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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... |
Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Part of the 'Touchstones' series of specially-priced and newly packaged albums from ECM's back catalogue. All featuring the original artwork and brand new packaging - double cardboard sleeves reminiscent of the original LPs. Tunisian oud master... |
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Khomsa is an old Tunisian female name meaning "the five fingers of the hand", symbolic of good luck in the Tunisian bedouin tradition. It is also the name of the heroine in Nouri Bouzid's film Bezness - the music for which was composed by Anouar... |
Arild Andersen
The Triangle [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Arild Andersen's trio emphasises the writing and playing of Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, whose melodic improvising and sense of form are influenced by his background as a classical musician. Tsabropoulos's tunes, and his arrangement of Ravel... |
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Full Force [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of Art Ensemble of Chicago's 'Full Force' album, which was recorded in January, 1980. |
Barre Phillips
Mountainscapes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Barre Phillips's Mountainscapes brings together strongly contrasting elements, the furious high-energy playing of the Surman/Phillips/Martin trio juxtaposed with spacious impressionistic pieces originally created for Carolyn Carlson's ballet dancers.... |
Bennie Maupin & Herbie Hancock
The Jewel In The Lotus [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Bennie Maupin has been a musicians' musician for decades, and a highly inventive contributor, on bass clarinet and saxes, to some important records - including Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew", Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" and Marion Brown's "Afternoon... |
The Bill Frisell Band
Lookout For Hope [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Memo from the heyday of the Downtown scene, an album from Frisell's first touring band, with cellist Hank Roberts, drummer Joey Baron and bassist Kermit Driscoll. All material by Frisell, except Thelonious Monk's "Hackensack". |
Bobo Stenson Trio
War Orphans [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Characteristically broad in its stylistic range, this 1997 recording begins with a tune by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and ends with Duke Ellington's "Melancholia". In between are original contributions by Anders Jormin and Bobo Stenson... |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Chick Corea's first unaccompanied album initiated the solo piano idiom at ECM, and proved to be extremely influential. Alongside music created in the moment, some powerful melodies are explored here, not least that of "Sometime Ago", soon to be a... |
Collin Walcott
Cloud Dance [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in March 1975, Collin Walcott's 'Cloud Dance' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
Dave Holland Quartet
Extensions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] |
Dave Holland Quintet
Seeds Of Time [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] As well as being a mighty bassist, Dave Holland has long been a wise band leader, filling his groups with players of differing background and experience and drawing on their collected knowledge and energies. Holland recognised the individuality of... |
Dave Holland Trio
Triplicate [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The phenomenal strength of Dave Holland's bass pushes Steve Coleman and Jack DeJohnette into their most powerful work to date," opined the Sydney Morning Herald. "The subtlety of Coleman's inflections, the poise and complexity of his lines, are at... |
David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
David Torn
Cloud About Mercury [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Everything is in a state of transition," David Torn explained. "Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change." The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose... |
Dino Saluzzi
Andina [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Dino Saluzzi's solo bandoneon breathes songs of Andean mountain villages, family histories, the changing seasons and more, and draws you into the player's world of memory, where chorales and tangos and waltzes resound. Saluzzi epitomises the... |
Dino Saluzzi
Kultrum [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded November 1982. Argentinean bandoneon master's ECM debut album is a spellbinding solo tour de force, tracing an 'imaginary return' to the villages of Dino's childhood, as elements of folk tunes and other root sounds are integrated into the... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The interaction of Eberhard Weber's highly distinctive bass and Rainer Brüninghaus' lyrical piano is at the heart of a number of popular ECM recordings, starting with Weber's Colours of Chloë, and extending through the discographies of the Colours... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
Egberto Gismonti / Nana Vasconcelos
Duas Vozes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Dec/2008 ] Recorded June 1984. The partnership of Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vasconçelos brought new colours to improvised music on ECM. Sounds of the rainforest are conveyed in Nana's percussion, and Egberto's guitar, for all its sophistication, always retained... |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York ("where my idols were, all the people... |
Enrico Rava
The Pilgrim and the Stars [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] The Italian trumpeter's ECM debut with a band featuring John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. Rava's evocative compositions, including the meanwhile classic ballad "Blancasnow", inspire strong solos and spirited interaction.orded... |
Gary Burton Quartet
The New Quartet [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at... |
Gary Peacock
Guamba [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Gary Peacock's recordings of the 1980s are production projects on which great players convened to play the bassist's tunes. And the bass is fully a lead voice here, with title piece Guamba a Peacock solo to open the proceedings. As Paul Bley once... |
John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jan/1975 ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
Jack DeJohnette
Special Edition [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The first version of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, which helped to alert the wider world to the talents of saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe, won the Down Beat Readers' Poll Album of the Year award. Lively programme includes two John... |
Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted 'Record of the Year 1974/75' in Jazz Forum's poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: "Those who think that... |
