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Paul Bley
Open, to Love (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] After Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations, and Keith Jarrett's Facing You, Paul Bley's Open, To Love was the third fabulous chapter in ECM's quietly revolutionary solo piano manifesto, whose impact endures and continues to influence improvisers today.... |
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Paul Giger, Puierre Favre, Jan Garbarek
Alpstein (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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Rainer Brüninghaus, Kenny Wheeler, Jon Christensen, Brynjar Hoff
Freigeweht (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Released in 1981, the debut of the legendary keyboardist from Eberhard Weber's Colours band and later the Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht presented Rainer Brüninghaus as a highly original and idiosyncratic sound sculptor in his own right, accompanied... |
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Ralph Towner
Solstice (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Solstice, recorded 1974, belongs to the great early production projects of ECM, with a new band formed in the studio. It's the first of Towner's recorded encounters with the European players, and this US-Norwegian-German quartet has a character all... |
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Ralph Towner
Works (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/Dec/2008 ] Works is a compilation album of Ralph Towner's finest from his prolific career at ECM, released in 1984 to celebrate the label's 15th anniversary. |
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Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie
Five Years Later (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 22/Sep/2008 ] As part of the story of our listening series this historical title has been mastered from original analog sources and reissued in January 2014. |
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Shai Maestro
Human (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] In its review of pianist Shai Maestro's ECM leader debut The Dream Thief, All About Jazz spoke of "a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music." All of which also applies to Human, where Maestro's... |
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Shankar / Caroline
The Epidemics (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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Stan Getz & Bill Evans
Stan Getz & Bill Evans (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Recorded in 1964 but not released until 1973, this classic double- header also features an all-star rhythm section of Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. |
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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
Jazz Samba (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] This famous 1962 collaboration sounds as fresh today as it did when it was released. An all-time classic album including evergreen versions of Desafinado, O Pato and One Note Samba. |
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Stephan Micus
Darkness And Light (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Born in 1953 in Germany, Stephan Micus made his first journey to the Orient at the age of sixteen. Fascinated by the variety of musical cultures around the world Micus has travelled in virtually every Asian and European country as well as in Africa... |
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Terje Rypdal
Waves (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Terje Rypdal's Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist's association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje's most enduringly popular pieces, "Per... |
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Thomas Strønen / Lucus
Time Is A Blind Guide (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative... |
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Tomasz Stanko
Balladyna (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 15/May/2026 ] An essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians - in Poland and Finland above all, though it also... |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Seeing (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] With Seeing, Tord Gustavsen begins an intricate new chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, initiated in 2003 with Changing Places - an album that is today considered a classic. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms... |
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Arne Domnerus, Bengt Hallberg, Lars Erstrand, Georg Riedel, Egil Johansen
Jazz at The Pawnshop Volume 1 (LP) [ Proprius Records / 2 LP - released 11/Jul/2005 ] Jazz at the Pawnshop is a multi-session recording made by Gert Palmcrantz on December 6-7, 1976, at Jazzpuben Stampen (Pawnshop) in Stockholm, Sweden. A pawnshop had operated on the site prior to the jazz club. Proprius Records founder Jacob Boethius... |
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Markus Stockhausen, Gary Peacock, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Zoro Babel
Cosi Lontano...Quasi Dent (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
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Wes Montgomery w/ the Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (LP) [ Resonance / LP - released 22/Apr/2017 ] Previously unreleased live sets featuring jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery with piano legend Wynton Kelly's Trio featuring bassist Ron McClure & drummer Jimmy Cobb Recorded at Seattle's Prestigious Jazz Club, the Penthouse, on April 14 and 21,... |