Terje Rypdal
Descendre [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Among the pleasures of this group of Rypdal reissues is the presence throughout of drummer Jon Christensen. Terje and Jon, lifelong friends, played on dozens of albums and in many groups together. Christensen always alluded to the trio with Terje and... |
Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1971. |
Terje Rypdal
Waves [ ECM / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Terje Rypdal's Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist's association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje's most enduringly popular pieces, "Per... |
Terje Rypdal
Waves (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Terje Rypdal's Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist's association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje's most enduringly popular pieces, "Per... |
Terje Rypdal
What Comes After [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in January 1974, CD is re-released in October 2020 in the ECM Touchstone Series. What Comes After introduced a new alliance with American bassist Barre Phillips whose freely creative arco playing is often the second lead voice... |
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka, Marthe Lea
Bayou [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea.... |
Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka, Marthe Lea
Bayou (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea.... |
Thomas Strønen / Lucus
Time Is A Blind Guide [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative... |
Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violin)
Sei Solo [ ECM / 2 CD - released 21/Dec/2019 ] Thomas Zehetmair, one of the great violinists of our time, re-visits the solo works of Bach, the summit of the violin repertory |
BARTÓK / CASKEN / BEETHOVEN
Bartók / Casken / Beethoven Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This powerful New Series album represents "a résumé and a departure" for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for... |
J.S. BACH
Inventions and Sinfonias (2 and 3 Part Inventions) BWV772-801 Till Fellner (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] For more than four years, fans have been waiting for a new Bach recording from the extraordinary Austrian pianist Till Fellner. His interpretation of the first book of the Well-tempered piano for ECM was released in 2004 to great critical acclaim.... |
Tim Berne's Snake Oil
Incidentals [ ECM / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015's You've Been Watching Me) to feature the... |
Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet
December Avenue [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages spirited improvisation to... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Matka Joanna [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Soul of Things [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Jun/2002 ] There is a "timeless" feel to 'Soul of Things' that relates to Stanko's roots as a player; this forward-looking trumpet player is also looking back here. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Being There [ ECM Records / CD - released 24/Apr/2007 ] Offering gorgeous melodies & poetic lyricism, 'Being There' is another fine recording from Tord Gustavsen, Harald Johnsen and Jarle Vespestad. This third album from the TG Trio follows on from the superb 'Changing Places' and 'The Ground'. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Ground [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] The eagerly awaited follow-up to "Changing Places", the most successful ECM debut of the last decade! The improvising of Gustavsen's Trio is always restrained, subtle, tasteful. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |