Barre Phillips
End To End (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Barre Phillips was the first musician to record an album of solo double bass, back in 1968, and he has always been an absolute master of the solo idiom. In March 2017, Barre recorded what he says will be his last solo album, the final chapter of his... |
Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Jérôme Regard, Manu Katché
Last Decade [ ECM / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes his ECM debut with a star-studded quartet of Manu Katché on drums, trumpeter Mathias Eick and Jérôme Regard on bass. Mathias and Manu share a longstanding association with the label and their... |
Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Jérôme Regard, Manu Katché
Last Decade (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes his ECM debut with a star-studded quartet of Manu Katché on drums, trumpeter Mathias Eick and Jérôme Regard on bass. Mathias and Manu share a longstanding association with the label and their... |
Benjamin Moussay
Promontoire [ ECM / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] After three acclaimed ECM recordings with Louis Sclavis (Sources, Salt and Silk Melodies, and Characters on a Wall), each of them attesting his improvisational resourcefulness, French pianist Benjamin Moussay was invited to record a solo album.... |
Bennie Maupin & Herbie Hancock
The Jewel In The Lotus [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Bennie Maupin has been a musicians' musician for decades, and a highly inventive contributor, on bass clarinet and saxes, to some important records - including Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew", Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" and Marion Brown's "Afternoon... |
Bill Connors
Of Mist and Melting [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A guitarist's guitarist, Bill Connors has always had the admiration of his peers. Steve Tibbetts recently praised Connors's "left-hand vibrato, his sense of space, his liquid phrasing, the way he lingers on a note" - all qualities in evidence on... |
Bill Frisell
In Line [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/1983 ] |
The Bill Frisell Band
Lookout For Hope [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Memo from the heyday of the Downtown scene, an album from Frisell's first touring band, with cellist Hank Roberts, drummer Joey Baron and bassist Kermit Driscoll. All material by Frisell, except Thelonious Monk's "Hackensack". |
Bobo Stenson Trio
Sphere [ ECM / CD - released 24/Feb/2023 ] The Bobo Stenson Trio's ability of covering far-reaching idioms and wide-ranging repertoire within the scope of their personal diction has become both hallmark and custom, inspiring the New York Times to say the pianist "makes sublime piano-trio... |
Bobo Stenson Trio
Sphere (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] |
Bobo Stenson Trio
War Orphans [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Characteristically broad in its stylistic range, this 1997 recording begins with a tune by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and ends with Duke Ellington's "Melancholia". In between are original contributions by Anders Jormin and Bobo Stenson... |
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow
Andando el Tiempo (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Andando el Tiempo features new music of wide emotional compass by NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. Saints Alive! sets up animated conversations between the three musical... |
Charles Lloyd
Arrows Into Infinity (DVD) [ ECM / DVD - released 17/Oct/2014 ] Arrows Into Infinity chronicles the arc of an improviser's still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music. Charles Lloyd's story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz... |
Charles Lloyd
Sangam [ ECM Records / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] This is the first release from Charles Lloyd’s exciting new trio with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland, the gifted drummer from his ‘regular’ quartet. |
Charles Lloyd
Voice in the Night (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Recorded in May 1998, 'Voice in the Night' is rightly regarded as a jazz classic. |
Charlie Haden
Ballad Of The Fallen [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri
The Bell [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. "The best thing I caught all weekend," said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, "was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist... |
Chick Corea
Children's Songs [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded July 1983. These solo piano pieces, simple-yet-profound (comparisons have been made with Bartók's Makrokosmos), have lost none of their charm. |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Chick Corea's first unaccompanied album initiated the solo piano idiom at ECM, and proved to be extremely influential. Alongside music created in the moment, some powerful melodies are explored here, not least that of "Sometime Ago", soon to be a... |