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Keith Jarrett (piano)
Budapest Concert (Double Gatefold LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour - following on from the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016 - this double album documents the pianist's solo performance at the Béla Bartók National Concert... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Deer Wan (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] The notoriously self-critical trumpeter Kenny Wheeler maintained that Deer Wan (recorded 1976) was his favourite among his own albums ("I like the overall form of this one best"). A tremendous band plays Wheeler's tunes here. Kenny and Jan Garbarek... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Songs for Quintet [ ECM / CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was an unassuming giant of modern jazz, a daring improviser, and a writer of many beautiful and slyly unorthodox tunes. His recorded legacy includes albums now regarded as contemporary jazz classics such as Gnu High, Deer... |
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Lena Willemark
Nordam [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
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Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded June 1981.Flamboyant trumpeter Lester Bowie was a sonic scientist with roots in R & B, the blues and carnival music: his first ECM leader disc good-humoredly explores these elements. |
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VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
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Louis Sclavis / Benjamin Moussay
Unfolding [ ECM / CD - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Having previously joined forces on several Louis Sclavis recordings for ECM, including the clarinettist's last album Characters On A Wall, in recent years Sclavis and pianist Benjamin Moussay increasingly focused on their two-way communication,... |
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Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Concert [ ECM / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] "Transylvanian Concert" marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously organised performance in Targu Mures, in the... |
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Maciej Obara Quartet
Frozen Silence [ ECM / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] Frozen Silence is the third ECM release from alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's Polish-Norwegian quartet bringing the story forward from Unloved and Three Crowns - and perhaps its strongest musical statement to date. Alert interactivity is the hallmark... |
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Mathias Eick
Skala [ ECM / CD - released 2/May/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". |
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Mathias Eick
When We Leave [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's expressive playing, which according to the New York Times radiates a "pristine yet penetrating tone", is remarkably well complemented in the company of his gifted supporting players and fellow travelers. Violinist... |
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Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby [ ECM / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
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Michael Mantler (trumpet)
Coda: Orchestra Suites [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Extending the concept initiated with his critically-acclaimed Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update album, described by Down Beat as "pretty fantastic", Michael Mantler radically reworks music from several phases of his career. On Coda he shapes favourite... |
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Miroslav Vitous
Journey's End [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] This quartet was the primary context for the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous's creativity in the late 70s and early 80s. "Like Mingus, Vitous is a real leader from the bass, and the music is all the stronger for it" - Gramophone. With three excellent... |
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Nana Vasconcelos
Saudades [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This... |
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Near East Quartet
Near East Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] The Near East Quartet has been a force in Korean music since 2010, juxtaposing elements of contemporary jazz and traditional Korean music with pure sound exploration to create new forms. Saxophonist/clarinettist Sungjae Son and guitarist Suwuk Chung... |
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Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli
Renaissance [ ECM / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] Nicolas Masson's acquaintance with his fellow quartet travelers Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli goes back roughly two decades - in this time the players have developed an intimate musical bond, expressed purely and beautifully on... |
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Nik Bärtsch
Entendre [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist best known as leader of the bands Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtch's musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as... |
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Nik Bartsch's Mobile
Continuum [ ECM / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] After three studio albums: 'Stoa' (2006), 'Holon' (2008) and 'Lyria' (2010), plus the double-CD 'Live' (2012) with his electric band Ronin, Swiss keyboardist/composer Nik Bärtsch now presents a new recording with his original group Mobile. Mobile,... |
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Nik Bärtsch (piano)
Entendre (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 23/Jul/2021 ] A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist best known as leader of the bands Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtch's musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as... |