32 Grace Kelly Is You Or Isn't You My Baby 05:17 Grace Kelly Come Together 06:43 Grace Kelly Crazy Love 04:38 Grace Kelly Spain 04:57 Grace Kelly Unbroken Wings (Remix) 03:21 Grace Kelly Lemons Make Lemonade 04:48 Millennial Jazz Prodigy Grace Kelly Builds on Innovative Video Album Concept for Fans with GO TiME: Live in LA Live album recorded at high-concept venue features music, dance, and cutting-edge videography in an immersive and joyful jazz experience 26-year-old bandleader-singer-saxophonist-composer Grace Kelly, fresh off of the success of her groundbreaking two-part 2018 video album GO TiME: Brooklyn, has just released a new project in the series called GO TiME: Live in LA. The LA album rises to the high technical and artistic bar set by GO TiME: Brooklyn -- including imaginative “Graceified” arrangements of jazz standards and popular songs, new original music played by a world-class band, and choreography performed by acclaimed improvisational tap dancer Sarah Reich -- while tackling the challenge of producing the most authentic and engaging multi-sensory music experience possible for fans all over the world. The new live album was funded by 350+ fans through online crowdfunding initiatives for the GO TiME series and also inspired by the millions of views and hundreds of positive comments and shares on Kelly’s proof-of-concept Pop-Up video series on YouTube featuring the saxophonist and special guests in exotic locales. “The GO TiME: Brooklyn album was a turning point in my career as a performer who loves connecting with audiences and bringing them into the performance experience,” Kelly says. “Because we were able to use technology to capture the visual aspect and live energy of the show in a new way and debut it over Facebook Live and other online media platforms, I could really bring my whole dancing, furry-pink-boa-wearing self to the project - and the response was incredible. I wanted to keep pushing the envelope with GO TiME: Live in LA to give back to all of the fans who encourage me to keep breaking down the conventional barriers between performers and audiences. After over a decade of performing internationally and releasing albums, I’ve found that I grow so much as an artist when I focus on helping my fans feel the same exhilaration and joy that I do when I perform for them.” GO TiME: Live in LA will be available for purchase as a digital video album, digital audio download, or physical CDs through the newly-launched store on www.gracekellymusic.com. The audio tracks will also be available on Spotify, iTunes, and other major online music streaming services. Featured by Vanity Fair as a millennial shaking up the jazz world, Kelly’s state-of-the-art brand of electro jazz-pop and inventive digital content are pushing her to the forefront of the fusion scene, alongside names like Snarky Puppy, Jacob Collier, Cory Henry, Robert Glasper, Jon Batiste, and Too Many Zooz. Kelly’s early career featured performances at Barack Obama’s 2016 inauguration and as a soloist with the Boston Pops playing an original composition arranged for the legendary orchestra; she has since then played over 900 shows as bandleader in 35 countries at venues like the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl and for the Montreal, Newport, and Montreux international jazz festivals. She has won numerous ASCAP and other songwriting awards, including a Grand Prize nod in the 2018 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the song ‘Feels Like Home.’ For further information about Grace Kelly and to purchase her CDs and merchandise, visit her website at www.grackellymusic.com. She’s also on YouTube at youtube.com/gracekellymusic, on Facebook at facebook.com/GraceKellymusic, on Instagram at instagram.com/gkellymusic, and Twitter at @gracekellymusic.

Artist Title Time Alex Sill 21st Century Alchemy 07:22 Alex Sill Jackie 04:33 Alex Sill The Activity 06:20 Alex Sill Chaparral 06:36 Alex Sill The Ballad of James Dean 10:21 Alex Sill Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise 06:57 Alex Sill Chumash Lullaby 01:58 Alex Sill Gaucho's Theme 05:48 Alex Sill To a Theater Near You 12:17 Alex Sill "Experiences: Real and Imaginary" Impacting: May 16 2019 Format(s): Jazz, Non-Commercial, NPR Alex Sill Experiences: Real and Imaginary- A masterful debut of fresh, cinematic compositions featuring Dave Grusin and Otmaro Ruiz, reflecting the influence of Pat Metheny, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Allan Holdsworth and other guitar greats. --- "Alex Sill is one of those rare talented individuals that has all the elements in place.. He is one of the vital players that has the potential to raise the Jazz bar."- STEVE VAI “I first became aware of Alex Sill in 2012 when he won the Rock Guitar division in our International Six String Theory Guitar Competition. Since those early days, Alex has evolved with his own style, blending progressive jazz, rock, and a fine sense of composition & orchestration. He possesses a phenomenal technique and now has evolved with his first record with a mature sound, unique lead guitar voice & a great blend of tunes & guitar virtuosity. Do you self a favor and check out Experiences: Real and Imaginary by Alex Sill! Some very cool, & fresh music!! -LEE RITENOUR (Multi-Grammy Award Winning Guitarist & Composer) --- Socials/Links: www.alexsill.com Link to EPK ---

The Tierney Sutton Band "ScreenPlay" Impacting: May 16 2019 Format(s): College, Jazz, Non-Commercial, NPR Artist Title Time The Tierney Sutton Band The Windmills of Your Mind 05:31 The Tierney Sutton Band Moon River / Calling You 04:41 The Tierney Sutton Band On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) 04:06 The Tierney Sutton Band What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 05:48 The Tierney Sutton Band I've Got No Strings 04:30 The Tierney Sutton Band If I Only Had A Brain 05:59 The Tierney Sutton Band The Sound of Silence 05:32 The Tierney Sutton Band Goodbye For Now 02:27 The Tierney Sutton Band Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend 03:24 The Tierney Sutton Band Hopelessly Devoted To You 04:12 The Tierney Sutton Band You're The One That I Want 05:01 The Tierney Sutton Band How Do You Keep The Music Playing? 04:20 The Tierney Sutton Band Ev'ry Now and Then 02:59 The Tierney Sutton Band It Might Be You 06:25 The Tierney Sutton Band Arrow 02:55 After 25-plus years, eight Grammy nominations and countless performances throughout the world, the Los Angeles-based TIERNEY SUTTON BAND presents ScreenPlay, an ambitious 15-track collection of songs from American film. ScreenPlay opens with a song by the most influential film lyricists of all time, Alan and Marilyn Bergman. “The Windmills of Your Mind” was an Academy Award winner for the Bergmans and composer Michel Legrand in 1969. Other Bergman contributions to ScreenPlay include “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?,” “It Might Be You,” and the previously unrecorded “Ev’ry Now And Then.” Tierney Sutton and Alan Bergman himself perform a vocal duet on “How Do You Keep The Music Playing.” Along with the five Bergman titles, the music of ScreenPlay spans nearly 80 years of American film. The arrangements and Sutton’s readings of the songs that comprise ScreenPlay are pure TIERNEY SUTTON BAND at the height of its powers. Starting with the 1930s on tunes like "If I Only Had A Brain” from The Wizard Of Oz, to the 1980s on a heartbreaking “Hopelessly Devoted To You,” and a Latin 5/4 romp through “You’re The One That I Want” from the movie musical Grease, and up through 2016 on “Arrow," which was originally written for Clint Eastwood’s hit Sully, the TIERNEY SUTTON BAND subtly illuminates and revolutionizes each well-worn song while shining a loving light on some lesser known gems. This recording is yet another classic from one of the most creative and artistically satisfying bands on the scene today.

Carole King’s very first performance outside of the U.S. took place in 1973, at The Montreux Pavillon as part of the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival. Released for the very first time, this concert film eas captured two years after she altered the course of pop history with ‘Tapestry’, and one month after she issued the album ‘Fantasy’. Carole performs with heartfelt energy, playing classic hits such as “It’s Too Late”, “I Feel The Earth Move”, “You’ve Got A Friend” plus standout tracks from Fantasy - “Believe in Humanity” and “Corazón”- as she is backed by an ensemble of top musicians. Carole King is one of most successful songwriters of the 20th Century, winning 10 Grammy Awards and selling over 75 million records. TRACKLISTING 1. I Feel The Earth Move 2. Smackwater Jack* 3. Home Again 4. Beautiful 5. Up On The Roof 6. It’s Too Late 7. Fantasy Beginning 8. You’ve Been Around Too Long 9. Being At War With Each Other* 10. That’s How Things Go Down* 11. Haywood 12. A Quiet Place To Live 13. You Light Up My Life 14. Corazón 15. Believe In Humanity 16. Fantasy End 17. You’ve Got A Friend 18. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman

Artist Title Time Brad Mehldau The Garden 07:18 Brad Mehldau Born To Trouble 04:01 Brad Mehldau Striving After Wind 04:39 Brad Mehldau O Ephraim 05:22 Brad Mehldau St. Mark Is Howling In The City Of Night 06:20 Brad Mehldau The Prophet Is A Fool 06:48 Brad Mehldau Make It All Go Away 04:32 Brad Mehldau Deep Water 05:13 Brad Mehldau Proverb of Ashes 04:18 Brad Mehldau Finding Gabriel 07:06 Brad Mehldau "Finding Gabriel" Impacting: May 17 2019 Format(s): Jazz Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s Finding Gabriel on May 17, 2019. The album comprises nine thematically related songs by Mehldau and features performances by him on piano, synthesizers, percussion, and Fender Rhodes, as well as vocals. Guest musicians include Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling, Joel Frahm, Mark Guiliana, Gabriel Kahane, and Becca Stevens, among others. Full track listing and credits are below. Finding Gabriel is available for pre-order now at iTunes, and the Nonesuch Store, where the track “The Garden” may be downloaded immediately. It will also stream at Spotify, Apple Music, and other digital service providers. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition print. Mehldau explains, “Finding Gabriel came after reading the Bible closely for the last several years. The prophetic writing of Daniel and Hosea resonated in particular, as well as the wisdom literature of Job and Ecclesiastes, and the devotional words of Psalms. The Bible felt like a corollary and perhaps a guide to the present day—one long nightmare or a signpost leading to potential gnosis, depending on how you read it. The archangel Gabriel appeared to Daniel, telling him, ‘At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.’ It seemed that the trick was to listen to Gabriel’s words through all the noise and find a way to explain the bedlam, not only to oneself, but to a young person with less of a reference as to what is right-side up—perhaps one’s own children. “In this upside down state of affairs, the prophet is a fool: ‘The man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred,’ Hosea says. He meant that the prophet indeed speaks the truth, but no one believes it anymore—it’s all fake news, no matter on which side of the fence you are standing. There is a temptation to make it all go away and escape into even more distraction, but this is only temporary refuge and leads one further into a matrix of falsehood. Eventually one comes up for air with more confusion and maybe even despair. With all the supposed connectivity, it seems that we are more separated from each other than ever, submerged in the deep water of unhappy solitude. Where to turn for the truth? Ask, with a humble heart, listen deeply, and the answers will come. “The music initially sprang out of a new synth I was discovering—the Dave Smith/Tom Oberheim OB-6 featured on several tracks,” Mehldau continues. “I built up many of the tracks beginning with synths and Mark Guiliana on drums, in a process similar to our previous collaboration,Taming the Dragon. Layers were added, and the human voice became an important element—not with text, but as a pure expression of harmony and emotion. I worked with singers I’ve admired and been close to over the past several years—Becca Stevens, Kurt Elling, and Gabriel Kahane —and sang myself as well. Strings and winds were added and the project became more orchestral, with features from stellar musicians: trumpet player Ambrose Akinmusire, tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, and violinist Sara Caswell. “A new experience for me on three of the tracks was to go the opposite as well—doing everything as a one-man band. Both the collaborations and solo flights were a learning experience and full of discovery. John Davis, who engineered and mixed the record, was an integral player from beginning to end at Bunker Studios in Brooklyn, creatively contributing to the sonic landscape and finally putting all the pieces together.” Although Brad Mehldau is best known as a jazz composer and improviser, he has made several albums that fall outside of the mainstream jazz genre, including his 2001 Largo, produced by Jon Brion. Wide-ranging in texture and big in scale, it features woodwind or brass ensembles are on several tracks, as well as a heavy emphasis on powerful drums. In 2010, Nonesuch released his second collaboration with Brion, Highway Rider, which includes performances by Mehldau’s trio—drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier—as well as drummer Matt Chamberlain, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Mehldau also orchestrated and arranged the album’s fifteen pieces for the ensemble. Mehldau’s 2014 collaboration with Mark Guiliana, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon was praised byAll About Jazz as “another superlative effort in the career of a pianist who has been consistent in his commitment to excellence and genre-defying creativity—and one that shines a major spotlight on the stylistically unbound and similarly forward-thinking Guiliana.” Mehliana featured Mehldau on Fender Rhodes and synthesizers and Guiliana on drums and effects, playing twelve original tunes—six by the duo and six by Mehldau. The 2004 solo disc Live in Tokyo was Mehldau’s label debut. He has released seven albums with his trio: House on Hill, Day Is Done, Brad Mehldau Trio Live, Ode, Where Do You Start, Blues and Ballads, and last year’s Grammy–nominated Seymour Reads the Constitution! Also released last year was the solo album After Bach, which comprises the pianist/composer’s recordings of four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, each followed by an “After Bach” piece written by Mehldau and inspired by its WTC mate. Mehldau’s additional collaborative records on the label include Love Sublime, Metheny Mehldau, Metheny Mehldau Quartet, Modern Music, Nearness with Joshua Redman, and Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau. His solo records also include Live in Marciac and the eight-LP/four-CD 10 Years Solo Live, which the New York Times says “contains some of the most impressive pianism he has captured on record.” Brad Mehldau Finding Gabriel 1. The Garden Becca Stevens - voice Gabriel Kahane - voice Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet, solo Michael Thomas - flute, alto sax Charles Pillow - soprano sax, alto sax, bass clarinet Joel Frahm – tenor sax Chris Cheek - tenor sax, baritone sax Brad Mehldau - OB-6 Polyphonic synthesizer, Therevox, Moog Little Phatty synthesizer, Steinway C grand piano, voice Mark Guiliana - drums 2. Born to Trouble “For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” –Job 5. 6-7Brad Mehldau - voices, OB-6, Little Phatty, Yamaha upright piano, Steinway C grand piano, drums 3. Striving After Wind “I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.” –Ecclesiastes 1.1 4 Becca Stevens - voice Gabriel Kahane - voice Brad Mehldau - OB-6, Fender Rhodes, Little Phatty Mark Guiliana - electronic drums 4. O Ephraim “What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.” –Hosea 6.4 Brad Mehldau - voices, OB-6, Fender Rhodes, piano, Musser Ampli-Celeste, Morfbeats gamelan strips, drums 5. St. Mark Is Howling in the City of Night Becca Stevens - voice Gabriel Kahane - voice Sara Caswell - violin Lois Martin - viola Noah Hoffeld - cello Brad Mehldau - OB-6, piano, voice Mark Guiliana - drums, electronic drums 6. The Prophet Is a Fool “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.” –Hosea 9.7 Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet, last solo Michael Thomas – flute, alto sax Charles Pillow – soprano sax Joel Frahm – tenor sax, first and second solos Chris Cheek - baritone sax Brad Mehldau - Therevox, OB-6, xylophone, piano Mark Guiliana - drums 7. Make It All Go Away Becca Stevens - voice Kurt Elling - voice Brad Mehldau - OB-6, Little Phatty, piano Mark Guiliana - drums 8. Deep Water “Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck, I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.” –Psalms 69.1-3 Becca Stevens - voice Gabriel Kahane - voice Sara Caswell - violin, end solo Lois Martin - viola Noah Hoffeld - cello Brad Mehldau - piano, OB-6 Mark Guiliana - drums 9. Proverb of Ashes “Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.” –Job 13.12 “Snorts” Malibu – opening voice Kurt Elling - voice, middle solo Brad Mehldau - OB-6, Little Phatty, Therevox, piano, ending voices Mark Guiliana - drums Aaron Nevezie - Korg Kaoss Pad 10. Finding Gabriel “At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.” –Daniel 9.23 Brad Mehldau – voices, Little Phatty, Yamaha CS-60 synth, Therevox, Mellotron, Hammond B-3 organ, piano, shaker, handclaps, drums # # # #

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1. Paul Bley - Mazatlan 11:35 2. Paul Bley - Flame 05:37 3. Paul Bley - Told You So 09:48 4. Gary Peacock - Moor 07:14 5. Paul Bley - Longer 05:33 6. Paul Bley - Dialogue Amour 06:01 7. Ornette Coleman - When Will The Blues Leave 05:26 8. George and Ira Gershwin / Du Bose Heyward - I Loves You, Porgy 04:56 ECM Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian When Will The Blues Leave Paul Bley: piano Gary Peacock: double bass Paul Motian: drums Digital release date: May 31, 2019 CD release date: June 7, 2019 ECM 2642 B0030293-02 UPC: 6025 774 0423 8 “If music is conversation then questions will come up because in conversation there are many questions. Questions lead to answers, which lead to more questions. That is what makes the music continue: the questions and their answers.” Paul Bley When Will The Blues Leave, a previously unreleased recording rescued from the archives, bears testimony to the special musical understanding shared by three great improvisers. Long acknowledged by creative musicians as one of the influential groups of the ‘free’ era, Paul Bley’s pioneering trio with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian has been under-represented on record. A 1963 session with this trio formed part of the album Paul Bley with Gary Peacock, which ECM released in 1970, and a 1964 recording on which the three musicians were joined by saxophonist John Gilmore was issued in the mid-70s on Bley’s IAI label. Over the years there were recordings which presented the pianist either with Motian or with Peacock, as well as albums that featured the drummer and bassist in other contexts. But it wasn’t until 1998 that all three protagonists came together again, at Gary’s suggestion, for the ECM recording Not Two, Not One. On its release the following year, the reunited trio of Bley, Peacock and Motian played concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, and we are very pleased to present now this live album, drawn from a performance at Lugano’s Aula Magna in March 1999, which shows the group at the peak of its powers. More than a historical document, it’s also a great-sounding album, one of the finest in Paul’s trio discography. Paul Bley’s tune “Mazatlan”, which long-time Bley followers first encountered on the albumTouching, opens the proceedings and immediately ushers the listener into the trio’s quick-witted world, in which three independent spirits enjoy the fullest range of expression. “The beauty of having a drummer like Paul Motian,” Bley once famously said, “was that you were free to go wherever you wanted. He didn’t play accompaniment. So you didn’t have to worry ‘If I take a left turn will the drummer be able to follow me?’, because Motian had no intention of following you in the first place.” Both Motian and Peacock claim plenty of space inside “Mazatlan” and Bley makes some characteristic explorations of the piano’s lower reaches, with explosive clusters at the deep end. “Flame” burns steadily, with Bley and Peacock developing what might be described as parallel soliloquies. “Told You So” is a reminder of the pianist’s affection for the blues, constant through the fragmentation of its themes. The energetic “When Will The Blues Leave”, taken at a flying clip, is a piece that was introduced into Bley’s repertoire in 1958 when the tune’s composer, Ornette Coleman, was a member (along with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins) of Paul’s legendary quintet at the Hillcrest Club in Los Angeles. It can also be heard on the classic Footloose album and on Paul Bley With Gary Peacock. The latter album also includes Peacock’s “Moor”, a composition the bassist has returned to numerous times, always finding new things to play in it (other versions on ECM include a quartet rendering with Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko and Jack DeJohnette on Voice From The Past-Paradigm, and a recent trio interpretation with Marc Copland and Joey Baron on Now This). Here, “Moor” begins as a robust bass solo, which gradually draws Motian’s drums and Bley’s piano into its orbit. These musicians were never inclined to play anything the same way twice, and “Dialogue Amour”, introduced a year earlier on Not Two, Not One, is transformed in the Lugano performance, with both Peacock and Bley free associating as the piece unfolds. At one point, Paul quotes from “Ornithology” by Charlie Parker (just one of the many giants Bley played with along the way). In the trio’s first collaborations in the early 1960s, the emphasis had been on original material as a doorway to free playing, but by the 1990s all three musicians, in their various projects, had re-embraced standard repertoire as well. The concluding piece here, Gershwin’s “I Loves You, Porgy” is another fascinating performance, with Bley at first surrendering to its romantic atmosphere, then splintering and abstracting the melody, driven – as he always was – to make the music new. *** Further ECM recordings with Paul Bley and Paul Motian include Fragments and The Paul Bley Quartet recorded, respectively, in 1986 and 1987, with a group completed by John Surman and Bill Frisell. In addition to albums mentioned above, Bley and Gary Peacock can be heard together on Ballads (recorded 1967), John Surman’s Adventure Playground (1991) and In The Evenings Out There (also 1991), jointly credited to Bley, Peacock, Surman and Tony Oxley. Gary Peacock and Paul Motian can be heard together with Keith Jarrett on the album At The Deer Head Inn (1992), and on recordings by Marilyn Crispell including Nothing ever was, anyway (1996) - featuring music Annette Peacock originally wrote for Paul Bley’s groups – andAmaryllis (2000). Paul Bley’s last recording for ECM was the live solo album Play Blue, recorded at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2008. Paul Motian’s final recording as a leader for the label was Lost In A Dream, recorded 2009, with Chris Potter and Jason Moran. Motian died in 2011, Bley in 2016. Gary Peacock continues to record new music. Following the dissolution of Keith Jarrett’s ‘Standards’ trio (of which Gary was a member for 30 years), Peacock’s priorities have included his own group with Marc Copland and Joey Baron (albums are Tangents and Now This) and a duo with Marilyn Crispell (documented on Azure). 1. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Nimbus 05:13 2. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Flood 04:21 3. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - What Floats Beneath 05:43 4. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Lost River 04:45 5. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Styx 02:51 6. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Night Sea Journey 05:43 7. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Fluvius 06:25 8. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - What The Water Brings 05:45 9. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Flotsam 01:27 10. Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Wadi 02:00 ECM Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset Lost River Michele Rabbia: percussion, electronics Gianluca Petrella: trombone, sounds Eivind Aarset: guitar, electronics Digital release date: May 31, 2019 CD release date: June 7, 2019 ECM 2609 B0030294-02 UPC: 6025 774 5607 7 Lost River is an evocative and richly-textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also worked with trombonist Gianluca Petrella in other contexts, but this recording marks a premiere for the trio, brought together at the suggestion of producer Manfred Eicher. Spontaneously improvised for the most part, and with mysterious detail flowering inside its soundscapes, Lost River keeps revealing new forms. Rabbia’s drumming is freely creative and propulsive, and enhanced through his use of electronics. Aarset’s flowing playing will intrigue listeners who have enjoyed his Dream Logic project and his contribution to recordings with Tigran Hamasyan, Andy Sheppard, Jon Hassell and Nils Petter Molvӕr (if Lost Rivers belongs to a tributary or subset of ECM recordings, it is one that includes Khmer). And Petrella’s role as a central instrumental voice here may surprise those who know him only as a great “jazz” soloist with Enrico Rava and Giovanni Guidi; his broad range is well-deployed in Eicher’s widescreen production on this recording, made in Udine in January 2018. All three players – Rabbia, Petrella and Aarset - share an interest in electronic music as a means for conveying or enhancing emotional expression and for shaping the environments and atmospheres in which instrumental interaction, melodic development and the coloring of sound can take place. *** Michele Rabbia was born in Turin in 1965. He studied drums firstly with Enrico Lucchini in Italy and subsequently in the US with Joe Hunt and Alan Dawson. He has worked with a huge cast of musicians, with collaborators including Marilyn Crispell, Vincent Courtois, Roscoe Mitchell, Andy Sheppard and Dominique Pifarély. Rabbia has previously appeared on ECM recordings with Stefano Battaglia including Raccolto (recorded 2003), Re: Pasolini (2005), and Pastorale(2009). With Maria Pia De Vito, François Couturier and Anja Lechner, he is a founder member of the group Il Pergolese, whose eponymous debut album (2012) draws freely upon compositions of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Born in Bari in the South of Italy in 1975, Gianluca Petrella took up the trombone at the age of 10, following in the footsteps of his father, also a trombonist. The younger Petrella immersed himself in the history of jazz, exploring its mutating styles while also keeping an ear open to the sounds of the city. Recognized now as one of the important figures in the new Italian jazz, he is also interested in contemporary composition, R & B and the roots of hip hop, film music and more. He has performed with Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer, leads several bands of his own, and has created soundtracks for movies. A co-leader on the ECM album Ida Lupino(recorded 2015), with Giovanni Guidi, Louis Sclavis and Gerald Cleaver, Petrella can also be heard on four records for the label with Enrico Rava - Easy Living (2003), The Words and the Days (2005), Tribe (2019), and Wild Dance (2015) - and as a member of the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Paolo Damiani on Charmediterranéan (2001). Eivind Aarset, born in Kolbotn, Norway in 1961, started playing guitar at the age of 12, inspired initially by Jimi Hendrix. Other early influences included fellow Norwegian Terje Rypdal and Pete Cosey with Miles Davis’s Agharta group. Aarset has helped to shape a new role for the electric guitar in creative music, working in an almost painterly way with texture and color and atmosphere. Eivind’s ECM album Dream Logic was recorded in 2011 and 2012. It was followed by Atmosphères (2014) with an improvising quartet with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang. Other ECM recordings with Eivind include Nils Petter Molvӕr’s influential Khmer(1996-97) and Solid Ether (1999) , Small Labyrinths (1994) with Marilyn Mazur’s Future Song, Arild Andersen’s Electra (2002-03), Arve Heriksen’s Cartography (2005-06), John Hassell’s Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street (2008), Ketil Bjørnstad’s La Notte(2010), Food’s Mercurial Balm (2010-11), Michel Benita’s River Silver (2015), and three albums with Andy Sheppard: Movements In Colour (2008), Surrounded by Sea (2014) and Romaria (2017).

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ECM NEW SERIES Keith Jarrett J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I Keith Jarrett: piano Release Date: June 14, 2019 ECM 2627/28 B0030055-02 UPC: 0289 481 8016 5 (2-CD SET) In February 1987, Keith Jarrett recorded, on piano, the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was the first in a series of lauded Bach discs that Jarrett would make for ECM. On March 7, 1987, prior to the release of the studio set, he performed the complete WTC Book I for an audience in upstate New York at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, a venue renowned for its beautiful acoustics. With this release, ECM is presenting an archival live recording of this concert for the first time. When his studio album of the WTC Book I was released, Jarrett’s manner in these iconic preludes and fugues surprised many listeners with its poetic restraint, given his renown as a jazz improvisor. But the pianist was deeply attuned to what he called “the process of thought” in Bach; by not imposing his personality unduly on the music, Jarrett allowed the score to shine via the natural lyricism of the contrapuntal melodic lines, the dance-like pulse of the rhythmic flow. These qualities are strikingly apparent in the live recording, with its added electricity of a concert performance. Jarrett has explored the classical repertoire for ECM New Series with a depth and breadth that few jazz artists have ever attempted. He has surveyed much other solo keyboard music by Bach, including the WTC Book II, Goldberg Variations and French Suites, all on harpsichord. He also recorded, on harpsichord, Bach chamber pieces with violist Kim Kashkashian and, on piano, Bach sonatas with violinist Michelle Makarski. In league with violinist Gidon Kremer, Jarrett recorded the reference version of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, which appeared on the disc Tabula Rasa, the very first ECM New Series release, in 1984. The pianist also recorded two volumes of concertos by Mozart, as well as concertos by Bela Bartók and Samuel Barber. On solo piano, Jarrett has ranged, to great acclaim, from Handel’s keyboard suites to Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87. Reviewing Jarrett’s 1992 Shostakovich set, The New York Times declared: “Even in our multicultural, multistylistic age, it is still extremely difficult to cross over from one field to another. Mr. Jarrett, having long since established himself in jazz, can now be called a classical pianist of the first rank.” J.S. Bach composed The Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846-893) as a collection of two books of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, the music as sublimely expressive as it is acutely instructive. He compiled Book I in 1722, at age 37, while working in Köthen, Germany (with Book II completed two decades later, in Leipzig); the WTC wasn’t published until 1801, nearly a half-century after Bach’s death. Down through the ages, this music has been a signal influence on composers from Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin to Brahms, Shostakovich and beyond. As for the score’s interpreters, since Edwin Fischer made the first complete recording of the WTC, in the 1930s, it has been ventured on disc by keyboardists of every stripe, from the romantic to the authenticist – and all stylistic gradations in between. Gramophone magazine, reviewing Jarrett’s studio recording of the WTC Book I, said: “These are performances in which tempos, phrasing, articulation and the execution of ornaments are convincing. Both instrument and performer serve as unobtrusive media through which the music emerges without enhancement.” Discussing Bach in the booklet essay for that studio recording, Jarrett said this about his subtle approach to the composer’s music: “This music does not need my assistance. The melodic lines themselves are expressive to me… The very direction of the lines, the moving lines of notes are inherently expressive.” In a 1994 interview with Fanfare magazine, Jarrett linked his playing of Bach with his background as an improviser in one key aspect: “When you’re an improviser, there’s a certain shimmer to the motion of things. It’s a dance.” *** Born in May 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett has recorded for ECM since 1971, when he and producer Manfred Eicher first collaborated on the widely influential solo piano album Facing You, eight short pieces that, in Eicher’s words, “hold together like a suite.” The album prefigured the solo piano concerts that would come to be such a defining aspect of Jarrett’s career. His vast ECM discography now encompasses solo improvisation, duets, trios, quartets, original compositions, multi-instrumental ventures, masterpieces of the classical repertoire and far-reaching explorations of the Great American Songbook. In 1973, ECM organized an 18-concert European tour featuring Jarrett’s concerts of solo improvisations. The Köln Concert of 1975 has unsurprisingly passed into legend: a multimillion-selling album that has been the subject of books and a complete transcription. But The Köln Concert should not eclipse Jarrett’s achievement with a whole sequence of improvised concerts, a genre that he effectively created. After the success of that initial solo tour, the pianist has continued to pursue the improvised solo concert format, the decades of his career studded with recordings of his ever-fertile imagination, usually titled simply by where they took place: Paris, Vienna, Lausanne, Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Rio... Jarrett has also led several outstanding groups. In the mid-’70s, the pianist began recording for ECM with his so-called “European Quartet,” featuring saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Jon Christensen. No less essential is his contemporaneous “American Quartet,” with saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian. And in the early ’80s, Jarrett formed his hugely popular “Standards Trio” with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, which proved to be one of the most prolific and enduring partnerships in the history of jazz.

Joe Lovano May 3 Detroit, MI (Detroit Orchestra Hall) May 4 Kalamazoo, MI (Dalton Center Recital Hall) Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry w/Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi May 21-26 New York, NY (Village Vanguard) Vijay Iyer May 7 Davis, CA (Mondavi Center) May 8 Colorado Springs, CO (Schockley-Zalabak Theater) May 9 Denver, CO (June Swaner Gates Concert Hall) May 10-11 Northridge, CA (The Soroya – CSUN) May 18 Victoriaville, QUE (Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville) Chris Potter Imaginary Cities May 17 Chicago, IL (Logan Center for the Arts) Till Fellner May 19 New York, NY (Geffen Hall Great Performances) Barre Phillips May 20 New York, NY (Zürcher Gallery) May 25 Brookyn, NY (I-Beam) Meredith Monk May 23 New York, NY (Jewish Museum) Alexei Luminov May 30 New York, NY (Baryshnikov Arts Center) Carla Bley Trio May 31 Charleston, SC (Spoleto Festival) ECM Focus At Healdsburg Festival May 31st – June 2nd Ralph Towner Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matt Garrison Carla Bley Trio Mark Turner / Ethan Iverson © 2019 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

In 2019 ECM celebrates fifty years of continuous independent music production, an anniversary which prompts reflections upon the journey so far. TheTouchstones series of reissues highlights albums made along the way and includes many recordings which now count as milestones in the history of jazz and improvisation. Click here to explore all 50 titles © 2019 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.  “Schiff responds intuitively to the wandering, intimate thoughts in these sonatas and impromptus from the end of Schubert’s life. So, uniquely, does Schiff’s gentle piano: perfect for leading the listener into the heart of this extraordinary music” - Geoff Brown, The Times In the latest chapter in András Schiff’s ongoing documentation of Franz Schubert’s music, the great pianist plays the Four Impromptus D 899, and compositions from 1828, the last year of Schubert’s too brief life: The Three Pieces D 946 (“impromptus in all but name” notes Misha Donat in the CD booklet), the C minor Sonata D 958 and the A major Sonata D 959. Schiff again chooses to use his fortepiano made by Franz Brodmann in Vienna, around 1820. “It is to me ideally suited to Schubert’s keyboard works,” he has said. There is something quintessentially Viennese in its timbre, its tender mellowness, its melancholic cantabilità.” Critics have agreed, unanimous also in their praise of Schiff’s interpretations: “I cannot think of anyone of his caliber who has mastered the fortepiano as well as the modern piano and shown such distinction on both,” wrote Stephen Plaistow in an Editor’s Choice review in Gramophone. “In Schubert Schiff has a claim to be considered sovereign among today’s players, carrying forward the reading and interpretation of him into areas that others have not fully explored.” LISTEN / BUY © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

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Guitarist Bobby Broom Joins Faculty at Northern Illinois University School of Music Broom Plans Live Recording with His Group The Organi-Sation -- Organist Ben Paterson & Drummer Kobie Watkins -- And Producer Steve Jordan May 17, 2019 Renowned jazz guitarist Bobby Broom has been appointed assistant professor of music in the Northern Illinois University School of Music. He will teach jazz guitar and improvisation in the school's nationally recognized Jazz Studies Program. "I'm thrilled and honored to assume this position at Northern Illinois University," Broom said. "I'm looking forward to sharing with my students, colleagues, and the community all that I've gleaned throughout my life and career of making music with many of the 20th century's jazz masters. I'm so pleased by the prospect of continuing my work in musical expression and jazz guitar studies under the auspices and with the support of NIU." Broom holds a Master's of Music degree in jazz pedagogy from Northwestern University, and has taught at the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music, DePaul University, North Park University, and Chicago's American Conservatory of Music. He conducts clinics, master classes, and lectures nationwide and abroad, is a teaching artist with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and has been a Ravinia Jazz Mentor to Chicago Public School students for more than 18 years. Broom has written guest editorial and instructional pieces for national magazines DownBeat, JazzTimes, and Jazziz. Broom's latest recording, Soul Fingers (2018), is with his new organ group, the Bobby Broom Organi-Sation, which was the opening act for Steely Dan's 50-city North American tour in 2014. Produced by the legendary drummer/producer Steve Jordan, the CD is arguably Bobby's most ambitious to date. Bobby once again revisits the music of his youth, this time employing a wide range of instrumental palettes, in addition to palpable group interplay and his own always soulful and singularly personal guitar sound and style. For his next album, The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation: Live in America!, Broom will reconvene the band and producer Jordan, featuring the trio in two different stage environments. Half the record will be comprised of concert performances from the opening-act sets of the 2014 Steely Dan tour. The other half will be recorded June 7-8 during the Organi-Sation's upcoming week (June 6-9) at Chicago's famed Jazz Showcase. "After hearing the excitement of some of the shows we did opening for Steely Dan," says Broom, "I was compelled to move in this live album direction. It will present both the more intimate club setting and the power-packed concert environment." "We're pleased to have Steve Jordan with us again to assume production duties," Broom adds. When asked what it is Jordan likes about working with the group, the drummer replied: "I love it! This is one of my favorite bands in any genre, because of their great musicianship." The Organi-Sation recently performed to a live studio audience for a new jazz TV series produced by East Tennessee PBS, the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, and the Audio Production Engineering department at Pellissippi State Community College. The seven-episode series, called "Live at Lucille's," will also feature performances by Christian Sands, Gregory Tardy with Bill Frisell, and guitarist Mark Boling (among others). The debut show, with the Organi-Sation's performance, will air on East Tennessee PBS on Friday, June 14 at 11pm. For those outside of the viewing area, the entire show will be available online through the PBS Passport app. Heralded as "one of the most musical guitarists of our times" by author and jazz critic Ted Gioia, Bobby Broom was born on New York City's Upper West Side and took up guitar at the age of 12. Just five years later, he made his first appearance at Carnegie Hall, playing with Sonny Rollins and Donald Byrd. He relocated to Chicago in the 1980s and has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a performer and educator. Broom has spent the new millennium focusing on his musical output as a leader. He has recorded with both his Bobby Broom Trio and the now-disbanded Deep Blue Organ Trio for the Premonition, Delmark, and Origin labels. His The Way I Play was released in 2008 and Plays for Monk in 2009; Deep Blue's Folk Music came out in 2007, Wonderful! in 2011. Bobby was recognized as one of the top guitarists in DownBeat magazine's annual Readers' Poll (2015) as well as their Critics' Poll (2012-2014 and 2017). His ongoing work with the Organi-Sation is but the latest chapter in his extraordinary jazz career. Photo: John Broughton Live at Lucille's: Bobby Broom Organi-Sation | Ode to Billy Joe Web Site: bobbybroom.com

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