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
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„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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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„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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
