Beyond being a vocalist of rare purity and daring, Theo Bleckmann is a sound painter who creates what JazzTimes has described aptly as “luminous webs” in music. The German-born New Yorker – ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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Point and Line - Debussy & Hosokawa
Born in Osaka, educated at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Momo Kodama is well-placed to approach music from both Eastern and Western vantage points, as she does in this album which ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Toshio Hosokawa (1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies, Piano Quintet
This double album, recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions. On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
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The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an „Invariant“ in the life of Berlin-based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
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Guitarist John Abercrombie who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 returns with a second album by his quartet featuring kindred-spirit piano foil Marc Copland, along with longtime rhythm ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
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Between March 2004 and May 2006 Sir András Schiff performed the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas at the Tonhalle, Zürich, recorded and ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
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Wolfgang Muthspiel whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists made his ECM leader debut in 2014 with the trio disc Driftwood, featuring him alongside two longtime colleagues, bassist Larry
Composer: Wolfgang Muthspiel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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The second album from the Hungarian-born Vienna-based guitarist finds her embracing a broad scope of music, broader even than on her outstanding debut En otra parte. This time the range extends from contemporary composition to jazz
Composer: Mathias Duplessy (geb. 1972), Egberto Gismonti (geb. 1947), Carlo Domeniconi (geb. 1947), Jorge Cardoso (geb. 1949), Al Di Meola (geb. 1954), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (geb. 1947), Anibal Augusto "Garoto" Sardinha (1915-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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Voice from the Past - Paradigm (Remaster)
Jazz, sometimes, is like acting: a group of performers starts with a script of prewritten material, which then must be spun into a convincing world of characters. This is not to say that the music isn’t genuine. Quite the contrary: through the art
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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One is often tempted to appreciate Terje Rypdal through the lens of some icy Nordic mystique that, while certainly supported by the sleeves that adorn his music, may ultimately be a myth. Either way, there is something to be
Composer: Terje Rypdal
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Among Kenny Wheeler’s cleverly punned titles, Deer Wan takes the cake. For his second ECM album as headliner, the prodigious trumpeter/fluegelhornist serves up a set of four originals—three long and one short—sure to enliven any
Composer: Kenny Wheeler
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Arcanum - Dmitri Shostakovich, Lera Auerbach
Kim Kashkashian introduces a duo with Russian composer-pianist Lera Auerbach. Their first collaborative recording features Auerbach’s viola and piano version of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes op. 34, and Auerbach’s own,
Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich (1975), Lera Auerbach (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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On his second leader album for ECM – following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
