Keith Jarrett
Survivors' Suite [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] The Survivors' Suite, recorded in 1976, is the crowning achievement of Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, and one of the all-time enduring masterpieces in the ECM catalogue. Melody Maker: "The... |
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden
Last Dance [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2014 ] From 1967 to 1976 Charlie was Keith Jarrett's bass player, first in the trio with Paul Motian, then in the "American Quartet" completed by Dewey Redman, a period reflected on ECM on the albums "The Survivors' Suite" and "Eyes of the Heart" - as well... |
Keith Jarrett (organ)
Hymns Spheres [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |
Keith Jarrett (piano)
Budapest Concert (Double Gatefold LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] 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... |
C.P.E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E.): Württemberg Sonatas Keith Jarrett (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] "Jarrett moves straight to the top of the list of interpreters on the instrument." Archive Issue of the Month Gramophone Sept 2023 |
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette
Still Live [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded July 1986 |
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... |
Kenny Wheeler
Deer Wan (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] The notoriously self-critical trumpeter Kenny Wheeler maintained that Deer Wan (recorded 1976) was his favourite among his own albums ("I like the overall form of this one best"). A tremendous band plays Wheeler's tunes here. Kenny and Jan Garbarek... |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
Louis Sclavis
Characters On A Wall (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Louis Sclaviss 13th ECM recording finds the French clarinetist drawing inspiration from two sources the street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and the interpretive originality of a splendid new quartet. |
Louis Sclavis / Benjamin Moussay
Unfolding [ ECM / CD - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Having previously joined forces on several Louis Sclavis recordings for ECM, including the clarinettist's last album Characters On A Wall, in recent years Sclavis and pianist Benjamin Moussay increasingly focused on their two-way communication,... |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
En Attendant (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 29/Nov/2021 ] "There's a galaxy of piano trios in today's jazz universe," the BBC Music Magazine has noted, "but few shine as bright as Marcin Wasilewski's". On its seventh ECM album the multifaceted Polish group illuminates a characteristically wide span of... |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio / Joe Lovano
Arctic Riff (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] The first-time teaming of Poland's dynamic Marcin Wasilewski Trio and big-toned US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays four new tunes... |
Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Amaryllis (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway" in 1997. Material heard on "Amaryllis" is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known - almost... |
Mark Turner
Return From The Stars [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
Mathias Eick
Skala (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 4/Apr/2011 ] Mathias Eick's intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond "jazz". Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he... |
Mathias Eick
When We leave (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's expressive playing, which according to the New York Times radiates a "pristine yet penetrating tone", is remarkably well complemented in the company of his gifted supporting players and fellow travelers. |
Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan, Hans Hulbækmo
Lullaby [ ECM / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass,... |
Mette Henriette
Drifting [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] After Mette Henriette's critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting - an album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression. With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello... |
Jack DeJohnette / Larry Goldings / John Scofield : Trio Beyond
Saudades [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "I've been inspired by this project since Jack first phoned me with the musical concept. It seemed fitting to spotlight Tony Williams as Jack himself follows directly in the lineage of drum innovators. We each owe a debt to Tony for his genius, broad... |