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Bill Connors
Of Mist and Melting [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A guitarist's guitarist, Bill Connors has always had the admiration of his peers. Steve Tibbetts recently praised Connors's "left-hand vibrato, his sense of space, his liquid phrasing, the way he lingers on a note" - all qualities in evidence on... |
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The interaction of Eberhard Weber's highly distinctive bass and Rainer Brüninghaus' lyrical piano is at the heart of a number of popular ECM recordings, starting with Weber's Colours of Chloë, and extending through the discographies of the Colours... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Miroslav Vitous/Jan Garbarek
Atmos [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Jan Garbarek is my favorite sax player," Miroslav Vitous has said. "We have an incredible musical rapport and you can hear it. He understands my Slavic melodies and what I use for atmosphere because he's European and his father was Polish, which is... |
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. |
Barre Phillips
Mountainscapes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Barre Phillips's Mountainscapes brings together strongly contrasting elements, the furious high-energy playing of the Surman/Phillips/Martin trio juxtaposed with spacious impressionistic pieces originally created for Carolyn Carlson's ballet dancers.... |
Chick Corea
Children's Songs [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded July 1983. These solo piano pieces, simple-yet-profound (comparisons have been made with Bartók's Makrokosmos), have lost none of their charm. |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York ("where my idols were, all the people... |
