In addition to a lineup that features Bill Frisell, Richard Thompson, Giddens teaming up with Francesco Turrisi, Nils Frahm, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Mary Halvorson, Jack DeJohnette and many more, Knoxville, TN’s Big Ears Festival has announced an ongoing celebration for the 50th year of ECM Records.
As written in a Big Ears press release, ECM has spent “spent half a century tirelessly pursuing new frontiers and standards of excellence in jazz and classical music.”
“ECM’s ethos for the last 50 years dovetails perfectly with Big Ears’ own principles—and has from the start,” the release later states. “The label has unwavering standards of excellence, using an unmistakable visual identity and rigorous production goals to build a redoubtable aesthetic. ECM has long served as a stable platform for its artists to venture into the unknown, too, to make music that defied the boundaries of safety and expectation within their chosen form.”
For more information – including tickets – visit BigEarsFestival.org.
Check out the full list of ECM performers as well as the full Big Ears lineup below:
ECM Performances: Big Ears 2019
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Arvo Pärt’s Passio performed by St. John’s Choir
Avishai Cohen Quartet
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Carla Bley TRIOS with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
David Torn
DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison
Larry Grenadier
Kim Kashkashian
Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs Concert
Mathias Eick Quintet
Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN
Ralph Towner
Shai Maestro
Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith)
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil
Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn
Wadada Leo Smith’s Nda, performing Divine Love with Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews
Big Ears 2019 Full Lineup
ACME
Alvin Lucier
Avishai Cohen Quartet
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Bill Frisell and the Mesmerists featuring Tony Scheer, Kenny Wollesen and the films of Bill Morrison
Brooklyn Rider
Carl Stone
Carla Bley TRIOS with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
Carla Kihlstedt
Clarice Jensen + Jonathan Turner: For this from that will be filled
Coupler
DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison
Derek Gripper
Evan Parker / Matt Wright Trance Map+
Ever Present Orchestra featuring Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi
Harold Budd
International Contemporary Ensemble performing the work of Carla Kihlstedt, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Ellen Reid, Ashley Fure
Irreversible Entanglements
Jerusalem In My Heart
Jlin
Joan La Barbara: Voice is the Original Instrument
Joep Beving
Kara-Lis Coverdale
Kayhan Kalhor
Kim Kashkashian
Lonnie Holley
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl
Mathias Eick Quintet
Matt Wilson’s Honey & Salt
Mercury Rev
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs
Nashville Ballet: Lucy Negro Redux
Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Paul Vasterling
with music composed and performed by Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
and poetry by Caroline Randall Williams
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Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN
Nils Frahm
Peter Gregson
Rachel Grimes: The Way Forth
Rafiq Bhatia: Breaking English
Ralph Towner
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi
Richard Thompson: Killed in Action
Roomful of Teeth
Schlippenbach Trio
Shai Maestro Trio
Sons of Kemet
Spiritualized
Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith)
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Comet is Coming
The Messthetics
Theo Bleckmann: Berlin – Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile – and – Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush
Thumbscrew
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil
TRIPTYCH: On the Work of Robert Mapplethorpe
Featuring Roomful of Teeth. Composed by Bryce Dessner. Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle feat. the work of Patti Smith & Essex Hemphill. Directed by Daniel Fish
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn
Wadada Leo Smith’s Nda, Performing “Divine Love” With Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews
Wadada Leo Smith Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
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