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Marcin Wasilewski Trio
En Attendant (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 29/Nov/2021 ] "There's a galaxy of piano trios in today's jazz universe," the BBC Music Magazine has noted, "but few shine as bright as Marcin Wasilewski's". On its seventh ECM album the multifaceted Polish group illuminates a characteristically wide span of... |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Live (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - 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... |
Marcin Wasilewski Trio / Joe Lovano
Arctic Riff (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] The first-time teaming of Poland's dynamic Marcin Wasilewski Trio and big-toned US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays four new tunes... |
Mark Turner
Return From The Stars [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
Mathias Eick
Skala (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 4/Apr/2011 ] Mathias Eick's intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond "jazz". Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he... |
Mathias Eick
When We leave (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's expressive playing, which according to the New York Times radiates a "pristine yet penetrating tone", is remarkably well complemented in the company of his gifted supporting players and fellow travelers. |
Meredith Monk
The Recordings (13 CD Box Set) [ ECM New Series / CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date... |
Mette Henriette
Drifting [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] After Mette Henriette's critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting - an album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression. With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello... |
Miroslav Vitous
Journey's End [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] This quartet was the primary context for the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous's creativity in the late 70s and early 80s. "Like Mingus, Vitous is a real leader from the bass, and the music is all the stronger for it" - Gramophone. With three excellent... |
Miroslav Vitous Group
Miroslav Vitous Group (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2014 ] A reissue of the Miroslav Vitous Group album by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label. |
Miroslav Vitous/Jan Garbarek
Atmos [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Jan Garbarek is my favorite sax player," Miroslav Vitous has said. "We have an incredible musical rapport and you can hear it. He understands my Slavic melodies and what I use for atmosphere because he's European and his father was Polish, which is... |
Near East Quartet
Near East Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] The Near East Quartet has been a force in Korean music since 2010, juxtaposing elements of contemporary jazz and traditional Korean music with pure sound exploration to create new forms. Saxophonist/clarinettist Sungjae Son and guitarist Suwuk Chung... |
Nik Bärtsch (piano)
Entendre (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 23/Jul/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 Bärtsch's Ronin
Awase (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - 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 (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... |
GYORGY KURTAG / ANTONIN DVORAK
Kurtag: Six Moments Musicaux / Dvorak: String Quartet op.97 Parker Quartet, Kim Kashkashian [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] On their ECM New series debut, the Boston-based Parker Quartet, hailed by the Washington Post for "exceptional virtuosity and imaginative interpretation," play music of György Kurtág and are joined by violist Kim Kashkashian, one of the quarter's... |
Pat Metheny Group
Travels (Double Gatefold LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Recorded live in concert, originally released in 1983. Pat Metheny - Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer Lyle Mays - Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Autoharp, Synclavier Steve Rodby - Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Bass Synthesizer Dan Gottlieb - Drums Nana... |
Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset
Lost River [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also... |
Ralph Alessi Quartet
It's Always Now [ ECM / CD - released 27/Feb/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... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas Robert Levin (fortepiano, Anton Walter, 1782) [ ECM New Series / 7 CD Box Set - released 2/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - INSTRUMENTAL |
