John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette – Gateway

Description

Luminessence, ECM’s new audiophile vinyl-reissue series, is a kaleidoscope, shedding light on the jewels of the label’s deep cataloguein elegant, high-quality editions – audiophile vinyl pressing, high-gradetip-on gatefold sleeves that include new liner notes.

With “daring and visionary spirit”, to quote a Downbeat review from the year ofthis album’s release, master improvisers John Abercrombie, Dave Holland andJack DeJohnette forged a unique vision of trio interplay on their frst joint effortunder the Gateway moniker. The trio tackles Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnetteoriginals with a visionary idea of what three- way conversations in jazz couldsound like. As The Observer remarked in an article of the time, “the telepathicensemble playing and perfect execution make it difficult to believe that this musicis almost completely improvised”. The players’ respectively unique instrumentalsignatures had already fully crystallised here, hinting at the music to come.

The Luminessence edition of the album arrives in a Tip- on gatefold, completewith previously unseen archival photos and new liner notes by Wilco’s Nels Cline.

“One thing most recordings on the label share in common is the capturing ofspecial moments in real time. That is what “Gateway” is, what it feels like somany years later, for as long as we have ears to listen.” – Nels Cline

John Abercrombie: guitar
Dave Holland: double bass
Jack DeJohnette: drums

Tracklist

1. Back – Woods Song

2. Waiting

3. May Dance

4. Unshielded Desire

5. Jamala

6. Sorcery I