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"I decided to choose from my own bands over the years," guitarist John Abercrombie says, "as well as ongoing collectives such as the duo with Ralph Towner, the Gateway trio with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland, and the Kenny Wheeler Quintet. I also was looking at this in a chronological way, as it seemed to put things in a perspective for me, tracing development in terms of performance and concept." It's been a 30-year journey packed with invention, from "Timeless" with Jan Hammer to "Cat'n'Mouse" with Mark Feldman and friends.
Since 1969, ECM albums have been acclaimed for outstanding music, creative production and exceptional sound quality. Many of the musicians embraced by the :rarum series are amongst the most important improvisers of our era. The richness and diversity of their work on ECM continues to resonate and has changed the way jazz is heard today.
The :rarum series builds into a superlative "library" of jazz on ECM. The first eight :rarum anthologies were released, to international acclaim, in 2002: "It's over 30 years since the first ECM recording was made and under the stewardship of Manfred Eicher's astute musical sensibilities a catalogue of some 800 recordings has accumulated some of the finest jazz recorded during the second half of the 20th century... Selected by the artists themselves, the :rarum series is of enormous importance in revealing the breadth of each artist's work, as much for the converted as the unconverted looking for a window into the remarkable ECM catalogue." - Stuart Nicholson, BBC Music Magazine
Recorded 1974-2000
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That being said, I agree with thx1138b's review of the album which declares that as the house guitarist of the label for more than 3 decades, he deserves a double album just as much as Keith Jarrett and Jan Garberek have. The record fits 10 tracks/80 minutes of music on one disc. I myself am basically discovering Abercrombie and I figure that this should be the first album to buy. Several of the tracks are flawless: Stray from the John Abercrombie Quartet (Is this in print?) album features John on mandolin guitar giving the up-tempo waltz a bright contrast to the dreamy, darker tones of Richie Beirach. Carol's Carol, a tune from the Dan Wall-Adam Nussbaum trio gets the same feel as the more well know organ trio of Scofield-Larry Goldings-Bill Stewart and has some firey soloing when Abercrombie cranks up the overdrive (Imagine Hendrix meets Jim Hall). Abercrombie also proves himself as a spellbinding acoustic player when performing duets with Ralph Towner on Avenue or solo on Memoir. My favorite track on the album is Homecoming featuring the Gateway trio of Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette (How can you go wrong?) that goes from free to Holland cranking out some hard swingin walking lines over Abercrombie's pedal tones.
All in all, this album is a good overview of John Abercrombie's career on ECM, though because of a 30-year relationship with Manfred Eicher and the label's many artists, one wonders why he was restricted to a single disc of music.
The first piece is "Timeless", actually the first tune with Abercrombie as a leader. It sure lives up to its title with its slow, universal beat and melancholic guitar and organ. The next piece, "Sorcery I" is a trio recording with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, and if "Timeless" was a little slow for some listeners, "Sorcery I" will definetely wake you up. It's powerful free playing as free power playing should be. As to show all his potentiel in the least amount of time, the next piece is a guitar duo with Ralph Towner, and the piece after that is the solo tune "Memoir", composed by Abercrombie. Piece 5-10 is also diversely selected; a quartet, another trio, a quintet, yet another trio, the Holland-DeJohnette trio again, and finally another quartet.
After hearing what John Abercrombie sounds like, I have wanted to hear more of this kind of music. And these Rarum collections is a good way to find out what to buy, so what I'm saying is just that this release is worth buying if you're new to Abercrombie's music.
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