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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
