John Surman
Word Unspoken [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2024 ] Hypnotic and many of its antonyms-stimulating, arousing, reviving-are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music... |
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
John Surman, John Warren
Tales Of The Algonquin (2022 Remastered LP) [ Deram / Decca / LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] Reissued on vinyl as a limited print run with thick card 'flip-back' laminated sleeve plus a 12x12 insert with new in-depth liner notes by Tony Higgins with interviews by Surman, Warren and the album producer Peter Eden. The audio has been lovingly... |
John Surman
Invisible Threads [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Saxophonist and clarinettist John Surman is often characterized as a quintessentially English improviser and composer, and hints of folk music and a pastoral ambience are attributes of his music on well-loved albums like "The Road to Saint Ives" or... |
John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman's improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to... |
Anouar Brahem / John Surman / Dave Holland
Thimar [ ECM Records / CD - released 18/May/1998 ] Recorded March 1997. |
JOHN DOWLAND
In Darkness Let Me Dwell John Potter (tenor) / Maya Homburger (baroque violin) / Stephen Stubbs (lute) / John Surman (soprano saxophone & bass clarinet) / Barry Guy (double ba [ ECM Dowland Project / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] A fascinating project initiated by Hilliard Ensemble tenorist John Potter with producer Manfred Eicher, which re-examines the beautiful songs of the great sixteenth century composer from a present-day perspective. |
JOHN DOWLAND
Romaria John Potter (tenor) / MiloAI Valent (violin, viola) / Stephen Stubbs (lute) / John Surman (soprano saxophone & bass clarinet) [ ECM Dowland Project / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] With a revised line-up, John Potter's Dowland Project expands its repertoire on its third album, freely exploring love songs, chants and motets from the 12th century to the present by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Orlando di Lasso, Josquin Desprez and... |
John Surman
Brewster's Rooster [ ECM / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] After ECM recordings with organ ("Rain on the Window"), strings ("The Spaces In Between"), brass ensemble ("Free and Equal"), choir ("Proverbs and Songs"), and early music experiments with the Dowland Project ("Romaria"). John Surman offers an album... |
John Surman
Private City [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The most popular of John Surman's multi-tracked solo albums, "Private City" includes music originally written for the ballet of the same name, premiered at Sadler's Wells. Recorded in December 1987. |