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Charles Lloyd
Arrows Into Infinity (DVD) [ ECM / DVD - released 17/Oct/2014 ] Arrows Into Infinity chronicles the arc of an improviser's still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music. Charles Lloyd's story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz... |
Charles Lloyd
Sangam [ ECM Records / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] This is the first release from Charles Lloyd’s exciting new trio with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland, the gifted drummer from his ‘regular’ quartet. |
Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri
The Bell [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. "The best thing I caught all weekend," said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, "was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist... |
Chick Corea
Children's Songs [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded July 1983. These solo piano pieces, simple-yet-profound (comparisons have been made with Bartók's Makrokosmos), have lost none of their charm. |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
Chick Corea
Return to Forever (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] The legendary first lineup of Chick Corea's fusion band Return to Forever debuted on this classic album (titled after the group but credited to Corea), featuring Joe Farrell on soprano sax and flute, the Brazilian team of vocalist Flora Purim and... |
Chick Corea
Septet [ ECM / CD - released 1/Nov/1985 ] |
Chick Corea / Stefano Bollani
Orvieto [ ECM / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] Corea and Bollani in their first recorded collaboration, a document of a most spirited gig in Orvieto's Teatro Mancinelli, December 2010. |
Chris Potter
The Dreamer Is the Dream (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York... |
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Elegie an John Donne Christian Reiner [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the winter of 2012/13, Viennese actor and voice artist Christian Reiner attracted much acclaim for his interpretation of Friedrich Hölderlin's "Turmgedichten". "Reiner is able to coax the music out of the words", German newspaper Frankfurter... |
Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert [ ECM / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis's band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in... |
Craig Taborn
Shadow Plays [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was widely praised for the fresh ideas it brought to the solo piano idiom. "It reflects Mr Taborn's galactically-broad interests," said the New York Times, "along with his multifaceted technique," while the... |
THOMAS ADES / ER NORGARD / HANS ABRAHAMSEN
Ades: Arcadiana / Norgard: Quartetto Breve / Abrahamsen: 10 Preludes The Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "The Danish are remarkable, as ever - capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
TRADITIONAL
Transeamus (English Carols and Motets) David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Having recorded more than twenty albums for ECM since the mid-80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement (at the end of 2014) with a final release: 'Transeamus', a collection of polyphony - in two, three and four parts - from... |
David Virelles & The Nosotros Ensemble
Gnosis (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 15/Sep/2017 ] In this vivid and exciting project, the Santiago-raised and New York-based pianist-composer David Virelles looks towards one melting pot from the vantage point of another. A far-reaching work with deep cultural roots, Gnosis speaks of... |
KEITH JARRETT
Ritual (LP) Dennis Russell Davies (piano) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Gidon Kremer (violin) & Jansug Kahkidze (voice/conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A very special album for Giya Kancheli's 75th birthday. When starting out on his career as a creator of symphonic and chamber music, the Georgian composer also wrote much incidental music for the theatre and the cinema. Though still little-known in... |
