Mathias Eick
Ravensburg [ ECM / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] One of the pleasures of Mathias Eick's Midwest album was hearing his vaulting trumpet supported by violin, an instrumental combination further developed on Ravensburg. The new violinist in Eick's ensemble is Håkon Aase, one of the up-and-coming... |
Mathias Eick
Ravensburg (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] One of the pleasures of Mathias Eick's Midwest album was hearing his vaulting trumpet supported by violin, an instrumental combination further developed on Ravensburg. The new violinist in Eick's ensemble is Håkon Aase, one of the up-and-coming... |
Mathias Eick
Skala [ ECM / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] Mathias Eick's intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond "jazz". |
Mathias Eick
When We Leave [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's expressive playing, which according to the New York Times radiates a "pristine yet penetrating tone", is remarkably well complemented in the company of his gifted supporting players and fellow travelers. Violinist... |
Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus
The Distance [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] The Distance represents a grand creative leap for bassist-composer Michael Formanek, following two widely lauded ECM releases featuring his quartet with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver. The new album showcases his texturally rich... |
Michael Mantler (trumpet)
Coda: Orchestra Suites [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Extending the concept initiated with his critically-acclaimed Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update album, described by Down Beat as "pretty fantastic", Michael Mantler radically reworks music from several phases of his career. On Coda he shapes favourite... |
Mike Nock
Ondas [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] New Zealand-born pianist Mike Nock made significant creative contributions to new jazz with the electric group The Fourth Way at the end of the 1960s. Ondas, his sole ECM date, recorded in 1981, finds him leading an acoustic piano trio with an adroit... |
Mikhail Alperin
Wave Of Sorrow (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Misha Alperin - Piano, Melodica, Voice Arkady Shilkloper - French Horn, Jagdhorn, Flugelhorn, Voice |
Miki N'Doye
Tuki [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Jun/2006 ] "N’Doye composes on the iron-tongued kalimba thumb piano, his hypnotic variations throbbing and buzzing into a vast and numinous sound field across which Per Jorgensens’s searing trumpet lines cut a plangent counter-swathe... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello Miklos Perenyi (violoncello) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "Exploring Beethoven's cello-and-piano output gives us an outstanding set" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2004 |
Nana Vasconcelos
Saudades [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "I've been inspired by this project since Jack first phoned me with the musical concept. It seemed fitting to spotlight Tony Williams as Jack himself follows directly in the lineage of drum innovators. We each owe a debt to Tony for his genius, broad... |
Nana Vasconcelos
Saudades [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This... |
Nik Bärtsch
Entendre [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist best known as leader of the bands Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtch's musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as... |
Nik Bartsch's Mobile
Continuum [ ECM / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] After three studio albums: 'Stoa' (2006), 'Holon' (2008) and 'Lyria' (2010), plus the double-CD 'Live' (2012) with his electric band Ronin, Swiss keyboardist/composer Nik Bärtsch now presents a new recording with his original group Mobile. Mobile,... |
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile
Continuum (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Mar/2016 ] |
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase [ ECM / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Awase", a term from martial arts, means "moving together" in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Six years have passed since the last... |
Nils Økland, Sigbjørn Apeland
Glimmer (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its... |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Surrounded by Sea [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Laidback and lyrical saxophonist Andy Sheppard's newest ECM project adds Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset to the Trio Libero lineup he shares with French bassist Michel Benita and Polar Bear drummer Seb Rochford, and uses the new member's ethereal... |
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... |
The Norma Winstone Trio
Distances [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Norma Winstone, England's finest jazz vocalist, returns with a trio featuring German reedman Klaus Gesing and Italian pianist Glauco Venier. |