Search Results: Luminessence Series
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Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 16/May/2025 ] An unsung modernist classic from 1974 - Pitchfork Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Brown's Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun.... |
Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell)
Old and New Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Nov/2012 ] Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but the repertoire of their Old and New Dreams quartet soon blossomed into a project of much wider scope, addressing also the... |
Nana Vasconcelos
Saudades [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This... |
Annette Peacock
An Acrobat's Heart (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "Incomparable" is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit called this album on its release in the year 2000, before going on to describe the music as follows: "A high, warm voice sings fragile songs, Annette Peacock accompanies herself on the grand... |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Volume 1 (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 18/Apr/2025 ] ECM's pioneering documentation of solo piano music was one of the genre-changing experiments of the early 1970s, and this beautifully recorded session, capturing Chick Corea in Oslo's Bendiksen Studio in April 1971, marked the beginning of this new... |
Gary Burton Quartet
The New Quartet (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at... |
Gary Peacock, Ralph Towner
Oracle (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jan/2026 ] The charming, thoughtfoul Oracle conveys the familiarity and empathy of partners who have worked together for years - light touch, intricacy and sensitivity pervade the session. Oracle wins you over with its warmth and melodicism. - Downbeat, 1994 ... |
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
Madar (LP) [ ECM (Luminessence Series) / 2 LP - released 7/Nov/2025 ] Madar powerfully captures the only recorded coming together of these respective masters of their distinctive instruments: Shaukat Hussain on tabla, Anouar Brahem on oud and saxophonist Jan Garbarek. "Manfred [Eicher] proposed that we might invite... |
Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series) / 3 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Recorded March & July 1973 |
Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence (LP) [ ECM (Luminessence Series) / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Mysterious, dramatic and alluring, Luminessence comes from a peak period in the creative association between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, recorded in 1974, immediately after their vibrant Belonging album. Here, Jarrett creates shimmering... |
Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in June 1975, Kenny Wheeler's 'Gnu High' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Amaryllis (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway" in 1997. Material heard on "Amaryllis" is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known - almost... |
Naná Vasconcelos
Saudades (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This 'concerto' for an innovative player of a... |
Pat Metheny
Bright Size Life (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Pat Metheny had debuted at ECM as a member of Gary Burton's band on the album Ring in 1974, but Bright Size Life, his first studio recording as a leader, was the album that decisively put him on the map as a bright new force, with something fresh to... |
Paul Bley
Open, to Love (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] After Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations, and Keith Jarrett's Facing You, Paul Bley's Open, To Love was the third fabulous chapter in ECM's quietly revolutionary solo piano manifesto, whose impact endures and continues to influence improvisers today.... |
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
