Savina Yannatou’s fourth ECM album is a dazzling evocation of her band’s hometown, plunging deep into its rich and complex history. Once known colloquially as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, Thessaloniki has been home to a host of
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Anders Jormin’s new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
German-Iranian singer Cymin Samawatie and her band Cyminology (which she founded in 2002) continue on their unique course, allowing the subtle yet dynamic sounds and rhythms of Persian poetry to influence their compositions
Genre: Jazz
„Encore“ is a companion volume to 'Résumé' (3709457), Eberhard Weber's widely-praised solo album released in 2012. Here he returns to the many live recordings of his tenure with the Jan Garbarek Group, isolating his unique
Composer: Eberhard Weber
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
"Gefion" is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro’s balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The half-Finnish Sinikka Langeland, the kantele player, singer and composer from Finnskogen, south-eastern Norway's 'Forest of the Finns', sets 'The Half-Finished Heaven' - and other verse by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer - on her
Composer: Sinikka Langeland
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
With the spatial grandeur of his native Atlantic coast and the cinematic minimalism of a classic ECM recording, youthful London piano bard Douglas Dare delivers his striking debut, Whelm.
Composer: Douglas Dare
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
There are lots of surprises on this 1972 production. It’s a potpourri of “live” festival big bands with some of the greatest jazz musicians of the time. First off, the Nordic All-Stars. Danish composer-trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg’s ...
Composer: Palle Mikkelborg, Bernard Kawka, Ornette Coleman, Bosko Petrovic
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Break Stuff features Vijay Iyer's long-running and widely-acclaimed trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore, a band in existence for eleven years now. 'We keep learning from each other and from experiences ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, austere, and starkly dramatic, follows Tunisian oud-master Anouar Brahem’s last ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita after a five-year gap. “It took a long time to write this ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Trio Mediæval – three Scandinavian women whose singing produces “a sound of extraordinary and consoling beauty,” says the Boston Globe – offer a collection of polyphony from the medieval to the modern titled after the North Wind ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hamburg ‘72 (Live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg)
The legendary Keith Jarrett Trio, playing live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg in July 1972, is captured at the very apex of its creativity on an album released for the first time by ECM. From the first notes, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi By Prashant Bhargava
Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a vivid multimedia collaboration by composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, who were inspired by the centennial of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky Le Sacre du Printemps to explore ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Jazz Composers Orchestra Update
In 1968, composer-trumpeter Michael Mantler recorded The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra. Released on the JCOA label (and subsequently distributed by ECM), this classic, groundbreaking album of composition and improvisation ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Nine years on from the widely-acclaimed Iron Stone recording, Scottish singer-songwriter, harpist and guitarist Robin Williamson returns with a new album of self-penned pieces – thoughtful and touching meditations on love, ...
Composer: Robin Williamson
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Pianist Anna Gourari’s ECM debut, 2012’s Canto Oscuro, earned praise far and wide. Gramophone declared her version of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne “one of the most riveting on record,” while The Absolute Sound judged the entire disc ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Nicolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Piano
Ketil Bjørnstad’s passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. His settings of Donne’s verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace and the ECM album The Light. “After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
The Norwegian trio Jøkleba was formed in 1990, establishing itself as one of the most unpredictable groups on the Scandinavian scene. The present disc – the fifth Jøkleba album, but the first for ECM – finds old friends Jørgensen, Balke and Kleive working with pulse and colour and texture ...
Composer: Per Jørgensen, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
The fourth ECM album for the Wasilewski Trio adds a special guest, the lyrical Swedish saxophonist Joakim Milder, whom the Poles came to know through performances with Tomasz Stanko’s Litania project. Amongst other affinities, the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
