|
Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen
Aftenland [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Recorded in a Stockholm church in 1979, Aftenland documents a fascinating encounter between Jan Garbarek, improviser par excellence, and classical organist Kjell Johnsen. "Preparing and realizing Aftenland was one of the most interesting experiences... |
|
John Abercrombie
Animato [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded October 1989. John Abercrombie's guitar is framed and supported by composer Vince Mendoza's quasi-orchestral use of synthesizers. Jon Christensen's drums add acoustic commentary. |
|
John Abercrombie
Night [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Night reconvenes the guitar/keyboards/drums trio that made Abercrombie's classic Timeless, and adds Mike Brecker on tenor sax for extra emphasis at strategic moments on an album described by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as "surprisingly funky". All... |
|
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 / Ralph Towner
Sargasso Sea [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1976, 'Sargasso Sea' is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
John Surman
Private City [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The most popular of John Surman's multi-tracked solo albums, "Private City" includes music originally written for the ballet of the same name, premiered at Sadler's Wells. Recorded in December 1987. |
|
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. |
|
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
Facing You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in November 1971, Keith Jarrett's 'Facing You' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
Keith Jarrett
Standards Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The protagonists had already recorded together on Gary Peacock's Tales of Another in 1977, but Jarrett's Standards project, with its dedication to the Great American Songbook, proposed a new sphere of operation, one that would make this trio among... |
|
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette
Standards Live [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1985, this superb album by Keith Jarrett, with Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
Kenny Wheeler
Double, Double You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every... |
|
Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in June 1975, Kenny Wheeler's 'Gnu High' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
Art Lande / Jan Garbarek
Red Lanta [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The album title is anagram of Art Lande, the idiosyncratic US pianist making his ECM debut in a set of his own tunes, very ably partnered by Jan Garbarek on a recording described by Down Beat as "one of the finest albums ECM has yet released…It is... |
|
Leo Smith
Divine Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Wadada Leo Smith's Divine Love is one of ECM's most tantalizing jewels, the result of many years ignoring the label's advances. I can only speculate this was because the immediacy of his craft might have been adversely affected by the interventions... |
|
Louis Sclavis Quintet
Rouge [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Clarinettist/saxophonist Louis Sclavis's first ECM album (recorded 1991) brims over with ideas, creating something fresh at the intersection of jazz and chamber music. Compositions and arrangements on Rouge twist and turn in unexpected ways, keeping... |
|
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires
Second Sight [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] Recorded in March 1987, the 'Second Sight' album from Marc Johnson's Bass Desires has now been re-issued on CD at this special price, and packaged in a stylish digipak cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
Mark Feldman
What Exit [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] |
|
Mick Goodrick
In Pas(s)ing [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] In Pas(s)ing was Mick Goodrick's recording debut as leader, after some years with Gary Burton and before that, a spell with Woody Herman. Never very tigerish about self-promotion, Goodrick has spent most of his life teaching in Boston: Jazz Times has... |
|
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... |