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Originally Posted by The Watcher
Any favorites? I'm a big fan of Dave Holland's Conference Of The Birds LP, as well as Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation 1, 2 & 3 which I thought was one of the best records I've bought in the last few years, not to mention the Codona trilogy with Don Cherry which I think is fantastic, and I really like Tabula Rasa from Arvo Part........ and I've picked up a few records here and there in the used bins from Terje Rypdal, Eberhard Weber and others which are really cool, and I plan to pick up some others, like the Evan Parker concert series and Marilyn Crispell's work......
That guy Keith Jarrett is okay too, but I'm not in love with him or anything.
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If you like Roscoe Mitchell stuff, that album has a sister album called Boustrophedon by Evan Parker. It's the same group, in the same session, just with different charts and with Parker conducting. It's just as good.
Some favourites:
Tomasz Stanko- Leosia
Paul Motian- Time and Time Again
John Abercrombie- The Third Quartet <MUST LISTEN>
Bobo Stenson- Goodbye/War Orphans
ECM is a pretty consistently amazing label for something so 'mainstream' by some standards... there's a bit of easy listening stuff on there, but there is a whole heap of geniunely groundbreaking music. Some albums, like Keith Jarrett's Carnegie Hall Concert, will be analysed for the next 30-40 years to figure out what he's doing. I can't think of anyone who has created anything similar to that out of a piano.. it's a whole new language.