In the two years since Tomasz Stanko’s much-loved “Soul of Things”, both the trumpeter and his young band have continued to make their mark. Many miles of touring, on both sides of the Atlantic, have honed their already exceptional group understanding. “Suspended Night” builds upon the conceptual ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick makes his ECM debut with The Door. Label mainstays Jon Balke (piano) and Audun Kleive (drums), along with Nils Petter Molvær associate Audun Erlien (bass), forge a memorable session of lyrical crystal. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The uniquely lyrical, liquid and mellifluous sound of Arve Henriksen’s trumpet has had an important supportive role to play on a number of ECM recordings of the last decade. Amongst them – Christian Wallumrød’s “No Birch”, “Sofienberg Variations”, “A Year from Easter” and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The long-awaited album by the Argentinean bandoneon giant Saluzzi and German cellist Lechner, known both for her work with the Rosamunde Quartet and her explorations outside it. It was, for instance, Lechner’s interest in Tango Nuevo that made the ongoing Saluzzi / Rosamunde “Kultrum” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
The third album from one of the most exciting young European bands, “Llyrìa” follows on from “Stoa” and “Holon”, the recordings that established the Swiss band Ronin on the international scene. Leader Nik Bärtsch’s “modular” pieces still define the context of the group’s music ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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”. Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Third Round follows up drummer Manu Katché’s previous ECM albums, Neighbourhood and Playground with his deepest love long yet. Joining him are saxophonist Tore Brunborg, pianist Jason Rebello, bassist Palladino, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Neighbourhood is an astounding, if subdued, meeting of minds. Like other ECM projects of its ilk, this congregation feels as if it arose out of a fundamental and inescapable desire to create music for the sheer enjoyment of it. There is no showing off here. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Pavans And Fantasies From The Age Of Dowland
Violinist John Holloway has carved the deepest Baroque relief into ECM’s surface. With sole exception of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, he has since 1999 been accompanied by harpsichord and organ or cello continuo in thoughtful and superbly executed programs of music by such ...
Composer: John Dowland (1563-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Friedrich Hölderlin: Turmgedichte
Vienna-based artist Christian Reiner reads from the so-called Turmgedichte, or “Tower Poems,” of Friedrich Hölderlin. The German poet has, of course, long been lodged in ECM’s consciousness (see, for example, Scardanelli), though nowhere nearly as long as he was ...
Composer: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Genre: Spoken Word
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Pianist Giovanni Guidi, is one of the most outstanding musicians to have emerged from the ranks of Italian jazz in the last decade and has already made his presence felt on Enrico Rava’s “Tribe” and “On The Dancefloor” albums.
Composer: Giovanni Guidi
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
“Avenging Angel” is Craig Taborn’s distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them.
Composer: Craig Taborn Trio
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
György Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir
Recorded in Amsterdam's Musikgebouw and Haarlem's Philharmonie between March 2013 and July 2016, this triple-album set is a milestone in the documentation of Hungarian composer György Kurtág's work and also a labour of love. It brings together all of Kurtàg's works ...
Composer: György Kurtag (1926)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The reconfigured Bobo Stenson Trio in a performance of characteristically wide arc. Material this time includes original compositions, group improvising and pieces by Peter Eben, Alban Berg, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and – for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double album recorded at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest calibre. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On his second ECM album – following the solo release Arborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic... like a vision quest” – pianist Aaron Parks leads a trio featuring Ben Street and Billy Hart. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger leads a trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron in this warm and involving recording, produced by Manfred Eicher in Oslo, and intensely melodic improvisation draws the listener gently ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM’s many recordings ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
