|
Steve Kuhn
Trance [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Steve Kuhn on piano, with Steve Swallow on electric bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Sue Evans on percussion. |
|
Steve Swallow
Home - Music By Steve Swallow To Poems By Robert Creeley [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A recording of great charm, Home features bassist Steve Swallow's settings of the poetry of Robert Creeley for an inspired band of friends, each of whom is also a strikingly original presence. Creeley was very supportive of the project and loved... |
|
Steve Tibbetts
Northern Song [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Steve Tibbetts' first ECM session found the Minnesotan guitar player journeying with faithful percussionist Marc Anderson to Oslo in 1981, to make what might be his most stark and inner-directed recording, etching sounds in silence. "There is nothing... |
|
Susanne Abbuehl
Compass [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Compass is a voyage at many levels: through music and text, with images evoking the freshness of sea air and the colours of wildflowers. A voyage through polar extreme of jazz - from Chick Corea to Sun Ra, through folk song in the slipstream of... |
|
Terje Rypdal
Blue [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Terje Rypdal, Bjørn Kjellemyr, and Audun Kleive continue where they left off on Chaser with this equally memorable set. Blue is not a companion album, however. It is the yin to the other's yang: on the surface they are solid teardrops of color, but... |
|
Terje Rypdal
Descendre [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Among the pleasures of this group of Rypdal reissues is the presence throughout of drummer Jon Christensen. Terje and Jon, lifelong friends, played on dozens of albums and in many groups together. Christensen always alluded to the trio with Terje and... |
|
Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1971. |
|
Terje Rypdal
What Comes After [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in January 1974, CD is re-released in October 2020 in the ECM Touchstone Series. What Comes After introduced a new alliance with American bassist Barre Phillips whose freely creative arco playing is often the second lead voice... |
|
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
|
Tomasz Stanko
Balladyna [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Tomasz Stanko's 'Balladyna' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
|
Trygve Seim / Andreas Utnem
Purcor [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Modestly subtitled "Songs for saxophone and piano", this recording quietly covers a lot of ground, with repertoire including new musical settings of parts of the Mass, folk songs, theatre music, improvisations, and a new version of Seim's... |
|
Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Arild Andersen / John Marshall
Achirana [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Arild Andersen introduces a new trio with the highly gifted Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, who makes his ECM debut with 'Achirana'. They are joined by veteran British drummer John Marshall, previously a member of Eberhard Weber's 'Colours'... |