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Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Amaryllis (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway" in 1997. Material heard on "Amaryllis" is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known - almost... |
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Mark Turner, Jason Palmer, Joe Martin, Jonathan Pinson
Return From The Stars (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
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Mark Turner Quartet
Patternmaster (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Mar/2026 ] In his review of Mark Turner's last quartet effort for ECM, 2022's Return From The Stars, the Swiss daily Weltwoche's Peter Rüedi described the programme as "the leanest, most concentrated, and most inspired improvised chamber music imaginable." It's... |
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Masqualero
Aero (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Performers: Masqualero - Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Tore Brunborg, Nils Petter Molvaer, Frode Alnaes |
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Mathias Eick
Midwest (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Mar/2015 ] Mathias Eick reflects on distances travelled in this intensely melodic set of original compositions, which makes an imaginative journey from Hem, the tiny Norwegian village where the trumpeter grew up, to the vast plains of Dakota in the American... |
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Mathias Eick
When We leave (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] 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. |
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Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
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Matthieu Bordenave
The Blue Land (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] For the follow-up of his ECM-leader-debut La traversée, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave expands his trio of German pianist Florian Weber and Swiss bassist Patrice Moret with the unique sensibilities of drummer James Maddren, whose unrelenting... |
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Mette Henriette
Mette Henriette (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Dec/2015 ] The untitled ECM double-album debut of young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg is an arrestingly original musical statement. 'Jazz' players and 'classical' players are drawn together in her ensembles,... |
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Mette Henriette
Drifting (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] After Mette Henriette's critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting - an album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression. With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello... |
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Michael Mantler & Don Preston
Alien (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Michael Mantler, trumpet. Don Preston, synthesizers. |
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Mikhail Alperin
Wave Of Sorrow (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Misha Alperin - Piano, Melodica, Voice Arkady Shilkloper - French Horn, Jagdhorn, Flugelhorn, Voice |
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Miroslav Vitous
Mountain Call (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Mar/2026 ] Mountain Call is a peak achievement in Miroslav Vitous' music, presenting the masterful bassist in varying ensemble configurations that prominently include the renowned French clarinetist, Michel Portal, and late American drummer, Jack DeJohnette,... |
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Miroslav Vitous Group
Miroslav Vitous Group (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2014 ] A reissue of the Miroslav Vitous Group album by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label. |
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Nabou
You Know (LP) [ Outnote Records / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] With an original line-up of trombone, electric guitar, double bass and drums, N∆BOU is a breath of fresh air on the Belgian jazz scene. On the trombone, bandleader and composer Nabou Claerhout is looking for a sound all her own: by means of all sorts... |
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Naná Vasconcelos
Saudades (LP) [ ECM / LP - 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 'concerto' for an innovative player of a... |
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Nik Bärtsch's Mobile
Continuum (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Mar/2016 ] |
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Nils Petter Molvaer
Khmer (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] Massive beats and throbbing grooves underpin the Norwegian trumpeter's fiery solos in a project that forms a bridge between ECM's improvised soundscapes and the brave new world of trip-hop, drum'n'bass, ambient/illbient, techno, industrial,... |
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Nitai Hershkovits
Call On The Old Wise (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] 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... |
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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... |