David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The interaction of Eberhard Weber's highly distinctive bass and Rainer Brüninghaus' lyrical piano is at the heart of a number of popular ECM recordings, starting with Weber's Colours of Chloë, and extending through the discographies of the Colours... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York ("where my idols were, all the people... |
The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Gary Peacock
Guamba [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Gary Peacock's recordings of the 1980s are production projects on which great players convened to play the bassist's tunes. And the bass is fully a lead voice here, with title piece Guamba a Peacock solo to open the proceedings. As Paul Bley once... |
John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jan/1975 ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
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... |
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 / 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... |
Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen
Aftenland [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Recorded in a Stockholm church in 1979, Aftenland documents a fascinating encounter between Jan Garbarek, improviser par excellence, and classical organist Kjell Johnsen. "Preparing and realizing Aftenland was one of the most interesting experiences... |
John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine
John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recorded live at Boston's Nightstage club in 1988 this album found John Abercrombie both pushing sonic boundaries on guitar synthesizer and, on regular jazz guitar, deepening his relationship to the world of standards. In this trio he had exceptional... |
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner
Sargasso Sea [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1976, 'Sargasso Sea' is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Marc Johnson, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Peter Erskine
Bass Desires [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1985, Marc Johnson's 'Bass Desires' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digipak cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Keith Jarrett
At The Blue Note (Third CD) [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Previously released only in the US, this single disc drawn from the At The Blue Note box embodies all the characteristics that made Jarrett's trio for many listeners the preeminent group in all of jazz. The qualities of respect for the material and... |
Keith Jarrett
Facing You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in November 1971, Keith Jarrett's 'Facing You' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette
Standards Live [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1985, this superb album by Keith Jarrett, with Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Kenny Wheeler
Double, Double You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every... |