New ECM Album Reflects on Past History

This coming Friday, ECM will release a new trio album entitled Windflower . Ayumi Tanaka leads from the piano with rhythm provided by Thomas Morgan on bass and drummer Thomas Strønen. There are nine tracks, eight of which are “group compositions” by the entire trio. Only the second track, “La Source” was composed only by Tanaka. At the end of this past April , I wrote about the ECM album Homage ,…