ARVO PART
Part: Adam's Lament Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] GRAMMY WINNER: Best Choral Album 2014 |
ELLIOTT CARTER
What Next? / ASKO Concerto Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter Eotvos (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Carter has always written for instruments operatically; now he lends opera the mercurial magic of his ensemble works, one of which, the "Asko Concerto", is appended here." Paul Driver, Sunday Times |
Barre Phillips
Aquarian Rain (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Jan/2009 ] "I play everything based on what my ear suggests I play, with no objective editing. And my ear is fed by a pool of accumulated musical experiences stored in my memory, mental memory and muscle memory. My active role is to do the best I can to play on... |
Barre Phillips
End To End [ ECM / CD - 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... |
Barre Phillips
Mountainscapes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Barre Phillips's Mountainscapes brings together strongly contrasting elements, the furious high-energy playing of the Surman/Phillips/Martin trio juxtaposed with spacious impressionistic pieces originally created for Carolyn Carlson's ballet dancers.... |
Ben Monder / Pete Rende / Andrew Cyrille / Paul Motian
Amorphae [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Guitarist Ben Monder first recorded for ECM as a member of the Paul Motian Band on "Garden of Eden" in 2004, and Amorphae was originally conceived as a series of duets for Ben and Paul. A first exploratory duo session was recorded in 2010. After... |
Benedicte Maurseth & Åsne Valland Nordli
Over Tones [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Over Tones is the ECM debut of two exceptional folk musicians from the West of Norway - Benedicte Maurseth who plays the Hardanger fiddle and sings and vocalist Åsne Valland Nordli. Both musicians are well established in their homeland. Maurseth... |
Benedikt Jahnel Trio
Equilibrium [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Equilibrium" is the ECM debut of a German/American/Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years. Fuelled by the tension created through the contrasting styles of pianist... |
Benedikt Jahnel Trio
The Invariant [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an invariant in the life of Berlin based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. Hence the album title: The Invariant is issued as the group goes on tour to celebrate its tenth... |
Bill Frisell
Rarum Volume 5 - Selected Recordings 1981-1996 [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
Bill Frisell
Works [ ECM / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] |
Bill Frisell
Works (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Feb/2018 ] |
Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
All Our Reasons [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] First ECM recording of a quartet formed in 2003. Originally billed as the Ethan Iverson-Mark Turner Quartet, it soon became the Billy Hart Quartet, and under this name has played shows to packed houses each year in New York City. The group's first... |
Billy Hart Quartet
One Is the Other [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] The second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet is a major musical statement, and one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season. The group's reach - already broad on 2011's widely-acclaimed All Our Reasons - is yet more expansive here. Strong... |
Birds and Bells
Bent Sorensen [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded October 1997, Released 1999 |
Bjorn Meyer
Provenance [ ECM / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] There is a distinguished tradition of solo bass albums on ECM, but Provenance is the first to be devoted to the electric bass guitar. Björn Meyer, Swedish-born and Swiss-based, has shaped a unique voice for his instrument inside the most diverse... |
Bjorn Meyer
Provenance (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] There is a distinguished tradition of solo bass albums on ECM, but Provenance is the first to be devoted to the electric bass guitar. Björn Meyer, Swedish-born and Swiss-based, has shaped a unique voice for his instrument inside the most diverse... |
Dobrinka Tabakova
String Paths [ ECM / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova's music - richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often emotionally radiant -... |
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian
Not Two, Not One [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Bassist Gary Peacock pulled together this reunion of a classic edition of the Paul Bley Trio. They've played together in duos over the years, but this - rather astonishingly - is the first time that Bley, Peacock and Motian have recorded as a trio in... |
Bobo Stenson Trio
Contra la indecision [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] The great Swedish trio of Bobo Stenson takes a stand against indecision in a decisively beautiful new album. As ever, the trio draws upon a wide range of source materials. A yearning title song by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, Bartók's... |