Recently, Crispell's artistic proclivities have shifted focus, emphasizing the lyrical aspects of her music and an increasing willingness to embrace silence and space. Soft-spoken and unassuming in ...

The quartet use birdsong recorded by Olivier Messiaen to create moody, atmospheric melodies that capture the natural world through piano, fiddle, clarinet, and violin.

Pianist Marilyn Crispell has always been an intense musician, no matter what style of music she happens to be playing. Two of the high points of the ECM catalogue, from the standpoints not only of ...