This Sunday Music Muse Day finds me offering two ECM Records selections. First up, Charles Lloyd Life Every Voice, a 2002 ECM release featuring a top-notch group of musicians, including the late John Abercrombie on guitar (one of my favorites) Marc Johnson and Larry Grenadier on double bass, Geri Allen on piano, and Bill Hart on drums. Playing the tenor saxophone, flute, and taragato a woodwind instrument commonly used in Hungarian folk music, Lloyd leads the group through a varied collection of standard, traditional, and popular tunes, managing to keep each fresh and enjoyable.
My second selection is ECM - Selected Signs, a CD of various artists on its roster. Worth listening to for a good sampling of what the label has to offer.
So, with Santa, making a list, and checking it twice, be good to yourself and others, or there'll be coal in your stocking and not a CD of music. ;)
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