Nik Bärtsch
Entendre [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist best known as leader of the bands Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtch's musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as... |
Nik Bartsch's Mobile
Continuum [ ECM / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] After three studio albums: 'Stoa' (2006), 'Holon' (2008) and 'Lyria' (2010), plus the double-CD 'Live' (2012) with his electric band Ronin, Swiss keyboardist/composer Nik Bärtsch now presents a new recording with his original group Mobile. Mobile,... |
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile
Continuum (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Mar/2016 ] |
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase [ ECM / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Awase", a term from martial arts, means "moving together" in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Six years have passed since the last... |
Nils Økland, Sigbjørn Apeland
Glimmer [ ECM / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its... |
Nils Økland, Sigbjørn Apeland
Glimmer (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its... |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Surrounded by Sea [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Laidback and lyrical saxophonist Andy Sheppard's newest ECM project adds Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset to the Trio Libero lineup he shares with French bassist Michel Benita and Polar Bear drummer Seb Rochford, and uses the new member's ethereal... |
Nitai Hershkovits
Call On The Old Wise [ ECM / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] With Call on the old Wise Nitai Hershkovits delivers an entrancing solo album. In this largely improvised solo rendering, the pianist draws from broad influences, ranging from his extensive work in jazz contexts and cutting-edge contemporary... |
Nitai Hershkovits
Call On The Old Wise (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] With Call on the old Wise Nitai Hershkovits delivers an entrancing solo album. In this largely improvised solo rendering, the pianist draws from broad influences, ranging from his extensive work in jazz contexts and cutting-edge contemporary... |
The Norma Winstone Trio
Distances [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Norma Winstone, England's finest jazz vocalist, returns with a trio featuring German reedman Klaus Gesing and Italian pianist Glauco Venier. |
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... |
Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell)
Playing [ ECM / CD - released 1/Sep/1981 ] A live album from Jazz supergroup Old and New Dreams, recorded live at The Cornmarket Theater in Bregenz, Austria in June 1980. |
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
Bright Size Life (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Pat Metheny had debuted at ECM as a member of Gary Burton's band on the album Ring in 1974, but Bright Size Life, his first studio recording as a leader, was the album that decisively put him on the map as a bright new force, with something fresh to... |
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
First Circle [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] Metheny's final ECM disc reflected a growing interest in South American rhythms and introduced Argentinean percussionist/singer Pedro Aznar to the group. Includes the popular "Yolanda, You Learn". Recorded in February 1984. |
Pat Metheny Group
New Chautauqua [ ECM Records / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] Recorded August 1978. Metheny alone and, mostly, acoustic, playing folk-flavoured compositions. Pat viewed this as "an autobiographical album. It's got a lot to do with the American Midwest. It's very open and spacious." |