An international summit meeting, “Travel Guide” features US guitarist Ralph Towner, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Kazakhstan-born and Australia-raised guitarist Slava Grigoryan. The three musicians first came together ...
Composer: Ralph Towner (*1940), Wolfgang Muthspiel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
John Abercrombie's revised quartet - his last album, 'Within a Song', featured Joe Lovano in the line-up - provides Marc Copland with his first appearance on ECM. Yet the renowned guitarist and pianist are old allies, with an association ...
Composer: John Abercrombie
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow revisit classic Bley compositions in an exceptional album recorded in Lugano last year by Manfred Eicher. Included here are spirited new versions of “Utviklingssang” and “Vashkar”, ...
Composer: Carla Bley
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
South Korean singer Yeahwon Shin’s ECM debut, “Lua ya” is a gentle album of songs and lullabies, recorded in 2012 in the spacious acoustics of Mechanics Hall, near Boston. It’s a very intuitive set, shaped by “improvising, listening to our ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Italy’s creative piano virtuoso Stefano Bollani meets Hamilton de Holanda, Brazil’s peerless master of the bandolim, the 10-string mandolin. O que será is a summery celebration of the joy of music-making, radiating an ...
Composer: Stefano Bollani
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Delightful new project, assembled by Tunisian oud master Brahem with producer Manfred Eicher. Combination of bass clarinet with oud suggests a link to Anouar’s “Thimar” trio, but this East/West line-up often feels closer ...
Composer: Anouar Brahem
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Of the Norwegian artists that ECM has introduced over the years, pianist Tord Gustavsen must count as one of the least “Nordic” in musical temperament. If the contemplative component of his music and its quietude still reflect ...
Composer: Tord Gustavsen
Genre: Jazz
Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has singlehandedly rewritten the history of his instrument, elevating its status to self-contained orchestra. Like a film director whose camera is a third eye, he paints in moving images ...
Composer: Various
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Acoustic Guitar magazine called Brahem/Couturier/Matinier “the oddest trio ever to play contemporary Arabic music”, before going on to laud the work: “The result is far more than an expression of Arabic traditions; ...
Composer: Anouar Brahem
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen views “Being There” as the third instalment of a trilogy that began with “Changing Places” (recorded 2001 and 2002) and continued with “The Ground” (recorded 2004).
Composer: Tord Gustavsen, Harald Johnsen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The fifth ECM disc from Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble whose pioneering work has effectively established a model for a new kind of improvising chamber orchestra, creating fresh colours from the blending and contrasting ...
Composer: Evan Parker [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The ensemble of Christian Wallumrød continues to evolve in its own idiosyncratic way on Outstairs. By now, Wallumrød’s compositional signature is instantly recognizable. Nobody else writes pieces like this – multi-dimensional ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ligeti: String Quartets - Barber: Adagio
An album that bridges musical worlds, with the Molto Adagio of Samuel Barber’s String Quartet No. 1 offered as tonal terra firma between György Ligeti’s restlessly shifting first and second quartets.
Composer: György Ligeti (1923–2006), Samuel Barber
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
From its inception, John Potter’s Dowland Project has drawn upon different musical traditions, including those of ‘early music’ and improvisation. The Night Sessions album emphasizes the Project’s improvisational flexibility, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Praising a previous incarnation of Steve Swallow’s quintet, The Times of London described the band “as near a perfect display of small-group jazz – robust yet exquisitely poised.” The description holds true for the latest ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
'Azure” features beautiful duets by two great improvisers whose compatibility was proven long ago. Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell made outstanding music together in Marilyn’s trio with the late Paul Motian, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Somewhere is a recording of 11 July 2009 from the KKL in Lucerne / Switzerland with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. In 30th Year of its existence is well recognized that the Keith Jarrett Trio 'has set the gold ...
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Morton Feldman: Violin and Orchestra
Carolin Widmann’s widely acclaimed ECM New Series recordings have traversed a broad arc of music – from Schubert to Xenakis.
Composer: Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths
ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova’s music – richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often ...
Composer: Dobrinka Tabakova
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
