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Charles Lloyd
The Call [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1993, Charles Lloyd's 'Call' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
Bill Connors
Of Mist and Melting [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A guitarist's guitarist, Bill Connors has always had the admiration of his peers. Steve Tibbetts recently praised Connors's "left-hand vibrato, his sense of space, his liquid phrasing, the way he lingers on a note" - all qualities in evidence on... |
Chick Corea
Children's Songs [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded July 1983. These solo piano pieces, simple-yet-profound (comparisons have been made with Bartók's Makrokosmos), have lost none of their charm. |
Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
George Adams
Sound Suggestions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] George Adams made only one ECM recording, but it's a beauty, placing his powerful tenor sax at the front of a talent-packed group, with Adams, Kenny Wheeler and Heinz Sauer all contributing compositions to the programme. "The spirit of Mingus hovers... |
Jan Garbarek
I Took up the Runes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Jan Garbarek, saxophones, with Nana Vasconcelos & Eberhard Weber, Recorded August 1990. |
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded June 1981.Flamboyant trumpeter Lester Bowie was a sonic scientist with roots in R & B, the blues and carnival music: his first ECM leader disc good-humoredly explores these elements. |
John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman's improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to... |
