SHOSTAKOVICH
24 Preludes and Fugues op.87 Keith Jarrett (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Shostakovich given the Keith Jarrett style |
John Abercrombie Quartet
39 Steps [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2014 ] John Abercrombie's revised quartet provides Marc Copland with his first appearance on ECM. Yet guitarist and pianist are old allies, with an association stretching back forty years. In the early 1970s both were members of Chico Hamilton's quartet,... |
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Third Decade [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Carla Bley
4 X 4 [ ECM / CD - released 30/Oct/2000 ] "4x4" is the title of Carla Bley's new album and also the name of her new octet. It's a stripped-down version of her Big Band. Carla's cast off three trumpets, three trombones and three reeds, but there is no loss of power. On the contrary, like... |
BARTOK
44 Duos for Two Violins (with music by Ligeti and Kurtag) Andras Keller, Janos Pilz (violins) [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/May/2002 ] "These performances are exemplary, hitting exactly the right tome of folk-like melancholy or exuberance (and sometimes both)." ***** Five Stars (BBC Music Magazine) June 2002 |
Pat Metheny
80/81 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded May 1980. |
Pat Metheny
80/81 (180g Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Pat Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package, a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely... |
Courvoisier Sylvie
Abaton [ ECM Records / 2 CD ] |
Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder, Markku Ounaskari
Absence [ ECM / CD - released 6/Apr/0018 ] Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu makes his ECM debut with a striking album of his own rigorous-yet-lyrical music, sensitively played by a trio formed especially for this recording, with US guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari.... |
Dominic Miller
Absinthe [ ECM / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] With Absinthe, his second release for ECM, guitarist Dominic Miller has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. "The first thing that came to me before I wrote any tunes was the title," he says. "Living in the South of France... |
Dominic Miller
Absinthe (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2019 ] With Absinthe, his second release for ECM, guitarist Dominic Miller has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. "The first thing that came to me before I wrote any tunes was the title," he says. "Living in the South of France... |
Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Arild Andersen / John Marshall
Achirana [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Arild Andersen introduces a new trio with the highly gifted Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, who makes his ECM debut with 'Achirana'. They are joined by veteran British drummer John Marshall, previously a member of Eberhard Weber's 'Colours'... |
Annette Peacock
An Acrobats Heart (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "Incomparable" is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit called this album on its release in the year 2000, before going on to describe the music as follows: "A high, warm voice sings fragile songs, Annette Peacock accompanies herself on the grand... |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Robin Rydqvist trumpet (flugelhorn) & Krister Petersson (french horn)
Ad Lucem [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] Jormin, hailed by Down Beat as "a treasure everything a bassist should be", has excelled on numerous ECM recordings with Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, Don Cherry, and Tomasz Stanko. Solo pieces and compositions for brass quartet feature on"Xieyi",... |
ARVO PART
Part: Adam's Lament Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] GRAMMY WINNER: Best Choral Album 2014 |
Masqualero
Aero (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Performers: Masqualero - Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Tore Brunborg, Nils Petter Molvaer, Frode Alnaes |
Arild Andersen Group
Affirmation [ ECM / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] 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... |
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... |
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... |
Abdullah Ibrahim
African Piano [ JAPO / ECM / CD - released 1/Mar/1973 ] Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club - Copenhagen's famous Jazzhus Montmartre - the flavour of this album is 'documentary' rather than... |