Eternity and a Year: Recent Music on ECM

Eternity and a Year gathers music from ECM’s 2002 production year, the label’s 33rd, when more than 40 recordings appeared. The double album forms a two-way mirror. Disc 1 returns the listener’s altered image; Disc 2 stands behind the glass, observing that reflection and discovering its afterlife. Jazz and classical music become opposed memories: one improvises [ ]