Like his early hero Miles Davis, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has a gift for shaping great bands, and this one, formed in the world’s jazz capital, overflows with promise. The bass and drums team of Thomas Morgan ...
Composer: Wislawa Symborska, Tomasz Stanko
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
“The Sirens” is acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter’s ECM debut as a leader, an album of mood and melody inspired by The Odyssey – both its epic atmosphere and its timeless humanity.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
“Hymns/Spheres”, Keith Jarrett’s celebrated 1976 encounter with the Trinity organ of Ottobeuren’s Benedictine abbey, is at last released in 24bit Studio-Master quality as a double-album set remastered from the original analog tapes.
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Special Edition – a band with revolving membership and an incredible cast of soloists including David Murray, Arthur Blythe and Chico Freeman – was one of the most sophisticated vehicles for ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“As the title says, there is nothing but guitar”, José Luis Montón remarks in a brief and self-effacing liner note. Just an acoustic guitar, and an astonishing guitarist.
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar / Flamenco
Norwegian guitarist Eivind Asarset has contributed to a number of influential ECM recordings including Nils Petter Molvær’s “Khmer” and “Solid Ether”, Arve Henriksen’s “Cartography”, Andy Sheppard’s ...
Composer: Eivind Aarset
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Experimental
“Résumé” is a ‘live album’ with a difference. The twelve concert recordings include here, made at locations from Amsterdam to Santiago, provide the source material from which Eberhard Weber has sculpted something new.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
A fascinating set from three strong and contrasting musical personalities: Norwegian saxophonist, Brazilian guitarist-pianist, and US bassist making purposeful and creative music together on this previously unreleased live recording.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Marshalling orchestral and choral forces under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste, this new Arvo Pärt album, produced by Manfred Eicher and realized, like all Pärt’s ECM albums, with the composer’s participation, is a major event.
Composer: Siluan von Athos (1866-1938)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Four years after “Cantando”, a new album from the Bobo Stenson Trio – recorded in Lugano last December – explores a broad arc of material. Here we find: free playing (the trio has its own, fresh approach to collective improvising ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Eponymously-titled album from Manu Katché. On his fourth ECM album, Manu’s unique drumming sets the scene and direction, with compositions and arrangements radiating outward from its rhythm-patterns.
Composer: Manu Katché
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Anna Gourari is a young musician steeped in the venerable Russian piano school, its technical verities and Old World glamour. She has “a very physical, even visceral quality to her music-making that conjures the sound ...
Composer: J.S. Bach, F. Busoni, P. Hindemith, S. Gubaidulina
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Avant-Garde
Franz Schubert: Moments Musicaux & Sonata, D850
Pianist Valery Afanassiev – renowned for his strikingly individual and deeply introspective interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert – has paired two often extrovert works by the composer: the set of six Moments ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
'Equilibrium“ is the ECM debut of a German/ American/ Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years.
Composer: Benedikt Jahnel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Swept Away sees the top-class quartet of pianist Eliane Elias, double bassist Marc Johnson, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Joe Lovano commune over music that is engaging and sensual, lyrical and swinging.
Composer: Eliane Elias
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
'Small Places' is double-bassist/composer Michael Formanek’s follow-up to The Rub and Spare Change, his widely lauded ECM debut as a leader.
Composer: Michael Formanek
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Ronin around the world: a powerful and atmospheric concert recording with music captured in Germany, Austria, Holland, England, and Japan, a double-album which transmits the live impact of Nik Bärtsch’s band ...
Composer: Nik Bärtsch
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
A fresh approach to one of contemporary composition’s most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Early Cage is the subject here, strikingly original songs and piano pieces ...
Composer: John Cage (1912–1992), James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
