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Django Bates' Beloved
The Study of Touch [ ECM / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, The Study of Touch. All three musicians are highly... |
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Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell)
Old and New Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Nov/2012 ] Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but the repertoire of their Old and New Dreams quartet soon blossomed into a project of much wider scope, addressing also the... |
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Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
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Eleni Karaindrou
Eternity and a Day [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "Greece's most eleoquent living composer" |
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Elina Duni Quartet
Matane Malit [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Matanë Malit" (Beyond the mountain), Elina Duni's ECM debut, is a homage to Albania. A singer looking at her roots from a present-day vantage point as a musician engaged in improvisational processes. Jazz experience informs her exploration of Balkan... |
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Elina Duni with Rob Luft & Fred Thomas
Lost Ships [ ECM / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Elina Duni and Rob Luft's programme of songs of love and exile has been gathering momentum since 2017, when the Albanian-Swiss singer and the British guitarist began their collaboration. Along the way the duo has been augmented by distinguished... |
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Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Records / CD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] Recorded June 2003 |
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Enrico Rava / Stefano Bollani
The Third Man [ ECM Records / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] This is a beautiful duo album by two of Italy's greatest jazz musicians. The recording features marvellous linear playing, beautiful melodies plucked from the air.. |
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ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tuur: Lost Prayers Erkki Sven-Tüür [ ECM New Series / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "... it's in Fata Morgana and especially Lichttürme (Towers of Light) where the harmonic fields are most resonant, the piano in each case affording a rippling sustain that unites the earthly with the ethereal. " Classical-music |
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SNÉTBERGER / SHOSTAKOVICH / DOWLAND / BARDER
Hallgató Ferenc Snétberger and the Keller Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] On Hallgató, recorded live in the Grand Hall of Budapest's Liszt Academy, Ferenc Snétberger and the Keller Quartett, respectively Hungary's outstanding acoustic guitarist and its foremost string quartet, are heard together and separately in a moving... |
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Fred Hersch Trio
The Surrounding Green [ ECM / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
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Gary Burton (vibraphone), with Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Eberhard Weber & Chick Corea
Works [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] Original recording released in 1984 |
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The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' 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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Gary Peacock, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette
Tales Of Another [ ECM / CD - released 1/Sep/1977 ] |
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George Adams
Sound Suggestions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] George Adams made only one ECM recording, but it's a beauty, placing his powerful tenor sax at the front of a talent-packed group, with Adams, Kenny Wheeler and Heinz Sauer all contributing compositions to the programme. "The spirit of Mingus hovers... |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Sonatas for Violin Solo Gidon Kremer (violin) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] The three sonatas of Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, written in 1964, 1967 and 1979, are among the most richly creative and technically challenging 20th century works for solo violin, and their radical expressivity draws the listener in. Gidon... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Chiaroscuro Gidon Kremer (violin) with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Kremerata Baltica [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] "..wide-ranging spectrum of tone, colour and dynamics, and that is what Gidon Kremer and his wonderful orchestra produce in Chiaroscuro, backed up by a superbly rich and detailed recording." Five Stars BBC Music |
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GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Gurdjieff: Zartir The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The third album from Levon Eskenian's remarkable ensemble is its most adventurous to date. As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and... |
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GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Gurdjieff: Zartir (LP) The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian [ ECM / LP - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The third album from Levon Eskenian's remarkable ensemble is its most adventurous to date. As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and... |
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HEINER GOEBBELS
Goebbels: A House Of Call - My Imaginary Notebook Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Vimbayi Kaziboni [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] A House of Call is a cycle of invocations, prayers, poems and songs for large orchestra. It incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters. The... |