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Enrico Rava, Fearless Five with Joe Lovano
Corners [ ECM / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For Corners, Italian trumpeter and long-time label-companion Enrico Rava has once again surrounded himself with a new generation of Italian players eager to defy the paradigm. As a collective they call themselves the Fearless Five - an... |
GEORGS PELĒCIS / ANDRIUS ŽLABYS / ARVO PÄRT
Pages Of A Biography Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica [ ECM New Series / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica ensemble continue the longstanding relationship with ECM's New Series on Pages of a Biography, bringing together music by Georgs Pelēcis, Andrius Žlabys and Arvo Pärt. Pärt's Passacaglia, written for Kremer's... |
Jan Garbarek
Rites (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / 2 LP - due 16/Oct/2026 ] "This is the best work for some time from one of the most individual and innovative of all contemporary jazz musicians. Garbarek is one of the few performers to have a completely distinctive sound and style and, regardless of trends, has steadfastly... |
Keith Jarrett
Roma [ ECM / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Roma is the fifth and final concert recording from Keith Jarrett's highly acclaimed last European solo tour of 2016, captured at the Santa Cecilia Hall in Rome on July 12th. It brings the chapter to a close with music that stands apart even within... |
Keith Jarrett
Roma (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Roma is the fifth and final concert recording from Keith Jarrett's highly acclaimed last European solo tour of 2016, captured at the Santa Cecilia Hall in Rome on July 12th. It brings the chapter to a close with music that stands apart even within... |
Stephan Micus
Traces In The Sand [ ECM / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Dedicated to the sea who carries all music within her Stephan Micus is an extraordinary musical traveller, collecting instruments around the world and then making his unique musical compositions from them. This album features a dozen instruments... |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA / ARVO PÄRT / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GREGORIO ALLEGRI / KOMITAS VARDAPET / ANTONIO LOTTI
Live At Basilica San Marco, Venice The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips [ ECM New Series / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Here is a singular recording of the Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips from the glorious Basilica di San Marco in Venice, recorded on July 14th, 2017. Included in the programme, conceived around Monteverdi's 450th anniversary year, are works by... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 4: Sonatas opp. 26, 27 and 28 (Incls 'Moonlight') Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "So, for those collecting Schiff's cycle, or for those wanting just these four sonatas, there is no need to hesitate. This one is a winner" (Fanfare September 2007) |
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JOHANNES BRAMS
Brahms: Klavierstücke [piano pieces] András Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 18/Sep/2026 ] "Late Brahms played by András Schiff on a beautiful and distinctive-sounding 1859 vintage Blüthner piano, which adds a memorable colour to performances rich in character." Gramophone Bookmark recording Oct 26 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Sonatas & Impromptus András Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "Schiff is a true master of the instrument and knows how to connect its resources to his individual, yet never mannered, Schubertian vision" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2019 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concertos András Schiff (piano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] "What he and the OAE offer is not so much to do with authenticity as with freshness and 'detoxification." Recording of the Month Gramophone July 2021 |
Anouar Brahem
Blue Maqams [ ECM / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Recorded in New York's Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Alina (LP) Vladimir Spivakov, Sergej Bezrodny, Dietmar Schwalke, Alexander Malter [ ECM New Series / LP - released 19/Jun/2026 ] In July 1995, Arvo Pärt and Manfred Eicher convened at Frankfurt's Festeburgkirche with four insightful musicians - the violinist Vladimir Spivakov, the cellist Dietmar Schwalke, and the pianists Alexander Malter and Sergej Bezrodny - to realize a... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley, Brian Blade
Angular Blues (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio... |
Avishai Cohen Quartet
Ashes To Gold [ ECM / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In blazing form, the trumpeter from Tel Aviv responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic.... |
Avishai Cohen Quartet
Ashes To Gold (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In blazing form, the trumpeter from Tel Aviv responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic.... |
Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Naked Truth (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai
Playing The Room (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important... |
Ayumi Tanaka / Thomas Morgen / Thomas Strønen
Windflower [ ECM / CD - released 21/Aug/2026 ] "Sparse, subtle and determined as much by silence as by sound, hers is a music created using deft, fleeting strokes" wrote the BBC Music Magazine of Ayumi Tanaka's Subaqueous Silence. And Windflower reconfirms the potency of a musical approach in... |
Chick Corea
Return to Forever [ ECM Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] Recorded in February 1972, this was initially a solo album by ex-Miles Davis keyboardist, Chick Corea which became the debut for the first incarnation of his legendary group Return to Forever, featuring bassist Stanley Clarke. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Prokofiev, Schnittke, Pärt Duo Gazzana [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] „[The Gazzanas] have played together as siblings since early childhood. But that alone is not enough to explain the special intimacy of their music-making. There is more than familial rapport here; there is something enormously unvarnished in both of... |
Elina Duni, Rob Luft
Reaching For The Moon [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Apr/2026 ] "Few contemporary jazz-influenced singers manage to sound so intensely like themselves while drawing on such a variety of genres, languages, and cultural backstories as the Albania-born vocalist Elina Duni," The Guardian has noted, and Reaching for... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tüür: Aeris Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. |
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
ARVO PART
Part: Passio The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Recorded March 1988 |
Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano
Once Around the Room - A Tribute to Paul Motian [ ECM / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] On Once Around The Room ECM recording artists and key jazz musicians from several generations unite in a small ensemble to celebrate the musical legacy of drum icon Paul Motian in a big way. Joe Lovano and Jakob Bro lead a party of seven through... |
John Schofield
Solo [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] John Scofield's first guitar-solo-recording ever gives a résumé of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Besides... |
John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron
Tramonto [ ECM / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Recorded live in Birmingham during a Contemporary Music Network tour in 2002, Tramonto finds UK pianist John Taylor (1942-2015) in celebratory, outgoing mood, fronting one of his most dynamic and quick-witted groups, with US musicians Marc Johnson... |
Jon Balke
Siwan [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2009 ] Magical music, trailing deep roots. The listener is at first struck by the power of Amina Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble - with soloists drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions,... |
Jon Balke, Siwan
Hafla [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Siwan, the transcultural, trans-idiomatic musical collective led by Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke, continues along its special path, with new music inspired by the creative spirit of Al-Andalus. |
Keith Jarrett
Bordeaux Concert (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett's last European tour. Each of Jarrett's 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore. In the course of this improvised... |
Keith Jarrett
The Köln Concert - Special Edition (Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Dec/2025 ] The Köln Concert - the groundbreaking recording of Keith Jarrett's improvised solo concert at the Cologne opera house - has attained legendary status since its release in 1975. An iconic album and an essential document of the era, few live recordings... |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/Nov/1999 ] "Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide constituency of listeners. His albums would turn up in the collections of people who would otherwise... |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] 24 January 1975 proved a memorable, magical night for the 1300 people who witnessed American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett perform a solo recital in the majestic surroundings of Cologne's opera house. The concert was recorded for posterity by ECM... |
Keith Jarrett
New Vienna - At the Musikverein, 2016 [ ECM / CD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] New Vienna is the fourth concert recording to be released from Keith Jarrett's final European solo tour. It follows Munich 2016, Budapest Concert and Bordeaux Concert. Why New Vienna? As Jarrett aficionados will know, his discography already includes... |
Keith Jarrett
New Vienna - At the Musikverein, 2016 (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 30/May/2025 ] New Vienna is the fourth concert recording to be released from Keith Jarrett's final European solo tour. It follows Munich 2016, Budapest Concert and Bordeaux Concert. Why New Vienna? As Jarrett aficionados will know, his discography already includes... |
Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock
The Old Country [ ECM / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "This particular evening was a warm, humid, rainy autumn night in the Pocono Mountains. The room was full of people and outside on the porch more people listened through the screen doors." Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett's recordings from the Deer... |
Keith Jarrett with Jan Garbarek
My Song [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2010 ] Recorded November 1977. |
Mark Turner
Return From The Stars [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
Mathias Eick
Skala (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 4/Apr/2011 ] Mathias Eick's intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond "jazz". Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he... |
