John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine
John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recorded live at Boston's Nightstage club in 1988 this album found John Abercrombie both pushing sonic boundaries on guitar synthesizer and, on regular jazz guitar, deepening his relationship to the world of standards. In this trio he had exceptional... |
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,... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
Up and Coming [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] Guitarist John Abercrombie - who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 - returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group's... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
Up and Coming (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Guitarist John Abercrombie - who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 - returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group's... |
ANONYMOUS / CAMPION / BANKS / PICFORTH
Amores Pasados John Potter (voice) Anna maria Friman (voice) Ariel Abramovich (lute) Jacob Heringman (lute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Jul/2015 ] For this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs. "Asking a rock music composer to set existing... |
John Surman
Words Unspoken [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2024 ] Hypnotic and many of its antonyms-stimulating, arousing, reviving-are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music... |
Marc Johnson, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Peter Erskine
Bass Desires [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1985, Marc Johnson's 'Bass Desires' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digipak cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Jon Balke
Book of Velocities [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] This Norwegian pianist's first-ever solo disc is a remarkable 'book' of 19 short pieces, grouped into four chapters and an epilogue, of music composed and improvised, exploring a whole vocabulary of ideas, techniques, rhythms, textures and sound-colours. |
Jon Balke
Discourses [ ECM / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Jon Balke's unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist's Warp album. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music... |
Julia Hülsmann Quartet
Not Far From Here [ ECM / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Not Far From Here introduces award-winning pianist Julia Hülsmann's new group in which her long-time working trio with Marc Muellbauer and Heinrich Köbberling (together now for 17 years) is expanded to a quartet with the addition of Berlin-based... |
Julia Hülsmann Trio
Sooner and Later [ ECM / CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "Sooner And Later is a significant achievement for a trio that had set a high bar, long ago." All About Jazz |
Keith Jarrett (piano)
At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings [ ECM / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2019 ] In June 1994 over three extraordinary nights at the celebrated Blue Note in New York City, Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio took American jazz to new heights. Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note - The Complete Recordings (six CDs) captures every tune from... |
Keith Jarrett
At The Blue Note (Third CD) [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Previously released only in the US, this single disc drawn from the At The Blue Note box embodies all the characteristics that made Jarrett's trio for many listeners the preeminent group in all of jazz. The qualities of respect for the material and... |
Keith Jarrett
Belonging [ ECM / CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] |
Keith Jarrett
Belonging (LP) [ ECM / LP ] |
Keith Jarrett
Book Of Ways (Reissue) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] 'Book of Ways' was recorded on the 14th of July 1986 in Ludwigsburg. The sequence of improvisations has been adapted for this double album without being changed in order. Rather amazing is the great variety of sound and rhythm - Jarrett played... |
Keith Jarrett
Bordeaux Concert [ ECM / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett's last European tour. Each of Jarrett's 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore. In the course of this improvised... |
Keith Jarrett
Concerts Bregenz [ ECM / 3 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "The Bregenz/Munich concerts were Jarrett's most brilliant live solo recordings to date; his level of inspiration is quite extraordinary, and the music covers a wider musical and emotional range than ever." - Jarrett biographer Ian Carr |
Keith Jarrett
Eyes Of The Heart [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Keith Jarrett
Facing You (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Jarrett's first-ever solo album, made at the beginning of his long creative association with ECM in 1971, and cited as an influence by innumerable pianists since then. |