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Joe Lovano

Homage

ECM
Release Date: April 25, 2025

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1 Love In The Garden  
2 Golden Horn  
3 Homage  
4 Giving Thanks  
5 This Side - Catville  
6 Projection  
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Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski trio are in an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group’s previous recording (Arctic Riff, 2020), on Homage the quartet moreover investigates the type of free-flowing interplay and expansive passages of improvisation that have become a staple in Lovano’s ventures with his trio tapestry group and elsewhere. The album was recorded at a studio session in the midst of the group’s Village Vanguard residency in late Autumn 2023, revealing fluent structures as they’re being developed. A rare sense of expressivity and spiritual affinity grace the session.

Clocking in at over ten minutes each, two long-form compositions and the title track “Homage” – all Lovano originals – make up the bedrock of the album and find the players at their most exploratory, with Joe frequently swapping out his tenor and tárogató for a variety of percussion instruments - “Just a handful of gongs and some light percussion sounds,” notes Lovano. “It’s so nice to communicate with Michael [Miskiewicz] on drums – in the studio it felt like we were one!”

  • Joe Lovano - Homage. Free-flowing spontaneity / the arts desk
    Posted At: April 11, 2025
    Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski trio are in an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group’s previous recording (Arctic Riff, 2020), on Homage the quartet moreover investigates the type of free-flowing interplay and expansive passages of improvisation that have become a staple in Lovano’s ...

  • First Night of 2025 Bergamo Jazz Festival - Joe Lovano + Antonio Farao Trio, Lizz Wright / UKJAZZNEWS
    Posted At: March 21, 2025
    Sebastian Scotney writes……There can be powerful and transformational moments in live concerts. You never forget them. This was one of them. Joe Lovano is the Artistic Director of the Bergamo Jazz Festival. He has given it the strapline “Sounds of Joy”, and his public role is to welcome the audience in the spirit of all of us being at (happy, Italian) family gathering, and then to do an introduction of the a...

  • Flawless chemistry between the Joe Lovano quartet on 'Homage' / JAZZ CHILL
    Posted At: March 20, 2025
    JAZZ CHILL MUSIC writes…..Renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano and the Polish Marcin Wasilewski Trio have joined forces once again for their highly anticipated second album on ECM, Homage. Following the success of their 2020 release, Arctic Riff, this new project delves deeper into the expressive interplay and expansive improvisation that has become a hallmark of Lovano’s work. Recorded during the group’s 2023 V...
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