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Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Arild Andersen / John Marshall
Achirana [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Arild Andersen introduces a new trio with the highly gifted Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, who makes his ECM debut with 'Achirana'. They are joined by veteran British drummer John Marshall, previously a member of Eberhard Weber's 'Colours'... |
Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen
Aftenland [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Recorded in a Stockholm church in 1979, Aftenland documents a fascinating encounter between Jan Garbarek, improviser par excellence, and classical organist Kjell Johnsen. "Preparing and realizing Aftenland was one of the most interesting experiences... |
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... |
Pat Metheny Group
American Garage [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded June 1979, 'American Garage' is a fine album from Metheny and co which features the aptly titled 13-minute track "The Epic". |
Dino Saluzzi
Andina [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Dino Saluzzi's solo bandoneon breathes songs of Andean mountain villages, family histories, the changing seasons and more, and draws you into the player's world of memory, where chorales and tangos and waltzes resound. Saluzzi epitomises the... |
John Abercrombie
Animato [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded October 1989. John Abercrombie's guitar is framed and supported by composer Vince Mendoza's quasi-orchestral use of synthesizers. Jon Christensen's drums add acoustic commentary. |
Keith Jarrett
At The Blue Note (Third CD) [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Previously released only in the US, this single disc drawn from the At The Blue Note box embodies all the characteristics that made Jarrett's trio for many listeners the preeminent group in all of jazz. The qualities of respect for the material and... |
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... |
Paul Bley
Ballads [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] First released in the spring of 1971, these historic recordings from March and July 1967 capture the sound of a genre being born in the free ballads of Annette Peacock, played with extraordinary sensitivity by Paul Bley's trio. Annette Peacock:... |
Tomasz Stanko
Balladyna [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Tomasz Stanko's 'Balladyna' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Marc Johnson, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Peter Erskine
Bass Desires [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1985, Marc Johnson's 'Bass Desires' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digipak cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
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Ralph Towner
Batik [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of Ralph Towner's 'Batik' album, which was recorded in January 1978. |
Terje Rypdal
Blue [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Terje Rypdal, Bjørn Kjellemyr, and Audun Kleive continue where they left off on Chaser with this equally memorable set. Blue is not a companion album, however. It is the yin to the other's yang: on the surface they are solid teardrops of color, but... |
John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman's improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
David Torn
Cloud About Mercury [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Everything is in a state of transition," David Torn explained. "Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change." The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose... |
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Collin Walcott
Cloud Dance [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in March 1975, Collin Walcott's 'Cloud Dance' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Susanne Abbuehl
Compass [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Compass is a voyage at many levels: through music and text, with images evoking the freshness of sea air and the colours of wildflowers. A voyage through polar extreme of jazz - from Chick Corea to Sun Ra, through folk song in the slipstream of... |
