ECM Special VII: New Music in Piano

🫧 Open on Bubbles For its seventh installment in the Japan-only ECM Special series, Trio Records finally dedicated a compilation to “New Music in Piano.” The expected constellation is present. Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley occupy familiar zones of gravity, while Steve Kuhn moves nearby with his own restless voltage. Yet the album’s first door opens in a particularly inspired direction: Stanley Cowell’s Illusion Suite , represented by the luminous “Ibn Mukhtarr Mustapha.” Cowell moves between acoustic and elec