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Mick Goodrick / Fred Hersch
Feebles, Fables & Ferns [ ECM / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Feebles, Fables and Ferns captures a rare one-time coming together of luminaries Mick Goodrick and Fred Hersch, both active in Boston at the time, recorded in Hersch's studio in New York, August 1988. Looking back at the session in 2025, Hersch notes... |
Tomasz Stanko
Balladyna (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 15/May/2026 ] An essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians - in Poland and Finland above all, though it also... |
Elina Duni, Rob Luft
Reaching For The Moon [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Apr/2026 ] "Few contemporary jazz-influenced singers manage to sound so intensely like themselves while drawing on such a variety of genres, languages, and cultural backstories as the Albania-born vocalist Elina Duni," The Guardian has noted, and Reaching for... |
Joe Lovano
Paramount Quartet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The "Paramount" in Joe Lovano's new quartet can be interpreted as a statement of intent. "I feel like at this point I'm on the rise," Joe says, seemingly unaware of the decades of experience and several dozens of leader-recordings under his belt.... |
Joe Lovano
Paramount Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The "Paramount" in Joe Lovano's new quartet can be interpreted as a statement of intent. "I feel like at this point I'm on the rise," Joe says, seemingly unaware of the decades of experience and several dozens of leader-recordings under his belt.... |
Judith Berkson, Trevor Dunn, Gerald Cleaver
Thee They Thy [ ECM / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] After Oylam (2010), Judith Berkson, mezzo-soprano, pianist, composer and improviser, returns with another unclassifiable, and strangely compelling, artistic statement. On Thee They Thy, she leads a trio with Trevor Dunn and Gerald Cleaver through a... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Prokofiev, Schnittke, Pärt Duo Gazzana [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] „[The Gazzanas] have played together as siblings since early childhood. But that alone is not enough to explain the special intimacy of their music-making. There is more than familial rapport here; there is something enormously unvarnished in both of... |
Miroslav Vitous
Mountain Call [ ECM / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] Mountain Call is a peak achievement in Miroslav Vitous' music, presenting the masterful bassist in varying ensemble configurations that prominently include the renowned French clarinetist, Michel Portal, and late American drummer, Jack DeJohnette,... |
Miroslav Vitous
Mountain Call (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Mar/2026 ] Mountain Call is a peak achievement in Miroslav Vitous' music, presenting the masterful bassist in varying ensemble configurations that prominently include the renowned French clarinetist, Michel Portal, and late American drummer, Jack DeJohnette,... |
Mark Turner Quartet
Patternmaster [ ECM / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] In his review of Mark Turner's last quartet effort for ECM, 2022's Return From The Stars, the Swiss daily Weltwoche's Peter Rüedi described the programme as "the leanest, most concentrated, and most inspired improvised chamber music imaginable." It's... |
Mark Turner Quartet
Patternmaster (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Mar/2026 ] In his review of Mark Turner's last quartet effort for ECM, 2022's Return From The Stars, the Swiss daily Weltwoche's Peter Rüedi described the programme as "the leanest, most concentrated, and most inspired improvised chamber music imaginable." It's... |
Heinz Holliger (oboe), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (Cor Anglais)
con slancio [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] "These performances, by Heinz Holliger and Marie-Lise Schüpbach, are simply astonishing in their fluency," wrote UK magazine Gramophone of Holliger's album Zwiegespräche, and the description applies with equal pertinence to con slancio, with its... |
Julia Hülsmann Octet
While I Was Away [ ECM / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] After the highly acclaimed run of quartet recordings from Not Far From Here (2019), The Next Door (2022) to Under The Surface (2025), German pianist Julia Hülsmann has decided to alter the narrative and up the ante with a newly formed octet of... |
Björn Meyer Convergence
Convergence [ ECM / CD - released 23/Jan/2026 ] With Convergence, his second solo album, Swedish-born bassist Björn Meyer further develops music on the blueprint established with his recording Provenance (2017), making use of the technical potential of the bass guitar to establish striking... |
Craig Taborn / Tomeka Reid / Ches Smith
Dream Archives [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] The trio-debut of pianist, composer and 2025 MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith has been eagerly awaited. In its review of the group's live show from Fall 2025 the German daily Hamburger Abendblatt raved how they "belong to... |
Gary Peacock, Ralph Towner
Oracle (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jan/2026 ] The charming, thoughtfoul Oracle conveys the familiarity and empathy of partners who have worked together for years - light touch, intricacy and sensitivity pervade the session. Oracle wins you over with its warmth and melodicism. - Downbeat, 1994 ... |
Keith Jarrett
The Köln Concert - Special Edition (Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Dec/2025 ] The Köln Concert - the groundbreaking recording of Keith Jarrett's improvised solo concert at the Cologne opera house - has attained legendary status since its release in 1975. An iconic album and an essential document of the era, few live recordings... |
John Scofield, Dave Holland
Memories of Home [ ECM / CD - released 21/Nov/2025 ] Guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland, two of jazz's contemporary masters, have played together over the years in contexts including projects with Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson and a spirited co-led band with Joe Lovano and Al... |
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
Madar (LP) [ ECM (Luminessence Series) / 2 LP - released 7/Nov/2025 ] Madar powerfully captures the only recorded coming together of these respective masters of their distinctive instruments: Shaukat Hussain on tabla, Anouar Brahem on oud and saxophonist Jan Garbarek. "Manfred [Eicher] proposed that we might invite... |
Steve Tibbetts
Close [ ECM / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] The striking cover image of an abandoned swing illuminated against a field of glittering stars makes a compelling visual metaphor for the music on Close. "Music is a twilight language," Steve Tibbetts confirms. "The job is to translate some shadow... |
