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Time and Time Again

by: Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano

Release Date February 26, 2007
Paul Motian is one of the greatest jazz drummers, but he is also a great leader and composer as well. Motian was the drummer in Bill Evans' most celebrated trio (with Scott LaFaro on bass) and in Keith Jarrett's US quartet. In my opinion he has built up a body of work as a leader as good as the work of either of those great groups.

This trio, with Bill Frisell on guitar and Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone, has released several excellent albums, most recently 2005's 'I Have the Room Above Her'. With 'Time and Time Again' they adopt a similarly light, subtle style, but take it further. The rhythm here is barely stated at all, giving the music a floating quality, and allowing Motian to use his drums very imaginatively. Frisell's guitar ... Read More:

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Goodbye

by: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Paul Motian

Release Date September 26, 2005
Paul Motian is one of the greatest jazz drummers, but he is also a great leader and composer as well. Motian was the drummer in Bill Evans' most celebrated trio (with Scott LaFaro on bass) and in Keith Jarrett's US quartet. In my opinion he has built up a body of work as a leader as good as the work of either of those great groups.

This trio, with Bill Frisell on guitar and Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone, has released several excellent albums, most recently 2005's 'I Have the Room Above Her'. With 'Time and Time Again' they adopt a similarly light, subtle style, but take it further. The rhythm here is barely stated at all, giving the music a floating quality, and allowing Motian to use his drums very imaginatively. Frisell's guitar ... Read More:

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Conception Vessel

by: Paul Motian

Release Date September 22, 2008
Paul Motian is one of the greatest jazz drummers, but he is also a great leader and composer as well. Motian was the drummer in Bill Evans' most celebrated trio (with Scott LaFaro on bass) and in Keith Jarrett's US quartet. In my opinion he has built up a body of work as a leader as good as the work of either of those great groups.

This trio, with Bill Frisell on guitar and Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone, has released several excellent albums, most recently 2005's 'I Have the Room Above Her'. With 'Time and Time Again' they adopt a similarly light, subtle style, but take it further. The rhythm here is barely stated at all, giving the music a floating quality, and allowing Motian to use his drums very imaginatively. Frisell's guitar ... Read More:

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I Have the Room Above Her

by: Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano

Release Date January 31, 2005
This is first and foremost an album of great lyrical beauty. There are no egos on display here. Though Lovano and Frisell are bright luminaries in the jazz firmament in their own right, they give it their all in the service of Motian's compositions (as well as the title track by Kern/Hammerstein and a Monk piece). When necessary, they play with gorgeous restraint; and I hope it doesn't sound fanciful to say that silence is a fourth player in this band. It's one of the great things about jazz that the master musicians are quite prepared to produce their very finest playing for others: so if you are a Lovano or a Frisell fan, don't hesitate. As for Paul Motian, if you are new to him, then treat yourself both to this superlative CD, and to the excellent ... Read More:

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Bill Frisell Ron Carter Paul Motian

by: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

Release Date October 23, 2006
classic frisell, great touch, so many styles, so much talent, and he doesn't seem to try too hard.......he's the most underestimated guitarist of the lot......

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Garden of Eden

by: Paul Motian

Release Date February 06, 2006
classic frisell, great touch, so many styles, so much talent, and he doesn't seem to try too hard.......he's the most underestimated guitarist of the lot......

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Survivors' Suite

by: Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian

Release Date July 01, 1988
In my CD collection, I have many from the 70s and 80s whose qualities diminish each time I pull them out for another spin. ("What on earth did I see in that one??" is a familiar lament.)

Not the SURVIVOR'S SUITE. I must have played it a thousand times over the years, and each time I hear new things in this outstanding album. It's the usual purchase history: taped it off a friend at uni in 1977, persuaded my brother to buy it on LP in the vac, bought my own copy of the CD in the 80s, still waiting for ECM to reissue on SACD (or at least remastered) in the 00s.

Not for nothing was this voted the Medlody Maker's Jazz Album of the Year in 1977.

I just finished playing it again today, and my area of intrigue is another ... Read More:

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Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.2

by: Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two

Release Date July 28, 2008
In my CD collection, I have many from the 70s and 80s whose qualities diminish each time I pull them out for another spin. ("What on earth did I see in that one??" is a familiar lament.)

Not the SURVIVOR'S SUITE. I must have played it a thousand times over the years, and each time I hear new things in this outstanding album. It's the usual purchase history: taped it off a friend at uni in 1977, persuaded my brother to buy it on LP in the vac, bought my own copy of the CD in the 80s, still waiting for ECM to reissue on SACD (or at least remastered) in the 00s.

Not for nothing was this voted the Medlody Maker's Jazz Album of the Year in 1977.

I just finished playing it again today, and my area of intrigue is another ... Read More:

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Conception Vessel

by: Paul Motian, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden

Release Date June 28, 1993
In my CD collection, I have many from the 70s and 80s whose qualities diminish each time I pull them out for another spin. ("What on earth did I see in that one??" is a familiar lament.)

Not the SURVIVOR'S SUITE. I must have played it a thousand times over the years, and each time I hear new things in this outstanding album. It's the usual purchase history: taped it off a friend at uni in 1977, persuaded my brother to buy it on LP in the vac, bought my own copy of the CD in the 80s, still waiting for ECM to reissue on SACD (or at least remastered) in the 00s.

Not for nothing was this voted the Medlody Maker's Jazz Album of the Year in 1977.

I just finished playing it again today, and my area of intrigue is another ... Read More:

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Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.1

by: Paul Motian

Release Date July 09, 2007
In my CD collection, I have many from the 70s and 80s whose qualities diminish each time I pull them out for another spin. ("What on earth did I see in that one??" is a familiar lament.)

Not the SURVIVOR'S SUITE. I must have played it a thousand times over the years, and each time I hear new things in this outstanding album. It's the usual purchase history: taped it off a friend at uni in 1977, persuaded my brother to buy it on LP in the vac, bought my own copy of the CD in the 80s, still waiting for ECM to reissue on SACD (or at least remastered) in the 00s.

Not for nothing was this voted the Medlody Maker's Jazz Album of the Year in 1977.

I just finished playing it again today, and my area of intrigue is another ... Read More: