Oded Tzur
Here Be Dragons (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 14/Feb/2020 ] Here Be Dragons is the ECM debut of New York based, Tel Aviv born saxophonist Oded Tzur, a strikingly original player and musical storyeller. Tzur's graceful and fluid tenor sax sound has been influenced by studies with bansuri master Hariprasad... |
Oregon
Oregon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in February 1983, this is the first ECM album for the Oregon quartet , pioneer band in the trans-cultural zone, in the original line-up with Ralph Towner, Collin Walcott, Paul McCandless and Glen Moore. |
Pat Metheny
80/81 (180g Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Pat Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package, a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely... |
Pat Metheny
Bright Size Life [ ECM Records / CD - released 29/Feb/2000 ] Recorded in December 1975, 'Bright Size Life' is the wonderful debut recording from celebrated guitarist, Pat Metheny - accompanied by brilliant bassist, Jaco Pastorius and skilful drummer, Bob Moses. |
Pat Metheny
Offramp (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 24/May/2010 ] If 1980's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls was defined by Pat Metheny's charisma, its less accessible but certainly rewarding successor, Offramp, finds him leaning more toward the abstract. But as cerebral as Metheny gets on such atmospheric... |
Pat Metheny
Watercolors [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here" the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared. "Metheny's compositions are perfect vehicles for his guitar, which blends smoothly with the breathtaking ensemble... |
Pat Metheny Group
American Garage [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded June 1979, 'American Garage' is a fine album from Metheny and co which features the aptly titled 13-minute track "The Epic". |
Pat Metheny Group
American Garage (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] A young group openly acknowledging the influence of popular music. This cheerful, breezy jazz-rock from the Pat Metheny Group was recorded in 1979.. Includes the PMG signature tune "(Cross The) Heartland". |
Pat Metheny Group
Offramp [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded in October 1981, 'Offramp' is one of Pat Metheny's best and most popular recordings. |
Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] The first recording by the Pat Metheny Group features the innovative guitarist along with keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Dan Gottlieb. The music is quite distinctive, floating rather than swinging, electric but not rockish, and... |
Pat Metheny Group
Travels (Reissue) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Recorded in July, October and November 1982, 'Travels' is a superb double disc, live recording from the celebrated Pat Metheny Group. |
Paul Bley
Ballads [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] First released in the spring of 1971, these historic recordings from March and July 1967 capture the sound of a genre being born in the free ballads of Annette Peacock, played with extraordinary sensitivity by Paul Bley's trio. Annette Peacock:... |
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian
When Will The Blues Leave [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In 1999, a year after recording the splendid reunion album Not Two, Not One, Paul Bley's highly innovative trio with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian took to the road with concerts on both sides of the Atlantic. When Will The Blues Leave documents a... |
Paul Giger
ars moriendi [ ECM / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] On ars moriendi Paul Giger looks at life's flowing patterns, at death and renewal, as he brings together compositions by Bach and new music drawing inspiration from the work of painter Giovanni Segantini and Swiss folk traditions. The album was... |
Paul Motian
Conception Vessel [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Recorded in November 1972, Paul Motian's 'Conception Vessel' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Paul Motian
Tribute [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The combination of Paul Motian and Charlie Haden was always a guarantee for magical improvisational interaction, and there is much of it in this attractive line-up with the twinned guitars of Sam Brown and Paul Metzke and Carlos Ward's alto sax.... |
GAVIN BRYARS
Bryars: The Fifth Century PRISM Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Is this a must-have? If you have any interest in contemporary music, it's certainly worth investigating. I, for one, am going to spend more time with the music of Gavin Bryars." Green Man Review |
Quercus
Nightfall [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Quercus's self-titled ECM debut won the album-of-the-year award of the German Record Critics in 2013, was widely praised by the international press, and especially celebrated in Britain where June Tabor has long reigned as "the dark voiced queen of... |
Ralph Alessi Quartet
It's Always Now (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Ralph Alessi's fourth appearance as a leader for the label follows a singular album run that's been met with nothing but praise from The New York Times to The Guardian. The latter lauded Ralph's previous recording Imaginary Friends (2019) for its... |
Ralph Towner
At First Light [ ECM / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] An ECM artist for his entire musical career, US guitarist Ralph Towner has built up a unique body of work in his recordings for the label. Central to his oeuvre are his solo albums, the first of which, Diary, was issued 50 years ago. At First Light... |