Everblue by Yelena Eckemoff

"When pianist Yelena Eckemoff released Cold Sun (L & H Production, 2010) - a trio date with drumming legend Peter Erskine and Danish bass whiz Mads Vinding - the jazz world was introduced to a startlingly fresh voice destined for great things. Over the course of the six albums that followed, Eckemoff lived up to that promise, delivering organically crafted music reflective of her classical background, fascination with the natural world, poetic soul, communicative spirit, and overall open-mindedness. Now, Eckemoff is poised to make even more waves with the spellbinding Everblue, her third in-studio encounter with Norwegian bass icon Arild Andersen and her first musical meeting with two other Norwegians of note - drummer Jon Christensen and saxophonist Tore Brunborg. (from Press Release by Dan Bilawsky, AAJ

"Sure, these musicians bring decades of experience with them, no one can tell them anything. But they do not rest on their laurels, but gratefully accept the offer to present these fantastically intense chapters in sovereign cooperation. Even if the pianist is de facto in charge, the ten pieces are no longer about the compositions as such, but rather about the floating and captivating coexistence of the four." - Ingo J. Biermann

When is an ECM album not an ECM album? New release from Yelena Eckemoff provide compelling answer. On Everblue, Eckemoff’s studio perfectionism fully embraces the elemental instincts of her Norwegian sidemen. The result? A lovingly detailed soundscape and an audiophile’s delight—and a Rainbow Studio production worthy of the august German label it wasn’t issued on! ..Eckemoff’s Everblue is endlessly enjoyable. I urge you to lend this album your ears." - Neil Hobkirk

"As a jazz pianist and composer, Eckemoff retains a classical sensibility in her precise touch and in her systematic, refined, orderly forms. She writes minimalist études of romantic impressionism. The badasses she brings in to help her play them thrive in her measured yet open environments. Six of her releases to date are piano-trio recordings. Those with bassist Arild Andersen contain some of the most powerful, poetic work of his long career. ..For an album so pretty, Everblue is deep." - Thomas Conrad

Yelena Eckemoff is an internationally renowned Russian/American pianist, composer, poet, and visual artist who organically blends classical elements with jazz improvisation in evocative and uniquely distinctive works that strike a delicate balance between through-composed frameworks and open-ended exploration and improvisation.

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