Echoes Podcast Big Ears Festival 2020 & Jon Christensen In Memoriam

Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival.  Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen, the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon us. We talk to founder Ashley Capps as well as Kronos and The Necks about this year’s collection of over 100 artists, which includes Terry Riley, Patti Smith, John Paul Jones, Meredith Monk, William Tyler & Mary Lattimore, and especially, artists you’ve never heard before. Below is a playlist of tracks from the Big Ears Feature. Then we remember Jon Christensen. This past Monday, the rhythm of the world got a little less interesting with his passing. Jon Christensen was a drummer who defined the sound of Norwegian jazz through his more than 70 recordings on ECM records. He was effectively the house drummer playing with Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner and so many others. Now he’s left the planet, stroking his last cymbal on February 18, 2020. We remember him in the Echoes Podcast including clips from a never-published 1996 interview. Five Essential Jon Christensen Recordings Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg, Jon Christensen – Descendre Jan Garbarek – Witchi-Tai-To Keith Jarrett – Belonging George Russell – The Essential George Russell  Ketil Bjornstad – The Sea Playlist of Tracks in the Feature from Artists Appearing at Big Ears Festival 2020 Bang on a Can All-Stars – Comfortable Cruising Altitude – More Field Recordings Mary Lattimore – Baltic Birch – Hundreds of Days Patti Smith – Wing – Music Inspired by the Film Roma Mdou Moctar – Tarhartazed – Ilana (The Creator) Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air – A Rainbow in Curved Air Kronos Quartet – The Cusp of Magic – The Cusp of Magic Kronos Quartet – Hero – Sun Rings Meredith Monk – Dawn – Book of Days Meredith Monk – Gotham Lullabye – Dolmen Music The Necks – Hanging Gardens – Hanging Gardens The Necks – Body – Body Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin II Sons of Chipotle – Live in South Korea – unreleased Shabaka and the Ancestors – Go My Heart to Heaven – We Were Sent Here William Tyler – Venus in Aquarius – Goes West mum – Green Grass of Tunnel – Finally We Are No One Anthony Braxton – Composition no 124 – Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 Sudan Archives – Did You Know – Athena Arooj Aftab – Ovid’s Metamorphosis – Siren Islands