Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis’s band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Conference of the Birds (Remastered)
It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle’s great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland’s first album as a full-fledged leader. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Down Beat: “Solstice inspires through its expressive openness... revealing depth of texture, nuance and meaning.” Perfect Sound Forever: “The LP is not only one of the moodiest ever published by ECM, but by anyone.” Solstice, recorded 1974, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Ingmar Bergman once said of Andrey Tarkovsky, He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams, and the French-German quartet named after the great Russian filmmaker has developed an associative dream-language of its own. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Berlin-based pianist Julia Hülsmann returns to the trio format for Sooner And Later, an album which distils the experience of journeys to distant destinations. In the last couple of years Hülsmann, bassist ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Keyboardist Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts is the Minneapolis-bred New Yorker’s third ECM release as a leader, a quartet album following the solo Avenging Angel and trio disc Chants. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Beyond being a vocalist of rare purity and daring, Theo Bleckmann is a sound painter who creates what JazzTimes has described aptly as “luminous webs” in music. The German-born New Yorker – ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Point and Line - Debussy & Hosokawa
Born in Osaka, educated at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Momo Kodama is well-placed to approach music from both Eastern and Western vantage points, as she does in this album which ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Toshio Hosokawa (1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies, Piano Quintet
This double album, recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions. On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an „Invariant“ in the life of Berlin-based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
Guitarist John Abercrombie who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 returns with a second album by his quartet featuring kindred-spirit piano foil Marc Copland, along with longtime rhythm ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
Between March 2004 and May 2006 Sir András Schiff performed the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas at the Tonhalle, Zürich, recorded and ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
