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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... |
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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... |
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Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Volume 1 (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 18/Apr/2025 ] ECM's pioneering documentation of solo piano music was one of the genre-changing experiments of the early 1970s, and this beautifully recorded session, capturing Chick Corea in Oslo's Bendiksen Studio in April 1971, marked the beginning of this new... |
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Chick Corea
Rarum Volume 3 :-Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
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Chick Corea
Return to Forever [ ECM Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] Recorded in February 1972, this was initially a solo album by ex-Miles Davis keyboardist, Chick Corea which became the debut for the first incarnation of his legendary group Return to Forever, featuring bassist Stanley Clarke. |
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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... |
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Chris Potter
The Dreamer Is the Dream [ ECM / CD - 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... |
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Chris Potter / underground Orchestra
Imaginary Cities [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] Imaginary Cities is the recording premiere of saxophonist Chris Potter's new Underground Orchestra. At the core of this larger ensemble is the personnel of his long-established Underground quartet - with Adam Rogers, Craig Taborn and Nate Smith - now... |
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Chris Potter Underground Orchestra
Imaginary Cities (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 6/Jan/2015 ] Imaginary Cities is the recording premiere of saxophonist Chris Potter's new Underground Orchestra. At the core of this larger ensemble is the personnel of his long-established Underground quartet - with Adam Rogers, Craig Taborn and Nate Smith - now... |
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Christian Wallumrod Ensemble
Fabula Suite Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] Wallumrod's ensemble creates a music which exists between the genres, full of whimsical humour, archaic pathos, grandeur and tenderness; it's the sounds of rich sonorities, melodic beauty and stylistic puzzles. |
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Christian Wallumrod Ensemble
Outstairs [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2013 ] The ensemble of Christian Wallumrød continues to evolve in its own idiosyncratic way on Outstairs. By now, Wallumrød's compositional signature is instantly recognizable. |
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SCHUMANN / HOLLIGER
Romanzen Christop Richter (cello), Denes Varjon (piano), Heinz Holliger (oboe) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "It's an inquisitive piece in which cello and piano step tentaively around each other with the subtlety of the opening sections giving way to the hysterical intensity of "RS Flügelschlagen", in which the piano is attacked internally and cello plucked... |
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Christoph Poppen (baroque violin) / Hilliard Ensemble
Morimur (after J.S. Bach) [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2001 ] the Hilliard Ensemble have realised a unique project for ECM |
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SAARIAHO / CAGE / MADERNA
In Due Tempi Cikada String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Behind the notes the Cikadas' deeply committed playing reveals glimpses of a dramatic personality that could only be Italian in its lyrical warmth. Riveting stuff." BBC Music Magazine |
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Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] 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... |
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Colin Vallon Trio
Danse [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions. On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group not with virtuosic solo display but by patient outlining of melody and... |
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Colin Vallon Trio
Rruga [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] |
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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. |
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Craig Taborn
Avenging Angel [ ECM / CD - released 23/May/2011 ] |
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Craig Taborn
Daylight Ghosts [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] Keyboardist Craig Taborn's Daylight Ghosts is the Minneapolis-bred New Yorker's third ECM release as a leader, a quartet album following the solo Avenging Angel and trio disc Chants. Both projects earned wide acclaim, with The Guardian saying that... |