THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Audivi Vocem Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] Edtor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2008 -- "If only all history lessons were delivered as beautifully as this one." |
ARVO PART
Part: Lamentate The Hilliard Ensemble / Alexei Lubimov (piano) / SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 13/Nov/2005 ] "Pärt's moving lament for the living brings from him rarely heard power" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Nov 2005 |
ARVO PART
Litany / Psalom / Trisagion The Hilliard Ensemble / David James (countertenor) / Tallinn Chamber Orchestra [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] The world premiere recording of Arvo Pärt's 'Litany' |
ARCADELT / MARSH / PISANO
Il Cor Tristo The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] One of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, the Hilliard Ensemble, is unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. The programme featured here - released to mark the beginning of the Hilliard Ensemble's 40th... |
PEROTIN
Viderunt omnes / Veni creator spiritus / etc The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Recorded September 1988 |
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Tim Berne (alto saxophone) with Oscar Noriega (clarinet/bass clarinet) & Matt Mitchell (piano, Tack and Wurlitzer pianos)
Shadow Man [ ECM / CD - released 22/Oct/2013 ] Acclaim for the first, eponymous album from saxophonist-composer Tim Berne's acoustic quartet Snakeoil came from far and wide: All About Jazz described the music as "unpredictable and fresh," while The Guardian called it "an object lesson in... |
Jack DeJohnette
Special Edition [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The first version of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, which helped to alert the wider world to the talents of saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe, won the Down Beat Readers' Poll Album of the Year award. Lively programme includes two John... |
Jack DeJohnette (Drums, Piano, Organ) with John Abercrombie (guitars)
Pictures [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
Jack Dejohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison
In Movement [ ECM / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] There is a lot of history concentrated in Jack DeJohnette's adventurous new trio. Fifty years ago, as a guest with John Coltrane's group, Jack DeJohnette played with the fathers of Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison, and the program of In Movement... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows [ ECM / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jakob Bro
Uma Elmo (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 26/Mar/2021 ] With Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. Astonishingly, given the trio's musical synergy, the first time these... |
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Jorge Rossy
Uma Elmo [ ECM / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] With Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. Astonishingly, given the trio's musical synergy, the first time these... |
Jan Garbarek
I Took up the Runes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Jan Garbarek, saxophones, with Nana Vasconcelos & Eberhard Weber, Recorded August 1990. |
Jan Garbarek
I Took Up the Runes (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 24/May/2010 ] One of the Norwegian saxophonists most popular titles, "Runes" also marked the first appearance of Manu Katché with the Garbarek group. The centerpiece of the album is the five-part "Molde Canticle". Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor... |
Jan Garbarek
Paths, Prints [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Jan Garbarek
Places [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Recorded in 1977 in Oslo, Places was an important album for Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and - with its stellar line-up including Americans Jack DeJohnette and Bill Connors - one that also drew significant attention in the US. "How does... |
Jan Garbarek
Twelve Moons [ ECM / CD - released 8/Dec/2008 ] |
Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted 'Record of the Year 1974/75' in Jazz Forum's poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: "Those who think that... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Novum Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Over the immanent, limpid voices Garbarek improvises equally immaculate counter-melodies. His contributions tend to be somewhat predictable, more decoration than improvisation in the fullest sense, but his tone is so pleasing...and the melodies so... |