GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Gidon Kremer (violin) & Jansug Kahkidze (voice/conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A very special album for Giya Kancheli's 75th birthday. When starting out on his career as a creator of symphonic and chamber music, the Georgian composer also wrote much incidental music for the theatre and the cinema. Though still little-known in... |
Dominic Miller
Absinthe [ ECM / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] With Absinthe, his second release for ECM, guitarist Dominic Miller has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. "The first thing that came to me before I wrote any tunes was the title," he says. "Living in the South of France... |
Dominic Miller
Vagabond [ ECM / CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] Dominic Miller has been called "a great, serene storyteller" by Peter Ruedi in the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, and Vagabond, the guitarist's third recording for ECM, might prove his most poetic tale to date, as he creates striking melancholy textures... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Don Cherry / Nana Vasconcelos / Collin Walcott
The Codona Trilogy [ ECM / 3 CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] Pure wizardry. The art of the improvisers beyond all borders. Preaching equality for all the idioms, anticipating the gathering wave of "world music", drawing on traditions from all the continents, Codona was like no other band. Its sound:... |
Eberhard Weber
The Colours of Chloe [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/1988 ] Recorded December 1973. |
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The interaction of Eberhard Weber's highly distinctive bass and Rainer Brüninghaus' lyrical piano is at the heart of a number of popular ECM recordings, starting with Weber's Colours of Chloë, and extending through the discographies of the Colours... |
Eberhard Weber
Once Upon A Time Live in Avignon [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Once Upon A Time Live in Avignon, recorded at Avignon's Théâtre des Halles in August 1994, presents Eberhard Weber's unique approach to the solo recital. The album sees the bassist balancing compositions from his albums Orchestra and Pendulum with a... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
STRAUSS / MESSIAEN / FRANCK / POULENC / SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHULHOFF
Edition Lockenhaus Vols 1 - 5 Gidon Kremer (violin) Kremerata Baltica, Simon Rattle [ ECM / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2011 ] In time for the 30th anniversary of the unique chamber music festival co-founded by violinist Gidon Kremer and Pastor Josef Herowitsch in the Austrian village of Lockenhaus, ECM issues a 5-CD box of recordings. |
Edward Vesala
Lumi [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recipient of a rare 5-Star review from the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Lumi is one of the key items in the discography of Finnish drummer-composer Edward Vesala. It was the first of his ECM recordings to feature his Sound and Fury ensemble, with creative... |
Eleni Karaindrou
Suspended Step Of The Stork [ ECM / CD - released 13/Apr/1992 ] |
Eleni Karaindrou, with Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek & Vangelis Christopoulos
Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] An exceptional live recording, 'Concert in Athens', the tenth ECM release by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou, incorporates moving performances by guests Kim Kashkashian and Jan Garbarek. |
Elina Duni Quartet
Matane Malit [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Matanë Malit" (Beyond the mountain), Elina Duni's ECM debut, is a homage to Albania. A singer looking at her roots from a present-day vantage point as a musician engaged in improvisational processes. Jazz experience informs her exploration of Balkan... |
Elina Duni with Rob Luft & Fred Thomas
Lost Ships [ ECM / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Elina Duni and Rob Luft's programme of songs of love and exile has been gathering momentum since 2017, when the Albanian-Swiss singer and the British guitarist began their collaboration. Along the way the duo has been augmented by distinguished... |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Records / CD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] Recorded June 2003 |
Enrico Rava
Easy Living [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York ("where my idols were, all the people... |
Enrico Rava
Edizione Speciale [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Enrico Rava, long a key figure in European jazz, has been a mentor for successive generations of Italian players. His celebratory Edizione Speciale, recorded live at the Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, brings together a team of young improvisers who... |
Enrico Rava / Joe Lovano
Roma [ ECM / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Recorded live at Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica last November, this album documents the meeting of the doyen of Italian jazz, Enrico Rava, with Joe Lovano, masterful US tenorist of Sicilian heritage. Rava and Lovano front a spirited quintet... |
Enrico Rava / Stefano Bollani
The Third Man [ ECM Records / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] This is a beautiful duo album by two of Italy's greatest jazz musicians. The recording features marvellous linear playing, beautiful melodies plucked from the air.. |