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Weather Report
Mr Gone (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Mr. Gone is the first album from the so-called 'Third Phase' of Weather Report. The composition of the band included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius and Peter Erskine. The latter made its debut in the band on this album. Steve Gadd and... |
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Wes Montgomery
The Complete Full House Recordings (LP) [ Concord / 3 LP - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Released to celebrate influential jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery's centennial, The Complete Full House Recordings brings together all the recordings from the Full House sessions with two previously unreleased performances. Featuring Johnny Griffin,... |
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Wynton Kelly Trio And Wes Montgomery
Smokin' At The Half Note (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] To celebrate Wes Montgomery's centennial on March 6, essential listening for anyone who wants to hear why Wes' live shows were considered the pinnacle of his brilliant and incredibly influential guitar playing. He never played with more drive and... |
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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Instrumentals (LP) [ Jazz Is Dead / 2 LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Features instrumentals from previously released JID albums by: Roy Ayers, Marcos Valle, Azymuth, Doug Carn, Gary Bartz, João Donato, Brian Jackson, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. |
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Adrian Younge And Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Jazz Is Dead (LP) [ Jazz Is Dead / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] This right here is special. Over the last year Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have been making music with the masters. Composing and producing brand new albums with their heroes. This is Jazz Is Dead's presentation of work that has come out... |
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Yusef Lateef
Psychicemotus (Verve By Request Series) (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Lateef runs the gamut musically, from the Coltrane influenced "Semi-Octo" to soulful reads of standards from Hammerstein/Kern, Fats Waller and Erik Satie, and a beautifully rendered original "Bamboo... |
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Alex Cline (percussion, voice) with Aina Kemanis (voice) Jeff Gauthier (violin, viola, voice) Hank Roberts (cello, voice) etc
The Lamp And The Star (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Recorded September 1987 |
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Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
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Andy Sheppard Quartet
Romaria (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Andy Sheppard's quartet extends the musical explorations begun on the 2015 release Surrounded By Sea, an album praised by Télérama for its "poignant serenity." In this new programme of compositions by Sheppard (plus the title track by Brazilian... |
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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... |
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Arild Andersen Group
Affirmation (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] In November 2021, bassist Arild Andersen brought his new quartet with saxophonist Marius Neset, pianist Helge Lien and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen to Oslo's Rainbow Studio. Norway's pandemic travel restrictions having ruled out the participation of... |
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Avishai Cohen
Into the Silence (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner's Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a program of expansive and impressionistic compositions... |
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Barre Phillips
Aquarian Rain (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Jan/2009 ] "I play everything based on what my ear suggests I play, with no objective editing. And my ear is fed by a pool of accumulated musical experiences stored in my memory, mental memory and muscle memory. My active role is to do the best I can to play on... |
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Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Jérôme Regard, Manu Katché
Last Decade (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes his ECM debut with a star-studded quartet of Manu Katché on drums, trumpeter Mathias Eick and Jérôme Regard on bass. Mathias and Manu share a longstanding association with the label and their... |
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Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Mark Turner, Linda May Han Oh, Matthieu Chazarenc
Spindrift (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] Back with a newly formed quintet, gathered together for a particularly fruitful 2024 session in Southern France, the German pianist Benjamin Lackner presents a different and exciting side of his composer-approach. Trumpeter Mathias Eick is the sole... |
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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.... |
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Bill Connors
Of Mist & Melting (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 12/Jun/2026 ] "A subtle tour de force" are the words with which Billboard met guitarist Bill Connors's Of Mist And Melting upon the album's release in 1978; and revisiting this music decades later only confirms that special spirits were indeed at work when the... |
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Bill Evans
Evans In England (LP) [ Resonance Records / 2 LP - released 17/May/2019 ] Limited edition, numbered. 180g vinyl. Evans in England is a vibrant, previously unreleased set of recordings featuring music by lyrical piano master Bill Evans with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell captured during an engagement at... |
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Bill Frisell
Works (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Feb/2018 ] |
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Bjorn Meyer
Provenance (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] There is a distinguished tradition of solo bass albums on ECM, but Provenance is the first to be devoted to the electric bass guitar. Björn Meyer, Swedish-born and Swiss-based, has shaped a unique voice for his instrument inside the most diverse... |