'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
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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
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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
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier
As a young pianist, András Schiff earned wide esteem for his 1980s recordings of the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach; in recent years, as part of his long-term ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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Kurtág / Ligeti: Music for Viola
Kim Kashkashian has long been one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern composition and this bold and subtle account of solo music by the great Hungarian composers Kurtág and Ligeti is a landmark recording.
Composer: Kurtág / Ligeti
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
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It was only after Michael Jackson’s death that Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava gradually became aware that he had for many years been ignoring, in his words, “one of the great protagonists of 20th century music and dance.
Composer: Michael Jackson Clark
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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An astonishing double-album documentation of a great band at the peak of its powers, “Sleeper” features a complete and previously unreleased concert recording of Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’, otherwise known as ‘Belonging’, ...
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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Dans les arbres – the unique improvising quartet comprising three Norwegians and a Frenchman – continues to fine-tune its artistic concept, patiently traversing its luminous planes of sound with a rare sense of accord, ...
Composer: Christian Wallumrød, Xavier Charles, Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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Odyssey - In Studio & in Concert
Terje Rypdal‘s Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert is a very special release. It includes not only the complete Odyssey album (recorded 1975) in high-resolution audio (Studio Master) for the first time ...
Composer: Terje Rypdal
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
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Louis Sclavis’s band of the season is the Atlas Trio, an ensemble with a global reach of reference. Chamber-improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, minimalistic pulse patterns, enveloping ambience, rhapsodic ...
Composer: Louis Sclavis
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
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John Surman is an exceptionally versatile musician and his instrumental prowess has been showcased in many contexts. Yet his solo albums may be the best sources for insights into his melodic imagination.
Composer: John Surman
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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Bassist Arild Andersen shines as the principal soloist in a celebration of music from ECM with specially-commissioned new big-band arrangements of well-known pieces by Dave Holland, Chick Corea, Trygve Seim, Jan Garbarek, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Hirundo Maris is Latin for “sea swallow” and, like that bird’s nomadic flight, harpist Arianna Savall’s quintet – part early music ensemble, part folk group – drifts on musical currents between Norway and Catalonia, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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Wisdom and wistfulness are intertwined in “Wisteria”, whose title track, written by Art Farmer, takes us back to the early 60s, when both Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow sang softly of the blues in the trumpeter-flugelhornist’s band.
Composer: Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow & Joey Baron
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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On its second ECM album, recorded in New York last year, Fly continues to overturn the conventions of the sax/bass/drums trio. Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard share freedom and responsibilities ...
Composer: Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier & Jeff Ballard
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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“Within A Song” celebrates the spirit of discovery that illuminated the jazz of the 1960s, as John Abercrombie declares his musical loyalties in a quartet album that pays tribute to a range of early influences ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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Witold Lutosławski / Béla Bartók: Musique funèbre
Dennis Russell Davies has had a long-running and highly productive association with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – documented on exceptional ECM recordings of repertoire from Mozart to Kancheli ...
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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An ECM debut from Masabumi Kikuchi and a last session from the great Paul Motian. Motian and Kikuchi were friends for many years and Paul understood the idiosyncracies and the wayward charm of the Japanese pianist’s ...
Composer: Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Motian, Thomas Morgan
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
