Oded Tzur
Isabela [ ECM / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and... |
Oded Tzur
Isabela (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and... |
Nils Økland (violin, hardanger fiddle) & Sigbjørn Apeland (piano, harmonium)
Lysøen - Hommage à Ole Bull [ ECM / CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] Nils Økland and Sigbjørn Apeland are the first musicians to record an album at Lysøen, the Norwegian island home of iconic violinist-composer Ole Bull (1810-1880). For years they have explored Ole Bull's musical landscapes with open minds, and found... |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
In Air Clear and Unseen for piano and string quartet Oleg Malov (piano) / Keller Quartet with Tatiana Melentieva (soprano) [ ECM / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] ECM's documentation of outstanding music from the former Soviet Union continues with Svete Tikhiy, the first of several albums from the Uzbekistan-born and St Petersburg-based composer, Alexander Knaifel. |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
Knaifel: Lukomoriye Oleg Malov (Piano), Tatiana Melentieva (Soprano), Piotr Migunov (Bass), Lege Artis Choir, Boris Abalian (Conductor) [ ECM / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] The fourth New Series album from the St Petersburg-based composer Alexander Knaifel may be his most wide-ranging to date, voyaging from the sacred to the secular and back again via several inspired detours. It includes two Prayers to the Holy Spirit,... |
Carla Bley
Orchestra Jazz Siciliana (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Oregon
Ecotopia [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded March 1987. Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu replaces the late Collin Walcott and a new chapter in Oregon's music begins. |
ELENI KARAINDOU
Ulysses' Gaze Original Soundtrack with Kim Kashkashian (viola), Andreas Tsekouras (accordian) and others [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Featuring viola soloist Kim Kashkashian. Sparse, haunting pieces, expansive and perfectly filmic in their execution |
Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro, Marilyn Mazur
Strands: Live At The Danish Radio Concert Hall [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "When we walked out on stage it felt like a homecoming," says Jakob Bro of this texturally spacious and emotionally charged live recording from Copenhagen, on which three of the defining protagonists of improvisation in Denmark, leading musicians... |
Parnasso Quartet
Jens-Peter Ostendorf - String Quartet [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded December 1989 |
Pat Metheny
80/81 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded May 1980. |
Pat Metheny
80/81 (180g Double LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Pat Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package, a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely... |
Pat Metheny
Rarum Volume 9 :-Selected Recordings 1975-1984 [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recording and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from the formative years of one of jazz's most influential guitarists. |
Pat Metheny
Rejoicing [ ECM Records / CD - released 29/Feb/2000 ] Recorded November 1983. |
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." |
Pat Metheny Group
Offramp [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded in October 1981, 'Offramp' is one of Pat Metheny's best and most popular recordings. |
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Reissue) [ ECM Records / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Recorded September 1980 |
Pat Metheny / Jan Garbarek / Gary Burton / Scott Colley
Hommage a Eberhard Weber [ ECM / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] In January 2015 musicians and listeners converged upon Stuttgart's Theaterhaus for two consecutive nights to celebrate the 75th birthday of Eberhard Weber. The concerts centered around a specially commissioned 35-minute suite by Pat Metheny, with... |
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Galina Ustvolskaya Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhäuser, Reto Bieri [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The unique expressiveness of the work of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) speaks to the listener with directness and nuanced layers of sound, the powerful, rhythmic stringency of the music testifying to the relentlessness of her vision. Fiercely... |