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Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/Nov/1999 ] "Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide constituency of listeners. His albums would turn up in the collections of people who would otherwise... |
Keith Jarrett
New Vienna - At the Musikverein, 2016 [ ECM / CD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] New Vienna is the fourth concert recording to be released from Keith Jarrett's final European solo tour. It follows Munich 2016, Budapest Concert and Bordeaux Concert. Why New Vienna? As Jarrett aficionados will know, his discography already includes... |
Keith Jarrett
New Vienna - At the Musikverein, 2016 (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 30/May/2025 ] New Vienna is the fourth concert recording to be released from Keith Jarrett's final European solo tour. It follows Munich 2016, Budapest Concert and Bordeaux Concert. Why New Vienna? As Jarrett aficionados will know, his discography already includes... |
Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock
The Old Country [ ECM / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "This particular evening was a warm, humid, rainy autumn night in the Pocono Mountains. The room was full of people and outside on the porch more people listened through the screen doors." Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett's recordings from the Deer... |
Mark Turner
Return From The Stars [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Mar/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... |
Mathias Eick
Skala (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 4/Apr/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". Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he... |
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - 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... |
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes
Outpost Of Dreams [ ECM / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Outpost of Dreams introduces a new duo. Norma Winstone, as always quietly innovative as jazz singer and lyricist, brings her vocal subtlety and poetic sensibility to new pieces by Kit Downes, and to compositions by Carla Bley, Ralph Towner, and John... |
Oded Tzur
My Prophet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Jul/2024 ] On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself - a flowing jazz... |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
Knaifel: Chapter Eight Patrick Demenga, The State Choir Latvija, Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, Youth Choir Kamēr, Andres Mustonen [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] "It is amazing with what a deep sense of beauty this composition for church, choruses and cello is imbued" said Mstislav Rostropovich on first experiencing Chapter Eight. Basing the music on the Old Testament Song of Songs, The Song of Solomon,... |
Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset
Lost River [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also... |
Signum Quartett
A Dark Flaring (String Quartets from South Africa) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] A Dark Flaring marks the Signum Quartett's impressive return to ECM's New Series after debuting for the label with striking performances on Erkki-Sven Tüür's acclaimed chamber music recording Lost Prayers (2020). Here, the quartet has put together a... |
Steve Tibbetts
Hellbound Train [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Hellbound Train is a double-album retrospective from Steve Tibbetts with music selected by the US guitarist from 40 years of recordings on ECM. Neatly divided into electric and acoustic chapters, the anthology juxtaposes pieces originally featured on... |
Terje Rypdal
Conspiracy (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] A new ECM studio album and a programme of new music from Terje Rypdal is cause for celebration. On Conspiracy the great Norwegian guitarist seems to reconnect with the wild inspiration that fuelled such early masterpieces as Whenever I Seem To Be Far... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
What Was Said (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] What Was Said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen's musical palette. His new project introduces the entrancing German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Songs Of Fate Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. |
Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff [ ECM / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] "Break Stuff" is what happens after formal elements have been addressed. Vijay Iyer calls the break "a span of time in which to act. It's the basis for breakdowns, breakbeats, and break dancing... it can be the moment when everything comes to life."... |
ARVO PART
Part: Alina / Spiegel im Spiegel Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Sergev Bezrodny (piano) Alexander Malter (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. - Arvo Pärt |
MATHIAS DUPLESSY
El último aliento Zsófia Boros (classical guitar) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The focus of Zsófia Boros's third recording for ECM's New Series is split two-ways, with one spotlight turned towards contemporary compositions from Argentina and the other on the multiple-idioms spanning music of French composer Mathias Duplessy.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 6: Sonatas Nos 22-26 (Incl Appassionata) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] "Three of these middle-period works are short, but what riches they deliver, and all abundantly and robustly realised by Schiff." BBC Music Five Stars |
