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Keith Jarrett
The Köln Concert - Special Edition (Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - due 12/Dec/2026 ] The Köln Concert - the groundbreaking recording of Keith Jarrett's improvised solo concert at the Cologne opera house - has attained legendary status since its release in 1975. An iconic album and an essential document of the era, few live recordings... |
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Julia Hülsmann Octet
While I Was Away [ ECM / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] After the highly acclaimed run of quartet recordings from Not Far From Here (2019), The Next Door (2022) to Under The Surface (2025), German pianist Julia Hülsmann has decided to alter the narrative and up the ante with a newly formed octet of... |
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Björn Meyer Convergence
Convergence [ ECM / CD - released 23/Jan/2026 ] With Convergence, his second solo album, Swedish-born bassist Björn Meyer further develops music on the blueprint established with his recording Provenance (2017), making use of the technical potential of the bass guitar to establish striking... |
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Craig Taborn / Tomeka Reid / Ches Smith
Dream Archives [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] The trio-debut of pianist, composer and 2025 MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith has been eagerly awaited. In its review of the group's live show from Fall 2025 the German daily Hamburger Abendblatt raved how they "belong to... |
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Gary Peacock, Ralph Towner
Oracle (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jan/2026 ] The charming, thoughtfoul Oracle conveys the familiarity and empathy of partners who have worked together for years - light touch, intricacy and sensitivity pervade the session. Oracle wins you over with its warmth and melodicism. - Downbeat, 1994 ... |
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John Scofield, Dave Holland
Memories of Home [ ECM / CD - released 21/Nov/2025 ] Guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland, two of jazz's contemporary masters, have played together over the years in contexts including projects with Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson and a spirited co-led band with Joe Lovano and Al... |
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Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
Madar (LP) [ ECM (Luminessence Series) / 2 LP - released 7/Nov/2025 ] Madar powerfully captures the only recorded coming together of these respective masters of their distinctive instruments: Shaukat Hussain on tabla, Anouar Brahem on oud and saxophonist Jan Garbarek. "Manfred [Eicher] proposed that we might invite... |
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Steve Tibbetts
Close [ ECM / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] The striking cover image of an abandoned swing illuminated against a field of glittering stars makes a compelling visual metaphor for the music on Close. "Music is a twilight language," Steve Tibbetts confirms. "The job is to translate some shadow... |
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Meredith Monk
Cellular Songs [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Cooperation, interdependence and kindness" are the qualities that Meredith Monk emphasizes in Cellular Songs, "as an antidote to the values that are being propagated right now." Of the work's premiere performance the New York Times wrote, "Ms. Monk... |
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Sokratis Sinopoulos / Yann Keerim
Topos [ ECM / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] The Greek duo of lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim's first studio statement is a deep well of inspired musical dialogues that cross the idiomatic space between European folk tradition and chamber-jazz seamlessly. Bartók's six... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Streichquartette op. 51 Zehetmair Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] A central fixture in the world of string quartets for the past thirty years, the Zehetmair Quartett's ECM recordings of Schumann, Hindemith, Bartók and Hartmann have received luminous praise-Gramophone lauded their Schumann as "Record of the Year",... |
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John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron
Tramonto [ ECM / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Recorded live in Birmingham during a Contemporary Music Network tour in 2002, Tramonto finds UK pianist John Taylor (1942-2015) in celebratory, outgoing mood, fronting one of his most dynamic and quick-witted groups, with US musicians Marc Johnson... |
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Rolf Lislevand (lute)
Libro Primo [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] On his newest recording for ECM's New Series, lute virtuoso Rolf Lislevand turns to the revolutionary Baroque literature for archlute and chitarrone, interpreting 17th century lute composers' works largely found in their first printed books - their... |
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ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |
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ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice (LP) Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |
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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
At The Deer Head Inn - The Complete Recordings (LP) [ ECM / 4 LP - released 22/Aug/2025 ] "The music has the dash and the unabashed lyricism of Keith Jarrett's best work" wrote Stereophile in a rave-review of the first selection from the intimate Deer Head Inn live recording, capturing Jarrett's spontaneous and in retrospect historic... |
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Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José Saluzzi
El Viejo Caminante [ ECM / CD - released 11/Jul/2025 ] Two guitars gently envelop the uniquely evocative bandoneon of Dino Saluzzi on El Viejo Caminante, ('The Old Wanderer'). Here, the Argentinean father and son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi are joined by Norway's Jacob Young, in an album of... |
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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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Fred Hersch Trio
The Surrounding Green (LP) [ ECM / LP - 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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Signum Quartett
A Dark Flaring (String Quartets from South Africa) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] A Dark Flaring marks the Signum Quartett's impressive return to ECM's New Series after debuting for the label with striking performances on Erkki-Sven Tüür's acclaimed chamber music recording Lost Prayers (2020). Here, the quartet has put together a... |