Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and – for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double album recorded at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest calibre. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger leads a trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron in this warm and involving recording, produced by Manfred Eicher in Oslo, and intensely melodic improvisation draws the listener gently ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On his second ECM album – following the solo release Arborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic... like a vision quest” – pianist Aaron Parks leads a trio featuring Ben Street and Billy Hart. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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 ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Miller’s ECM debut has an international feel: the Latin influence of his heritage strong in such pieces as “Baden”, an early 20th-century Parisian air on “Le Pont” and the evocation of Celtic tunes on “Valium”. Miller has long been known as ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Recorded in 1977 in Oslo, Places was an important album for Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and - with its stellar line-up including Americans Jack DeJohnette and Bill Connors - one that also drew significant attention in the US. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Conference of the Birds (Remastered)
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. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Down Beat: “Solstice inspires through its expressive openness... revealing depth of texture, nuance and meaning.” Perfect Sound Forever: “The LP is not only one of the moodiest ever published by ECM, but by anyone.” Solstice, recorded 1974, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Ingmar Bergman once said of Andrey Tarkovsky, He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams, and the French-German quartet named after the great Russian filmmaker has developed an associative dream-language of its own. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Berlin-based pianist Julia Hülsmann returns to the trio format for Sooner And Later, an album which distils the experience of journeys to distant destinations. In the last couple of years Hülsmann, bassist ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Keyboardist Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts is the Minneapolis-bred New Yorker’s third ECM release as a leader, a quartet album following the solo Avenging Angel and trio disc Chants. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
