Talented, urbane, and well-informed colleagues like John Kelman often make for a difficult act to follow. Kelman has long been the All About Jazz resident expert on all things ECM. Occasionally, his ...
Arvo Pärt's Fratres ("Brethren") dates from 1977 and is an early example of the meditative, mystical style he was developing at the time, known as tintinnabuli (after the Latin word for "bells"). It ...