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The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone once again casts her net wide for source material for this third ECM album with Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German clarinetist and saxophonist Klaus Gesing.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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directions established on their acclaimed 2011 release “The River of Anyder” with a new selection of chants, hymns and dances, all written by Battaglia ...
Composer: Stefano Battaglia Trio
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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“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.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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This exceptional live 1979 radio date features four of the top international vibraphone players of the period. Karl Berger was a major figure in the New York Avant-garde scene, playing and recording with Don Cherry, and, along with
Composer: Dave Friedman, Tom van der Geld, Karl Berger, Wolfgang Lackerschmid
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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'Someone blind', the first album of the Klaus Gertken Trio, recorded in 1992 with high-end audio engineering and a Bösendorfer grand piano in a Berlin backyard studio, was recently rediscovered in Japan where it reached astonishing
Composer: Klaus Gertken
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Wolfgang Muthspiel whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists made his ECM leader debut in 2014 with the trio disc Driftwood, featuring him alongside two longtime colleagues, bassist Larry
Composer: Wolfgang Muthspiel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Among Kenny Wheeler’s cleverly punned titles, Deer Wan takes the cake. For his second ECM album as headliner, the prodigious trumpeter/fluegelhornist serves up a set of four originals—three long and one short—sure to enliven any
Composer: Kenny Wheeler
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Arcanum - Dmitri Shostakovich, Lera Auerbach
Kim Kashkashian introduces a duo with Russian composer-pianist Lera Auerbach. Their first collaborative recording features Auerbach’s viola and piano version of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes op. 34, and Auerbach’s own,
Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich (1975), Lera Auerbach (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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On his second leader album for ECM – following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The Declaration of Musical Independence
The great jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille – whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading the collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman – makes his ECM leader debut with The
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Ida Lupino is a fresh and creative album, distinguished by deep listening and focused interaction. At its centre is the remarkable improvisational rapport of two Italian musicians – pianist Giovanni Guidi and trombonist Gianluca Petrella.
Composer: Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Putrella, Gerald Cleaver
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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For this recording, Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang came together as a quartet at the invitation of Manfred Eicher, and Atmosphères captures the newly-formed group’s evocative music as it unfolded in a
Composer: Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim introduces his new quartet and a wide-ranging programme of compositions which draw inspiration from the poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi. With pieces variously influenced by the classical Lieder tradition,
Composer: Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Air - Bent Sørensen & Hans Abrahamsen
Frode Haltli, the uniquely expressive Norwegian accordionist, is heard here with chamber orchestra, with string quartet and solo, performing music by Danish composers Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) and Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952).
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
