John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/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... |
John Scofield, with Steve Swallow & Bill Stewart
Swallow Tales (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 15/May/2020 ] Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in a day in New York in March 2019 - "old school" style as Scofield says, while acknowledging that more than forty years... |
John Surman
Word Unspoken [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2024 ] Hypnotic and many of its antonyms-stimulating, arousing, reviving-are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music... |
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
Jon Balke
Siwan [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2009 ] Magical music, trailing deep roots. The listener is at first struck by the power of Amina Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble - with soloists drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions,... |
Jon Balke
Skrifum [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] From the very first note, Norway's Jon Balke proposes a new sonic dimension with Skrifum, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Warp (2016) and Discourses (2020), solo piano albums which also processed the acoustic environment in which the music... |
Jon Balke, Siwan
Hafla [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Siwan, the transcultural, trans-idiomatic musical collective led by Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke, continues along its special path, with new music inspired by the creative spirit of Al-Andalus. |
Julia Hülsmann Quartet
The Next Door [ ECM / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] On The Next Door Julia Hülsmann returns with the quartet from 2019's Not Far From Here, and presents her unique pianistic voice in a varied programme of almost exclusively original music, composed by herself and her colleagues - tenor saxophonist Uli... |
June Tabor, Iain Ballamy & Huw
Quercus [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] 'Quercus' means 'oak' in Latin and the roots of this particular tree dig deep into British folk music, while leaves and branches reach upward to embrace jazz-inspired lyrical improvising. The trio features the venerable English singer June Tabor... |
Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Jan/2009 ] |
Keith Jarrett
Bordeaux Concert (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett's last European tour. Each of Jarrett's 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore. In the course of this improvised... |
Keith Jarrett (piano)
Budapest Concert [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour - following on from the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016 - this double album documents the pianist's solo performance at the Béla Bartók National Concert... |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/Nov/1999 ] "Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide constituency of listeners. His albums would turn up in the collections of people who would otherwise... |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] 24 January 1975 proved a memorable, magical night for the 1300 people who witnessed American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett perform a solo recital in the majestic surroundings of Cologne's opera house. The concert was recorded for posterity by ECM... |
Keith Jarrett
La Scala [ ECM Records / CD - released 4/Jan/1998 ] Recorded February 1995, "La Scala" comprises two moving sets of solo improvisation, and Jarrett's most loved encore - the classic tune "Over the Rainbow." |
Keith Jarrett
Munich 2016 [ ECM / 2 CD - 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... |
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... |
Keith Jarrett
No End [ ECM / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2013 ] Recorded at his home studio in 1986, No End illuminates hitherto undocumented aspects of Keith Jarrett's music. He is heard here on electric guitars, electric bass, drums and percussion, overdubbing tribal dances of his own devising: "Somehow... |
Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock
The Old Country [ ECM / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "This particular evening was a warm, humid, rainy autumn night in the Pocono Mountains. The room was full of people and outside on the porch more people listened through the screen doors." Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett's recordings from the Deer... |
Keith Jarrett
Standards Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The protagonists had already recorded together on Gary Peacock's Tales of Another in 1977, but Jarrett's Standards project, with its dedication to the Great American Songbook, proposed a new sphere of operation, one that would make this trio among... |