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Fred Hersch Trio
The Surrounding Green [ ECM / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
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Gary Burton (vibraphone), with Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Eberhard Weber & Chick Corea
Works [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] Original recording released in 1984 |
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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. |
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Gary Peacock, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette
Tales Of Another [ ECM / CD - released 1/Sep/1977 ] |
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George Adams
Sound Suggestions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] George Adams made only one ECM recording, but it's a beauty, placing his powerful tenor sax at the front of a talent-packed group, with Adams, Kenny Wheeler and Heinz Sauer all contributing compositions to the programme. "The spirit of Mingus hovers... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Chiaroscuro Gidon Kremer (violin) with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Kremerata Baltica [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] "..wide-ranging spectrum of tone, colour and dynamics, and that is what Gidon Kremer and his wonderful orchestra produce in Chiaroscuro, backed up by a superbly rich and detailed recording." Five Stars BBC Music |
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GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Gurdjieff: Zartir The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The third album from Levon Eskenian's remarkable ensemble is its most adventurous to date. As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and... |
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GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Gurdjieff: Zartir (LP) The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian [ ECM / LP - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The third album from Levon Eskenian's remarkable ensemble is its most adventurous to date. As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and... |
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HEINER GOEBBELS
Goebbels: A House Of Call - My Imaginary Notebook Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Vimbayi Kaziboni [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] A House of Call is a cycle of invocations, prayers, poems and songs for large orchestra. It incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters. The... |
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Heinz Holliger, Anton Kernjak
Éventail [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] In his Éventail de musique française, Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger traverses a broad selection of French works for oboe and piano in a multichromatic programme of early 20th century music. As Holliger states in his liner note, "the... |
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HEINZ HOLLIGER
Heinz Holliger: Lunea Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse / Philharmonie Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "Gerhaher is astonishing in the virtuoso principal role...traversing the gamut of language and expression from song to speech...an excellent Basler Madrigalisten and 34-piece Philharmonia Zürich conducted live by Holliger." BBC Opera Choice July 22 |
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THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Audivi Vocem Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] Edtor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2008 -- "If only all history lessons were delivered as beautifully as this one." |
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PEROTIN
Viderunt omnes / Veni creator spiritus / etc The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Recorded September 1988 |
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Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Tim Berne (alto saxophone) with Oscar Noriega (clarinet/bass clarinet) & Matt Mitchell (piano, Tack and Wurlitzer pianos)
Shadow Man [ ECM / CD - released 22/Oct/2013 ] Acclaim for the first, eponymous album from saxophonist-composer Tim Berne's acoustic quartet Snakeoil came from far and wide: All About Jazz described the music as "unpredictable and fresh," while The Guardian called it "an object lesson in... |
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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. |
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Jean-Louis Matinier, Kevin Seddiki
Rivages [ ECM / CD - released 29/May/2020 ] Accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has long been a creative presence on ECM recordings, heard with the groups of Anouar Brahem (on Le pas du chat noir and Le voyage de Sahar), Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit) and François Couturier (Nostalghia, Tarkovsky... |
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Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi
Garden Of Expression [ ECM / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] The debut album of Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry was one of 2019's most talked-about releases. The trio's musical concept - the Boston Globe spoke of "utterances of hushed assurance, lyricism and suspense" - is taken to the next level on its second... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry [ ECM / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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John Abercrombie
Timeless [ ECM Records / CD - released 7/Oct/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,... |