UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s second ECM album introduces his freely lyrical new trio with Michel Benita and Sebastian Rochford. All three players share a sense of stylistic open-mindedness.
Composer: Andy Sheppard
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
After compelling contributions to ECM discs by David Torn and Michael Formanek, here is Tim Berne’s first leader date for the label. “Snakeoil” introduces a fascinating ensemble, a “chamber-like group” in Berne’s words, ...
Composer: Tim Berne
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Two years after “Restored, Returned” introduced this line-up and with extensive touring behind them, on “The Well” the four musicians of the Gustavsen Quartet really blossom as a band in a programme of new tunes by Tord.
Composer: Tord Gustavsen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Schubert: Fantasie C-Dur / Rondo h-Moll / Sonate A-Dur
Carolin Widmann, who received praise and awards both for her accounts of Schumann’s violin sonatas and for the recital disc “Phantasy of Spring” (with music of Feldman, Zimmermann, Schoenberg and Xenakis) ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Precipitando - Alban Berg / Leoš Janáček / Franz Liszt
After important contributions to Heinz Holliger’s “Romancendres” and acclaimed performance, with Carolin Widmann, of Schumann’s Violin Sonatas, here is the first New Series solo recording from Hungarian pianist ...
Composer: Alban Berg, Leoš Janáèek, Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos / Piano
Sofia Gubaidulina: Canticle Of The Sun
Two major works by Sofia Gubaidulina comprise this album: “The Lyre of Orpheus” (composed in 2006), for violin, percussion and string orchestra, and “The Canticle of the Sun” (1997, rev. 1998), for violoncello, chamber choir,
Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina (1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
“Mirror” is the first studio album by the Lloyd-Moran-Rogers-Harland unit and it features beautiful, transformed versions of favourites including both Lloyd originals and tunes Charles has made his own over the years. There is a pair of Thelonious Monk tunes, “Ruby, My Dear” and “Monk’s Mood”, as well as hymns and...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Rabo de Nube captures a phenomenal show by the legendary, seventy-yer-old saxophonist/flutist Charles Lloyd, with his new quartet featuring pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. This recording exudes everything that makes jazz such a vibrant art.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Gustavsen's earlier albums have been for a low-lights piano trio, but this is a quartet set featuring the excellent Jan Garbarek-inspired saxophonist Tore Brunborg, plus guest appearances from singer Kristin Asbjørnsen...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Recorded at Dresden’s Alte Schlachthof in October 2007, this two-CD set is the first-ever live album to be issued under Jan Garbarek’s name. “Dresden”, a fiery and powerful performance and a fine document of the Norwegian ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
'Stone in the Water' is exemplary in its understatement. Without even a moment of grandstanding nor a break in the trio’s concentrated interaction, this album might better have been named Water Over Stones such is its smooth, fluid motion. ...
Composer: Stefano Bollani, Jesper Bodilsen, Morten Lund
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
A new transatlantic quintet headed by Italian trumpeter Rava, recorded in New York in 2008 and a first ECM appearance for US tenorist Mark Turner, whose distilled, lean sound references Coltrane, Warne Marsh, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
'January” is a strong musical statement from a still-young band with a long history already behind it, and an album with an exceptionally wide-ranging programme - all of it played with assurance, purpose and focus. ...
Composer: Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Jarrett and Haden back together again! Thirty three years after the break-up of Keith Jarrett’s great ‘American quartet’ , the pianist and bassist Charlie Haden reunited for an album of standards, played with deep feeling.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Testament - Paris / London is yet another high water mark for Jarrett, and all the more remarkable considering how many solo performances he's already released. We may never truly know why Jarrett chooses to release ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
