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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 4: Sonatas opp. 26, 27 and 28 (Incls 'Moonlight') Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "So, for those collecting Schiff's cycle, or for those wanting just these four sonatas, there is no need to hesitate. This one is a winner" (Fanfare September 2007) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Sonatas & Impromptus András Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "Schiff is a true master of the instrument and knows how to connect its resources to his individual, yet never mannered, Schubertian vision" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2019 |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley, Brian Blade
Angular Blues (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio... |
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Avishai Cohen Quartet
Ashes To Gold [ ECM / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In blazing form, the trumpeter from Tel Aviv responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic.... |
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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Naked Truth (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
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Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai
Playing The Room (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important... |
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Charles Lloyd
The Call [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1993, Charles Lloyd's 'Call' 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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Enrico Rava / Fred Hersch
The Song is You [ ECM / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters. Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention. In this... |
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ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tüür: Aeris Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. |
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Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
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ARVO PART
Part: Passio The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Recorded March 1988 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone. |
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John Schofield
Solo [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] John Scofield's first guitar-solo-recording ever gives a résumé of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Besides... |
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John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
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John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron
Tramonto [ ECM / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Recorded live in Birmingham during a Contemporary Music Network tour in 2002, Tramonto finds UK pianist John Taylor (1942-2015) in celebratory, outgoing mood, fronting one of his most dynamic and quick-witted groups, with US musicians Marc Johnson... |
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Keith Jarrett
Bordeaux Concert (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett's last European tour. Each of Jarrett's 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore. In the course of this improvised... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |