Shirley Scott – One for Me

Eberhard Weber’s most minimalistic work, Chorus is a gorgeous study of space, atmosphere, and organic improvisation. While other Weber albums tended to explore a more stacked and “colourful” sound filled with strings, percussion, horns, and voices, Chorus sees Weber joined only by longtime collaborator Jan Garbarek on soprano and tenor saxophones and Ralf Hübner (one of the Germany jazz drummers). In this intimate trio setting, Weber’s electric upright bass becomes even more fluid floating through the always impeccably engineered ECM sonic space while Garbarek’s saxophones seemingly suspend time with delicate ebbs and flows in dynamics. A quiet work of devastating beauty, Chorus perfectly encapsulates ECM’s ethos of “the most beautiful sound next to silence.”
Recommended – Full Listen
A1 Part I
A2 Part II
A3 Part III, IV
B1 Part V
B2 Part VI
B3 Part VII
Bass, Synthesizer, Composed By – Eberhard Weber
Clarinet, Flute – Manfred Hoffbauer
Design – Maja Weber
Drums – Ralf-R. Hübner*
Engineer – Martin Wieland
Oboe, English Horn – Martin Künstner
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Jan Garbarek