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Charlie Haden
Ballad Of The Fallen [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri
The Bell [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. "The best thing I caught all weekend," said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, "was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist... |
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. |
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... |
Chick Corea
Septet [ ECM / CD - released 1/Nov/1985 ] |
Chick Corea / Stefano Bollani
Orvieto [ ECM / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] Corea and Bollani in their first recorded collaboration, a document of a most spirited gig in Orvieto's Teatro Mancinelli, December 2010. |
Chris Potter
The Dreamer Is the Dream (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York... |
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Elegie an John Donne Christian Reiner [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the winter of 2012/13, Viennese actor and voice artist Christian Reiner attracted much acclaim for his interpretation of Friedrich Hölderlin's "Turmgedichten". "Reiner is able to coax the music out of the words", German newspaper Frankfurter... |
Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert [ ECM / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis's band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in... |
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. |
Craig Taborn
Shadow Plays [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was widely praised for the fresh ideas it brought to the solo piano idiom. "It reflects Mr Taborn's galactically-broad interests," said the New York Times, "along with his multifaceted technique," while the... |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] The Danish String Quartet's new album is a "retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and... |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 22/Sep/2017 ] They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Shostakovich/Bach: Prism I Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] For its third ECM release, the prize-winning Danish String Quartet inaugurates a series of five albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Schnittke/Bach - Prism II Danish String Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 13/Sep/2020 ] "A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven's introspection feels more unsettling than usual." BBC Music Chamber Choice November 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "...they're thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn't draw too close to the music." Gramophone |
THOMAS ADES / ER NORGARD / HANS ABRAHAMSEN
Ades: Arcadiana / Norgard: Quartetto Breve / Abrahamsen: 10 Preludes The Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "The Danish are remarkable, as ever - capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
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 ] |
