Manfred Schoof Quintet
Resonance [ ECM Records / 3 CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] One of the founding fathers of modern jazz in Germany, Schoof counts as the romantic amongst the free players, a strongly lyrical improviser. Romantic ballad playing, stark dramatic post-bop soloing, and the squeezing- out-sparks free playing. |
Manu Katche
Manu Katche [ ECM / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] Manu Katché's fourth album for ECM sees his unique drumming setting the scene and direction, with compositions and arrangements radiating outward from its rhythm-patterns. |
Manu Katche
Neighbourhood (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
Manu Katche
Third Round [ ECM / CD - released 22/Mar/2010 ] France-based, Ivory Coast-born musician and songwriter Manu Katche is joined on 'Third Round' by Pino Palladino, Jason Rebello and Tone Brunborg. |
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires
Second Sight [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] Recorded in March 1987, the 'Second Sight' album from Marc Johnson's Bass Desires has now been re-issued on CD at this special price, and packaged in a stylish digipak cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Marc Sinan, Oguz Büyükberber
White [ ECM / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Marc Sinan's third ECM release is an evocative duo album with Oğuz Büyükberber which subtly covers a lot of ground. The guitarist and the clarinettist have worked together in many contexts since first meeting in Istanbul a decade ago, and Büyükberber... |
Marc Sinan with Julia Hulsmann
Fasil [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] 'Fasil', based on an idea by guitarist Marc Sinan and author Marc Schiffer, tells of the life of Aisha, the great love and youngest wife of the prophet Mohammed, in the course of an inspired song cycle. |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Faithful [ ECM / CD - released 30/May/2011 ] Dazzling and beautifully-recorded third ECM album by Poland Jazz Pianist Marcin Wasilewski's trio - one of the most outstanding contemporary jazz groups today. |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
January [ ECM Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2008 ] 'January' is a strong musical statement from a still-young band with a long history already behind it, and an album with an exceptionally wide-ranging programme - all of it played with assurance, purpose and focus. |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Live [ ECM / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] For years, fans of Poland's Marcin Wasilewski Trio have been asking for a live album. Here it is. Recorded at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2016, it captures the trio in energetic, extroverted mode, fanning the flames of... |
Marco Ambrosini / Ensemble Supersonus
Resonances [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Led by nyckelharpa virtuoso Marco Ambrosini - first heard on ECM with Rolf Lislevand - Ensemble Supersonus applies its unique instrumental blend, capped by the otherworldly overtone singing of Anna-Maria Hefele, to very wide-ranging repertoire.... |
JOHN CAGE
The Seasons / Concerto for Prepared Piano / Seventy Four Margaret Leng Tan (pianos) / American Composers Orchestra [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] The first appearance of the work of John Cage on ECM is cause for celebration. This recording goes beyond the artistic-nihilistic gestures and the anarchic-Zen gags to get at the essence of Cage's musical thought. Cage's playfulness can't be - and... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: The Deer's Cry Mari Poll (violin), Johanna Vahermägi (viola) / Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "this grippingly authentic and superbly sung collection may now be the finest single-disc introduction to Pärt's music" BBC Music Award Finalist 2018 Choral |
Maria Farantouri
Beyond The Borders [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] The album title is the programme in this meeting of remarkable artists brought together to interpret traditional music of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Armenia, and to play original songs by Anatolian saz player Cihan Türkoğlu and lyricist Agathi... |
ELENI KARAINDROU
Elegy of the Uprooting Maria Farantouri (piano) Eleni Karaindrou (piano) / Camerata Orchestra / Manfred Eicher [ ECM New Series DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Extraordinary concert recording of the music of Eleni Karaindrou - filmed in her hometown of Athens in 2005. |
EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: Theory of Becoming (LP) Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in... |
Marilyn Crispell
Vignettes [ ECM Records / CD - released 21/Apr/2008 ] The music of 'Vignettes' is a new direction in the music of this great American pianist, embracing tonality and form. The album is a poetic, lyrical and intimate album |
Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenburg
One Dark Night I Left My Silent House [ ECM / CD - released 31/May/2010 ] |
Marilyn Mazur
Celestial Circle [ ECM / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] |
Mark Turner
Year of the Snake [ ECM / CD - released 11/May/2012 ] |