'Andando el Tiempo' features new music of wide emotional compass by NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. Saints Alive! sets up animated conversations between the
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Béla Bartók / Alfred Schnittke / Witold Lutosławski
The New York Times has praised violinist Miranda Cuckson’s “undeniable musicality,” while Gramophone has declared her “an artist to be reckoned with.” Born in Australia and educated in America, she makes her ECM
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Danish String Quartet, one of the most widely-acclaimed chamber groups of the present moment, makes its ECM debut playing a program of British and Danish music: Thomas Adess Arcadiana (composed 1994), Per Norgards Quartetto Breve
Composer: Thomas Ades (1971), Per Nörgard (1932), Hans Abrahamsen (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After the quartet adventures of Currents and Post Scriptum, Wolfert Brederode returns to a piano trio setting, and Black Ice makes an apt metaphor for his new music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger.
Composer: Wollfett Brederode, Guli Gudmundsson
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Alba is the premiere recording of trumpeter Markus Stockhausen’s duo with pianist Florian Weber, a formation in existence for some six years now. Though very different in their connections to the language of jazz, both musicians
Composer: Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Black Orpheus (In Concert, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall)
Black Orpheus features music drawn from the last solo recital of a highly individual artist, the Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi (1939-2015). It represents the full flowering of Kikuchi’s late style, with an individuality which resists concise
Composer: Masabumi Kikuchi
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
After three studio albums ? 'Stoa' (2006), 'Holon' (2008) and 'Lyria' (2010) ? plus the double-CD 'Live' (2012) with his electric band RONIN, Swiss keyboardist/composer Nik Bärtsch now presents a new recording with his original group MOBILE,
Composer: Nik Bärtsch
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
„Mirror“ is the first ECM New Series album from Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvitz (born 1969), who emphasizes his links to his homeland’s music at several levels. The album begins with a fantasy on a song by Veljo Tormis.
Composer: Tõnu Kõrvitz (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Founded in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris quickly established its reputation as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras. In 2012, Thomas Zehetmair was appointed the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic advisor and on this
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet,
Composer: Vijay Iyer (1971)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
In Concert at Liszt Academy, Budapest
In Concert is Ferenc Snétberger’s first recording for ECM and a coming full circle for the Hungarian guitarist. It is drawn from a live performance at Budapest’s Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he once had formative experiences as a young
Composer: Ferenc Snétberger
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Jazz
Trumpeter Ralph Alessis ECM leader debut 2013s Baida was the album where everything came together for him, according to Nate Chinen in a JazzTimes profile. Without abandoning his yen for oppositional energies, its a beautifully coherent
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
For her third ECM album, Israeli pianist Anat Fort augments her long-established trio - with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider - with a special guest: Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
„The Distance“ represents a grand creative leap for bassist-composer Michael Formanek, following two widely lauded ECM releases featuring his quartet with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner's 'Lathe of Heaven' album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a programme of expansive and
Composer: Avishai Cohen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
What was said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen’s musical palette. His latest trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces the entrancing Afghan-German
Composer: Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Jarle Vespestad, Mathilda Montgomery-Cederhielm, Hans Leo Hassler
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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
