After two exemplary ECM discs in the company of Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita has an album with his own group, Ethics, marking his label debut as a leader. The Ethics band is international, and the Algiers-born bassist leads a line-up
Composer: Michel Benita, Kathryn Tickell, Mieko Miyazaki, Eyvind Alnaes
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. The best thing I caught all weekend, said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, was a superb trio led by drummer Ches
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Guitarist Ben Monder first recorded for ECM as a member of the Paul Motian Band on “Garden of Eden” in 2004, and Amorphae was originally conceived as a series of duets for Ben and Paul. A first exploratory duo session was recorded in
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The British/Norwegian Food duo of Iain Ballamy and Thomas Str nen are joined by Austrian guitarist and electronics player Christian Fennesz for a new album of powerful grooves, evocative textures and exploratory improvisation, sometimes
Composer: Thomas Strønen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
This triple album set with recordings from 1978 to 1980, issued in ECM s acclaimed Old & New Masters series, returns some historically-important material to the catalog, namely the albums Arcade, Abercrombie Quartet and M. The quartet
Composer: John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach, George Mraz
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The untitled ECM double-album debut of young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg is an arrestingly original musical statement. „Jazz“ players and „Classical“ players are drawn
Composer: Mette Henriette
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
„Time Is A Blind Guide“ is both the title of Thomas Strønen's album and the name of his new Norwegian-British ensemble. In contrast to Food (his band with English saxophonist Iain Ballamy and guests) and its electronic soundscapes, this is an
Composer: Thomas Strønen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The great Georgian composer’s twelfth ECM New Series album features first recordings of two major works: Chiaroscuro for violin and chamber orchestra, and Twilight for two violins and chamber orchestra. Gidon Kremer and
Composer: Gija Kantscheli (1935-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
US concert pianist Anthony de Mare pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim in a fascinating project. De Mare invited contemporary composers from a broad variety of genres - from Sondheim's own world of musical theatre to jazz,
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen
Swiss composer Heinz Holliger’s Machaut-Transkriptionen is comprised of a spacious cycle of pieces written over a ten year period beginning in 2001. An imaginative re- investigation of the work of the great 14th century French
Composer: Heinz Holliger (1939-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
The Armenian Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to play ‘ethnographically authentic’ arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. Their debut album on ECM, Music of
Composer: Georg Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1877-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage: Rothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel addresses a network of musical relationships and inspirations. The album opens with Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, named for the Houston, Texas multi-faith chapel built to house Mark Rothko’s site-specific paintings.
Composer: John Cage (1912-1992), Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Erkki-Sven Tüür & Brett Dean: Gesualdo
This absorbing project finds Australian composer Brett Dean and Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür drawing inspiration in very different ways from the music, life and times of Carlo Gesualdo and juxtaposes these reflections with Gesualdo’s
Composer: Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959-), Brett Dean (1961-), Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Drawn from jubilee concerts at Stuttgart's Theaterhaus in January 2015 to mark the 75th birthday of the great German bassist Eberhard Weber, this is a remarkable live album incorporating big band arrangements of Weber compositionsv
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa (Remastered 2015)
In celebration of Arvo Pärt's 80th birthday, ECM presents the remastered 'Tabula rasa' in 96 kHz. This recording launched the New Series in 1984, and the interpretations of Pärt's unique compositions by a cast including Gidon Kremer, Keith
Composer: Arvo Pärt (1935-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Pianist Tigran Hamasyan’s ECM debut is an extraordinary exploration of Armenian sacred music. Hamasyan has selected hymns and sharakans (Armenia’s liturgical songs) as well as chants by Grigor Narekatsi, Nerses Shnorhali,
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
The distinctive cry of Sokratis Sinopoulos’ lyra has previously been heard on ECM recordings of Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri (Athens Concert) and Eleni Karaindrou (Trojan Women, The Weeping Meadow, Elegy of the Uprooting,
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
French violinist Dominique Pifarély – last heard on ECM a decade ago on Stefano Battaglia’s Re: Pasolini – returns to the label with an outstanding solo violin recital, drawn from performances at the Auditorium Saint-Germain in Poitiers and
Composer: Dominique Pifarély
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This „Wild Dance“ is a cross-generational project by the grand master of Italian Jazz. Energized by joyous experiences on the road the ever youthful Enrico Rava took his new working quartet of the last two years into Arte Suono Studio in Udine.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
In the Morning - Music Of Alec Wilder
On his sixth album for ECM the Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia presents music with a special thematic focus: While his ECM debut Raccolto (2003) had honored his musical heroes Bill Evans and Paul Bley, Re:Pasolini (2007) was a
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
