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Charles Lloyd
The Call [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1993, Charles Lloyd's 'Call' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Gary Burton Quartet
The New Quartet [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] 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... |
George Adams
Sound Suggestions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] George Adams made only one ECM recording, but it's a beauty, placing his powerful tenor sax at the front of a talent-packed group, with Adams, Kenny Wheeler and Heinz Sauer all contributing compositions to the programme. "The spirit of Mingus hovers... |
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
Julian Priester / Pepo Mtoto
Love, Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] After leaving Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band trombonist Julian Priester and synthesizer pioneer Dr Patrick Gleeson put together this now-legendary album in two sessions in 1973. Extending the experiments of the Hancock sextet this music can also be... |
Keith Jarrett
Standards Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The protagonists had already recorded together on Gary Peacock's Tales of Another in 1977, but Jarrett's Standards project, with its dedication to the Great American Songbook, proposed a new sphere of operation, one that would make this trio among... |
Miroslav Vitous
Journey's End [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] This quartet was the primary context for the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous's creativity in the late 70s and early 80s. "Like Mingus, Vitous is a real leader from the bass, and the music is all the stronger for it" - Gramophone. With three excellent... |
Shankar
Song For Everyone [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded September 1984. Over terrifically propulsive percussion by Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, Shankar, on electric double violin, trades solos and shares thrilling unisons with Jan Garbarek. An immediately appealing East/West collaboration. |
Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Part of the 'Touchstones' series of specially-priced and newly packaged albums from ECM's back catalogue. All featuring the original artwork and brand new packaging - double cardboard sleeves reminiscent of the original LPs. Tunisian oud master... |
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Khomsa is an old Tunisian female name meaning "the five fingers of the hand", symbolic of good luck in the Tunisian bedouin tradition. It is also the name of the heroine in Nouri Bouzid's film Bezness - the music for which was composed by Anouar... |
