Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, La notte is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
After two acclaimed trio albums (The End of a Summer and Imprint), pianist Julia Hülsmann proposes a different project for her third ECM release In Full View, motivated initially by a performance by Berlin-based, English ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves
Following on from Victor Kissine’s luminous orchestration of Schubert’s String Quartet in G Major (ECM 1883) and his own “Zerkalo” with Kremer and friends (ECM 2202), here is the first ECM album devoted entirely to the ...
Composer: Victor Kissine
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
A collaborative group brimming with creative potential, Third Reel packs much musical information into the sixteen vividly expressive tracks of its debut album.
Composer: Various
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Quercus’ means ‘oak’ in Latin and the roots of this particular tree dig deep into British folk music, while leaves and branches reach upward to embrace jazz-inspired lyrical improvising.
Composer: Various
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Czech singer/player/composer Iva Bittová has said: “The violin is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination. I believe there are fundamentals to my performance, such as the music’s vibration and resonance between ...
Composer: Iva Bittová
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
“Hagar’s Song”, the newest release from long-time ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is an interactive duo recording with Jason Moran, the pianist who has been a key member of Lloyd’s latter-day quartet, contributing ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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
