Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening [ ECM / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening (LP) [ ECM / LP - due 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers... |
Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Mysterious, dramatic and alluring, Luminessence comes from a peak period in the creative association between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, recorded in 1974, immediately after their vibrant Belonging album. Here, Jarrett creates shimmering... |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Compassion [ ECM / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy - the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey - with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. Together with his... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus (LP) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 LP - released 15/Dec/2023 ] Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of string orchestra and choir. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste's... |
GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Gurdjieff: Zartir The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The third album from Levon Eskenian's remarkable ensemble is its most adventurous to date. As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and... |
Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro, Marilyn Mazur
Strands: Live At The Danish Radio Concert Hall [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "When we walked out on stage it felt like a homecoming," says Jakob Bro of this texturally spacious and emotionally charged live recording from Copenhagen, on which three of the defining protagonists of improvisation in Denmark, leading musicians... |
John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
Arild Andersen Group
Affirmation (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] In November 2021, bassist Arild Andersen brought his new quartet with saxophonist Marius Neset, pianist Helge Lien and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen to Oslo's Rainbow Studio. Norway's pandemic travel restrictions having ruled out the participation of... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of string orchestra and choir. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste's... |
Nitai Hershkovits
Call On The Old Wise [ ECM / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] With Call on the old Wise Nitai Hershkovits delivers an entrancing solo album. In this largely improvised solo rendering, the pianist draws from broad influences, ranging from his extensive work in jazz contexts and cutting-edge contemporary... |
Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series) / 3 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Recorded March & July 1973 |
John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders [ ECM / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Fantazias John Holloway (violin), Monika Baer (viola), Renate Steinmann (viola), Martin Zeller (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Henry Purcell's "fantazias" are regarded as some of the finest and most intricately wrought examples of the fantasia, due to their profound embrace of counterpoint and great command of the polyphonal techniques of the time. Composed in the summer of... |
Sinikka Langeland
Wind And Sun [ ECM / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] "Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky," wrote Fiona Talkington in Songlines. "Her presence and her voice are magical, but when she plays her kantele you can almost feel nature itself... |
Maciej Obara Quartet
Frozen Silence [ ECM / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] Frozen Silence is the third ECM release from alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's Polish-Norwegian quartet bringing the story forward from Unloved and Three Crowns - and perhaps its strongest musical statement to date. Alert interactivity is the hallmark... |