David Darling: violoncello, 8 string electric violoncello

Dino Saluzzi: bandoneon, Marc Johnson: bass, José M.Saluzzi: guitar

Giovanni Guidi: piano
Thomas Morgan: double bass
João Lobo: drums

Collin Walcott: sitar, tabla, John Abercrombie: guitar, Dave Holland: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums

Michael Mantler: trumpet; Bjarne Roupé: guitar; Maximilian Kanzler: vibraphone, marimba; David Helbock: piano Leo Eibensteiner: flute; Peter Tavernaro: oboe; David Lehner; clarinet; Fabian Rucker: bass clarinet; Christoph Walder: french horn; Daniel Riegler: trombone;Simon Teurezbacher: tuba; Joanna Lewis, Ulrike Greuter, Diane Pascal, Tomas Novak, Simon Frick, Maximilian Bratt, Magdalena Zenz, Emily Stewart: violins; Simon Schellnegger, Anna Magdalena Siakala, Daniel Moser, Tamara Stajner: violas; Asja Valcic, Arne Kircher: cellos; Tibor Kövesdi, Philipp Kienberger: basses. Christoph Cech: conductor

Don Cherry: trumpet, doussn’gouni, flutes, organ, melodica, voice, Nana Vasconcelos: berimbau, cuica, talking drum, percussion, voice, Collin Walcott: sitar, tabla, dulcimer, sanza, tympani, voice

This three CD box brings together music recorded for ECM by Eberhard Weber’s band Colours: the albums “Yellow Fields” (1975), “Silent Feet” (1977) and “Little Movements” (1980). Throughout the six years of its existence, Colours was one of the most popular ensembles on the European jazz touring circuit – although Weber has always stressed the group’s conceptual distance from a jazz mainstream. Many idiomatic elements were combined in Colours’ stylistic mix. The group’s sound-world consciously extended the palette proposed by “The Colours of Chlo?”, Weber’s prize-winning ECM disc of 1974. As the innovative German bassist explains in the liner notes, “there were various aspects to the [Chlo?] session, from the reflective European or chamber music side of the writing, to some jazz-rock and a kind of pictorial play with minimalism. Eventually, all these aspects would be developed in Colours.” 

Himiko Paganotti: voice;  Michael Mantler: trumpet;  David Helbock: piano 

Max Brand Ensemble

Annegret Bauerle: flute; Peter Tavernaro: oboe; Gregor Narnhofer: clarinet;  Eberhard Reiter: bass clarinet;  Balduin  Wetter: French horn; Tobias Ennemoser: tuba; Joanna Lewis: violin; Simon Frick: violin; Simon Schellnegger: viola; Arne Kircher: cello; Tibor Kövesdi: bass; Sun Yi: vibraphone, marimba

Conducted by Christoph Cech