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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... |
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Keith Jarrett (piano) / Charlie Haden (double bass)
Last Dance (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 2/Oct/2014 ] Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" and Bud Powell's spritely "Dance Of The Infidels". Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Angel Song (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. "Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic" was the verdict with which The Guardian greeted this album on its release in 1997, saying, "Wheeler's compositions and four of the world's greatest improvisers... |
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Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
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Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
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Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
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Kornstad Trio
Im Treibhaus (LP) [ Grappa / LP - released 1/Nov/2019 ] What started as a young Norwegian jazz rebel's sudden passion for the music of the classical canon, has now developed into a musical species of its own. Håkon Kornstad has astonished and touched a steadily growing audience around the world with his... |
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Maciej Obara Quartet
Frozen Silence (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Frozen Silence is the third ECM release from alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's Polish-Norwegian quartet bringing the story forward from Unloved and Three Crowns - and perhaps its strongest musical statement to date. Alert interactivity is the hallmark... |
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Manu Katche
Neighbourhood (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |