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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... |
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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... |
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Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron
Streams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2016 ] On his second leader album for ECM - following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between Bro and... |
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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... |
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Jan Garbarek
In Praise Of Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] "In Praise of Dreams" - Jan Garbarek's first new album in six years - features two musicians with whom the great Norwegian saxophonist shares some history - American-Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian and African-French drummer Manu Katché. Garbarek,... |
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Jan Garbarek
Places (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] 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... |
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Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers... |
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Joe Lovano
Paramount Quartet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The "Paramount" in Joe Lovano's new quartet can be interpreted as a statement of intent. "I feel like at this point I'm on the rise," Joe says, seemingly unaware of the decades of experience and several dozens of leader-recordings under his belt.... |
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John Abercrombie
Gateway (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. CD from the "Touchstones" Series. With "daring and visionary spirit", to quote a Downbeat review from the year of this album's release, master improvisers John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette... |
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John Abercrombie
Timeless (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] John Abercrombie's ECM debut Timeless (recorded 1974) has proven to be exactly that. This fiery session with Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer still sounds as fresh as the year it was released. "Timeless comes as a major surprise in terms of its depth,... |
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John Abercrombie Quartet
Up and Coming (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Guitarist John Abercrombie - who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 - returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group's... |
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John Scofield
John Scofield (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/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... |
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John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
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Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Jan/2009 ] |
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Keith Jarrett
Belonging (LP) [ ECM / LP ] |
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Keith Jarrett
Munich 2016 (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 1/Nov/2019 ] A solo concert from Keith Jarrett - recorded at Munich's Philharmonie on July 16, 2016, on the last night of a European tour - finds the great improvising pianist at a peak of invention. Creating a spontaneous suite of forms in the moment with the... |
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Keith Jarrett
My Song (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
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Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series) / 3 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Recorded March & July 1973 |
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Keith Jarrett
Still Live (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] |
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Keith Jarrett
The Survivors' Suite (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Apr/2017 ] One of the best recordings for Keith Jarrett's mid-'70s American quartet (whose style differed sharply from its European doppelgänger), The Survivors' Suite opens with Jarrett's aching, breathy sigh on the bass recorder, evoking the sound of a horn... |