Truly!

Just want what I was thinking. I have had many,all albums gone,though. I'm am so happy I can find this kind of stuff.

i realize it is kinda off topic but do anyone know a good website to watch newly released movies online?

@Simon Kash Meh I use Flixportal. just search on google after it:) -seth

@Seth Tomas thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it !

Solstice has been a fave of mine since I first stumbled across it in the early eighties, truly a masterpiece...

"they'll excavate shit like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Jay Z...etc, etc... and probably just say - "Let's MOVE-ON! Nothing to see here!" - unless they dig deeper! - WAY DEEP!..." Man, you said it!

Well, ECM was a great project, saving true musicians from big labels, wich didn't treated them properly... till ECM also became a big label. :)

Absolutely!!! You nailed it. The soundtrack to my life, by the most important producer ever to work in music. Incredible. How lucky we really are!

@@victorsethy ECM is no bigger than it ever was. It still does things the way it always did. Its just with the passing of time more records get made and more people listen. Great!

sitting here listening to this group tonight (I come here once and a while) and reading your comment. You know life is always strange and funny who we make our "stars" Ralph Towner is virtually unknown in the music world but he is genius! The word "genius" is casually thrown around these days (as in anyone who does anything is seen as a genius) but look at this music.... the instrumentation, the time signatures, the complex harmonies.... the average person would never see why this is indeed "genius" but it truly is... I know most wouldn't care that I feel almost sorry for them that they think pop music and people like Taylor Swift are great artists and they would never take the time to explore this kind of stuff. I understand that this stuff takes time to get into but its so worth the effort. Again, this is genius at a level of say Bach, Stravinsky etc. This to me is jazz chamber music and its phenomenal.

thank you

He was channeling a kind of Coltrane meets Ravi Shankar sound!!!

@@grantkoeller8911 A broad soaring/roaring sound that could be suble as well like Jim Pepper too!

I'm in total agreement, you're not wrong at all. Along with Towner, I consider Egberto Gismonti to be in the same category of a total genius composer and player, both are among the very best of the 20th century.

@@bayonau We bow to your judgement. 😂

True that!!! I read where he approached his guitar playing from a pianist's perspective. Gee, I wonder if there exists any Paul Winter Consort vids with Ralph at the piano - I'm gonna look that up right now...!

what's is honestly even more incredible about that is that as a "classical guitarist" he uses his nails to activate the strings. It just amazes me that he doesn't break a nail while jamming on the piano or even on the 12 string guitar how that does not just chew his nails up! those things defy physics or something !

@@mikelord9860 Good question. Paul Winter Consort. Good call.

@@uneedtherapy42 If you watch Towner's piano playing here his right hand and particularly his fingers attack the the keys very flatly without the fingernails hitting the keys. I assume he adapted to this style after picking up classical guitar and serious training on it while in his latter days of college and beyond. He spent his first professional years in NYC as a piano sideman with a huge Bill Evans influence. He also protects his finger nails to some extent with a special technique on the 12 string guitar which gives him a distinct 12 string sound. He says he strikes both strings individually instead on the dual strings at the same time. RT calls it a sound similar to a harpsicord. As far as I'm concerned he can call it anything he wants. He is a pioneer in all aspects of his music. His classical guitar playing style and compositions are highly respected by classical guitarists around the world.

The incredible level of talent is amazing at all positions. I call this an "all-star" jazz band. lol The polyrhythmic playing is out of this world too! Manfred Eicher knows so many ways to get much more including the best out of his band recordings as he did w/Solstice. He definitely had the talent to do it with here too.

Gracias por compartir!

Someone said the same a while back: Garbarek is on loan from the Vulcan Music Academy. Look at the back of the Luminessence album for the full Vulcan haircut. en.todocoleccion.net/vinyl-records/keith-jarrett-jan-garbarek-luminessence~x95922975

Highly illogical

Well, he had been making records for a decade by this time, so yeah, he had his sound together by this time for sure.

They re-issued 50 CDs last year. Plus the Art Ensemble box.

Especially with the recent vinyl revival, but also on CD, yes!

BTW, the lack of smiles and shouts from the public are disturbing...

The dislikes are from Hillary Clinton, A.O.C. and that PUTO who's ruining California, Gavin Newsome.

@@jerryvivanco4352 I'd like to know how much great ECM jazz your degenerate orange tyrant and his cult followers like you ever listen to, deaf troll! Tu pobre y pequeno cerebro es lo que esta' podrido! Mudate a Rusia!

@@bayonauRussophobia has no place in jazz you jerk

What the fuck is your problem exactly?

@@brotzmannsax cant travel with that thing

I can dig it... Garbarek is the most conservative player in this band imo. In a music where every player is vulnerable, and must rely on connecting their ears and brains together to form a cohesive unit, more interesting sonic zones can only exist if everyone is gonna go there. This music is striaghter than the shit I'm into, but I'm digging the interplays and textures of the bass, guitar and drums more than Jan's contributions (•‿•). Grateful for the upload!

Who cares lol

@@odysseychl4925 not you I'm guessing