ECM Jazz Series At The Wigmore Hall, 4 January 2024

Everything you might want to know about the concert from a Wigmore Hall perspective can be seen on this link.

In the first half, Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella and Eivind Aarset played their unusual style of electronically-enhanced ambient music, mostly pieces from the album Lost River.

Here’s an example piece – Nimbus

One lady in our row, clearly not keen on electronically enhanced jazz, decided not to stick around for the second half. That’s a shame, because it was very different and not electronically enhanced at all.

Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai have been friends since they were kids and the camaraderie really showed. Their set mostly came form the album “Playing The Room”.

Here’s a sample from that:

Here is a live video of them playing a lullaby, which i think they used as their encore:

Not a concert to set your pulse racing, but two very interesting acts and a good way to start concert-going in 2024.

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