Voice from the Past - Paradigm (Remaster)
Jazz, sometimes, is like acting: a group of performers starts with a script of prewritten material, which then must be spun into a convincing world of characters. This is not to say that the music isn’t genuine. Quite the contrary: through the art
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
One is often tempted to appreciate Terje Rypdal through the lens of some icy Nordic mystique that, while certainly supported by the sleeves that adorn his music, may ultimately be a myth. Either way, there is something to be
Composer: Terje Rypdal
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ante Lucem, a powerful work for jazz quintet and symphony orchestra by Finnish pianist/harpist/composer Iro Haarla, was commissioned by the Norrlands Opera Symphony Orchestra and its leader Marco Feklistoff and premiered at the Umeå
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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
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
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Robert Schumann
It was not until late in life that Robert Schumann found the path to the violin. A pianist by profession, it almost seems as if his belated interest in the violin had a lasting effect on the performance and reception of his own works for that
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Magical Forest - Sinikka Langelands New folk music work with Trio Mediaeval and outstanding jazz musicians. It is inspiring to find traces and fragments of ideas about the world tree, axsis mundi, in Finnskogen. I have transformed
Composer: Sinikka Langeland
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a strong and supportive presence on a dozen ECM sessions to date. With Rubicon he steps forward to present his own music, with an international cast.
Composer: Mats Eilertsen, Rob Waring, Eirik Hegdal, Harmen Fraanje
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The fifteen ‘miniatures’ of this modestly-titled recording include new music by Italian pianist Glauco Venier as well as adaptations of Gurdjieff, Komitas, Dufay and more. This is Venier’s first solo album for ECM, and as with his exemplary
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Bassist Miroslav Vitous returns once more to the music of the band he co-founded at the beginning of the 1970s, re-evoking and expanding upon the highly improvisational methodology of the original Weather Report.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Dominique Pifarély's quartet, with long-time musical companions Chevillon and Merville and newer associate Antonin Rayon, provides a marvelous context for the full range of the French violinist's expression.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
