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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Lontano [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2006 ] The third ECM album by Tomasz Stanko's popular all-Polish group opens up with freer playing, while also emphasising the achingly soulful balladry that has increasingly become a hallmark of his music... |
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
September Night [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the... |
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Soul of Things [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Jun/2002 ] There is a "timeless" feel to 'Soul of Things' that relates to Stanko's roots as a player; this forward-looking trumpet player is also looking back here. |
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Suspended Night [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] Recorded July 2003. Haunting, soulful, and improvisational music from the gifted trumpeter. |
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Tomasz Stanko Quintet
Dark Eyes [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] Tomasz Stanko's smouldering improvisations and grainy-toned trumpet find a new context on 'Dark Eyes'. |
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Manu Katche
Neighbourhood [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2005 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
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Tord Gustavsen Ensemble
Restored Returned [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] After a trilogy of highly successful trio albums, Tord Gustavsen branches off in new directions. Inside the ensemble, duo and trio interaction unfolds, taking off from the clear melodic language of Gustavsen's songwriting. |
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Tord Gustavsen Quartet
Extended Circle [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] The sixth ECM album from Tord Gustavsen, recorded in Oslo in June 2013, quietly but most assuredly takes the Norwegian pianist's music to the next stage of its development. Gustavsen's quartet with Tore Brunborg, Mats Eilertsen and long-term... |
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Tord Gustavsen Quartet
The Well [ ECM / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] Gently but effectively propelled by his group, Gustavsen's gospel-tinged, unhurried piano playing displays a characteristic warmth and tenderness. |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Being There [ ECM Records / CD - released 24/Apr/2007 ] Offering gorgeous melodies & poetic lyricism, 'Being There' is another fine recording from Tord Gustavsen, Harald Johnsen and Jarle Vespestad. This third album from the TG Trio follows on from the superb 'Changing Places' and 'The Ground'. |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Changing Places [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2003 ] The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making - lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Ground [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] The eagerly awaited follow-up to "Changing Places", the most successful ECM debut of the last decade! The improvising of Gustavsen's Trio is always restrained, subtle, tasteful. |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
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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
The Other Side [ ECM / CD - 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 [ ECM / CD - 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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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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Tord Gustavsen Trio
What Was Said [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] What Was Said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen's musical palette. His new project introduces the entrancing German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle... |
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Trio Mediaeval
Stella Maris [ ECM Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2005 ] "Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album" BBC Music Choral & Song Choice - November 2005 |
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ANONYMOUS
A Worcester Ladymass Trio Mediaeval [ ECM / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] "The whole programme flows together beautifully and the Trio's diction and tone perfectly combines celestial purity and perfection with human warmth and vulnerability." BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 ***** |