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20/02/2024

Check out Wolfgang Muthspiel's interview with Classical Guitar Magazine. His new album is available on CD and VINYL: https://ECM.lnk.to/DanceOfTheEldersFP

18/02/2024

Luminessence comes from a richly creative period in the lives of Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, and was one of two milestone recordings realized in a single week in April of 1974. After putting the finishing touches, in Norway, to Belonging, debut recording of Keith Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’, Jarrett, Garbarek and producer Manfred Eicher headed for Germany. In Ludwigsburg they met with conductor Mladen “Bobby” Gutesha and the string players of the Südfunk Symphony Orchestra and made Luminessence.

Re-issued on vinyl with new liner notes. Available on 1. March: https://ECM.lnk.to/Luminessence_LP

18/02/2024

In the 32nd episode of the ECM Podcast we're joined by Vijay Iyer and his trio with Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey.

Listen here: https://ecm.lnk.to/PodcastIB

17/02/2024

Timeline ECM New Series
++ 1986 ++

"Elegies" introduced the violist Kim Kashkashian on ECM’s New Series for the first time, in a duo program with pianist Robert Levin – both musicians shaped the New Series significantly over the years. „Elegies“ includes Benjamin Britten´s Lachrymae – Reflections on a song of Dowland, as well as pieces by Vaughan Williams, Carter, Glazunov, Kodaly, Vieuxtemps and Liszt.
Listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/ElegiesFP

„Kashkashian weaves this tapestry seamlessly, never deserted by her viola or her amazing technical dominion over it. Emotion is layered upon emotion in deep strata. Everywhere the score asks to go, she deftly and sensibly conveys it. Levin employs his piano with the intuition of a Monet, tingeing, blending with, illuminating the viola.“
(Opus)

17/02/2024

++ NEW RELEASE ++

“Words Unspoken” the new album by John Surman and his quartet with Thomas Strønen, Rob Luft and Rob Waring is out today: https://ECM.lnk.to/WordsUnspoken

The quartet will play concerts in the coming months:
17 April: G-Live Lab Helsinki, FINLAND
18 April: G-Live Lab, Tampere, FINLAND
7 May: Maijazz, Stavanger, NORWAY
More dates tba.

16/02/2024

'Compassion' is Guardian's Jazz Album of the Month.

“Improvising around Vijay Iyer compositions and numbers by Stevie Wonder, Roscoe Mitchell and more, these musicians foreground openness and receptivity”.

The album is available on CD and 2-LP: https://ECM.lnk.to/CompassionFP

Read John Fordham's full review through the link below.

Improvising around Iyer compositions and numbers by Stevie Wonder, Roscoe Mitchell and more, these musicians foreground openness and receptivity

++ NEW RELEASE ++ “Words Unspoken” the new album by John Surman and his quartet with Thomas Strønen, Rob Luft and Rob Wa...

16/02/2024

15/02/2024

"Vijay Iyer Trio’s latest, ‘Compassion,’ feels like a highlight on the acclaimed pianist’s path in and out of jazz" - Washington Post

The album is available on CD and 2-LP: https://ECM.lnk.to/CompassionFP

Read the full article here:

Pianist Vijay Iyer found acclaim by reaching outside jazz, into the real world. Now, as that world grows more chaotic, his music is becoming clearer.

15/02/2024

Gidon Kremer’s “Songs of Fate” has been met with international acclaim and the The New York Times agrees with writer Wolfgang Sandner in saying that “this is one Kremer’s most personal undertakings.”

The booklet text by Sandner sheds light on Kremer’s heritage and the violinist’s extensive history with Baltic composers. Take a look at the first page of the liner notes.

The album is available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/SongsOfFate

15/02/2024

++ ECM New Series Timeline ++
- Early days –

Steve Reich’s pioneering brand of minimal music was premiered on ECM before the New Series imprint was even introduced. In 1978, the composer’s “Music for Eighteen Musicians” made a powerful impact on the music world that has yet to subside. Looking back on the influential recording, BBC Music Magazine says “all Reich’s experiments came together in this tour de force of ultra-disciplined bliss. The structure is tightly logical as ever (…). You can feel the sheer force of the composer driving this performance of almost superhuman finesse; every note glistens in a perfectly balanced, glowing recording.”

With Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase and Thillim two further recordings of Reich’s works followed in 1980 and 1982. All three albums are compiled in the 3-CD box-set “The ECM Recordings” from 2016, replete with a 44-page booklet containing original liner notes by Steve Reich, a new essay by Paul Griffiths, and session photography by Deborah Feingold and Barbara Klemm.
The box set is available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/SteveReichTheEcmRecordings

“Another shimmering, hypnotic minimalist classic” – The New York Times on “Music for Eighteen Musicians” In the year of the album’s release.

14/02/2024

"The jazz trio’s follow-up to 2021’s Uneasy is irresistibly listenable, an immersive 66 minutes that exhales a particular aesthetic history even as it pulls on the pain and anxiety of our present. […] Few pianists vary a theme better than Vijay Iyer, whose new album Compassion, with bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, flows with the smooth, pathfinding quality of shallow water in a rocky stream." - Pitchfork

‘Compassion’ is available on CD, 2-LP and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/Compassion

Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.

13/02/2024

“ECM is setting the bar high with this reissue series. Jazz at its highest level of creation” - Jazzwise

ECM’s audiophile vinyl-reissue series will continue its trajectory in March 2024, with the release of the title-lending Jan Garbarek recording of Keith Jarrett compositions for string orchestra and saxophone – Luminessence – from 1975.
Pre-order here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Luminessence_LP

13/02/2024

Mette Henriette will perform the music of her album 'Drifting' at the Opera in Oslo on 25 February 2024.
The album was recorded with pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Judith Hamann in the empty Munch Museum: You can listen and order the CD here: https://ECM.lnk.to/DriftingFP

Den Norske Opera & Ballett

The Norwegian-Sámi saxophonist Mette Henriette wrote herself into music history when she became the first woman to debut with a double album on ECM Records in 2015. Eight years later, she brings the long-awaited second record to Oslo Opera House.

13/02/2024

„On the "Vagabond Tour 2024" Dominic Miller and his quartet are playing 50 concerts across Europe and Asia.“ See them in concert and listen to the album here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Vagabond

13/02/2024

In 2022, Gidon Kremer spoke about discovering the music Mieczysław Weinberg, eastern European composers and his relationship with ECM Records.

Watch the interview and listen to his new album with Kremerata Baltica – ‘Songs Of Fate’. Available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/SongsOfFate

Gidon Kremer - Mieczysław Weinberg - Sonatas for Violin Solonew album out now!Listen and order here: https://ECM.lnk.to/WeinbergSonatasForViolinSoloIDECM New...

09/02/2024

++ NEW ON VINYL ++

Keith Jarrett’s interpretation of ‘Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemberg Sonatas’ is available on CD and digitally. The 2-LP Tip-On Gatefold vinyl edition will be released in February.

https://ECM.lnk.to/CarlPhilippEmanuelBach_LPFP

08/02/2024

“Strands” by P***e Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro and Marilyn Mazur continues to garner widespread critical acclaim, as the trio conjures “a highly meditative environment with telepathic elegance”, to quote Downbeat Magazine.
The album is available on all digital platforms, on CD and soon on vinyl too: https://ecm.lnk.to/StrandsIB

08/02/2024

TIMELINE ECM New Series ++ 1985 ++

Early in Lockenhaus’s history, producer Manfred Eicher began working with Gidon Kremer, who initiated the festival in 1981. They soon began tor regularly record the festival, thereby launching the “Edition Lockenhaus” in 1985 under the larger umbrella of ECM’s New Series.

These recordings are fascinating for many reasons and not least for giving us the opportunity to hear some of the finest chamber musicians of our era, alongside Gidon Kremer, early in their respective careers. The long list includes musicians now strongly associated with ECM: Kim Kashkashian, Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Demenga, Robert Levin, Heinz Holliger and more.

Original liner notes, an interview with Gidon Kremer, and new texts are presented in the 5-CD Lockenhaus box set. Gidon Kremer: “The artistic atmosphere in Lockenhaus soon has everybody speaking on the same wavelength.”
Discover here: https://ECM.lnk.to/EditionLockenhaus

„Great musicians from all over the world have been coming together at Gidon Kremer's chamber music festival in Lockenhaus for three decades. (...) In such an atmosphere, great moments, rousing and touching concerts happen all too often. ECM has released such great moments time and again, and now a wonderful box set with five CDs has been released to mark the 30th anniversary. (...) They convey much of the spirit that has been present in Lockenhaus over thirty years. This Lockenhaus edition is a musical celebration.“ – BR-KLASSIK

07/02/2024

"….The composer sets a stage for his ideas to be interpreted and expanded upon, with his fellow musicians sharing the same mental and physical space to do so with aplomb." - Mike Gates, UK Vibe

'The Blue Land' by Matthieu Bordenave is available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/TheBlueLandFP

For this gently challenging, quietly evocative and engrossing follow-up of his ECM-leader-debut “La traversée”, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave expands his trio of German pianist Florian Weber and French bassist Patrice Moret with the unique sensibilities of drummer James Maddren, whose d...

07/02/2024

5-star Review for the new Vijay Iyer Trio album!!!

“incredible fluency and immersive originality. “Compassion” is Iyer’s eighth release as a leader for ECM, and continues his drive to explore fresh territory while also referencing his forebears along the way”. – Mike Gates, UK Vibe

Read the full feature and discover ‘Compassion’ on CD and 2-LPs here: https://ECM.lnk.to/CompassionFP

Pianist/composer Vijay Iyer’s acclaimed 2021 release “Uneasy”, the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, was a triumph. The trio’s latest album “Compassion” is just as masterful, highlighting yet another creative leap for Iyer, in league...

06/02/2024

“Words Unspoken” the new album by John Surman and his quartet with Thomas Pohlitz Strønen, Rob Luft and Rob Waring. Will be released on 16 February. Pre-order and listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/WordsUnspoken

The album title alludes to the instant musical understanding found by the members of this nimble quartet assembled by great British reedman John Surman. „My idea was to put together some musical ideas that would offer a collective sense of purpose but still be open enough to allow each of us to suggest other ways of developing the material together. Everything fell into place immediately. But I soon realized it wasn‘t so much the musical ideas that made it work, it was the musicians.” Surman and US vibraharpist Rob Waring – both residents of Oslo – had previously collaborated in John’s Invisible Threads trio with Nelson Ayres, but the associations with Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen and UK guitarist Rob Luft were new. With these four quick-witted players, all debate takes place in the music, stimulated by Surman’s strongly melodic themes and improvisational imagination.

06/02/2024

Keith Jarrett’s recording of CPE Bach’s Württemberg Sonatas received rave reviews from the international press.
The 2-LP gatefold edition will be released this Friday: https://ECM.lnk.to/CarlPhilippEmanuelBach_LPFP

05/02/2024

Keith Jarrett’s interpretation of ‘Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemberg Sonatas’ is available on CD and digitally. The 2-LP Tip-On gatefold vinyl edition will be released this Friday.
https://ECM.lnk.to/CarlPhilippEmanuelBach_LPFP

05/02/2024

TIDAL dedicates cover and title track of the 'Out There' playlist to Vijay Iyer and his trio with Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey.
Listen to 'Compassion' here:
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/0bfac8e5-4ff8-44e4-b112-5fb71d39bcc1

04/02/2024

In the 31st episode of the ECM Podcast we're joined by the French Saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave, whose second leader-date for ECM, "The Blue Land" features a quartet with Florian Weber on piano, bassist Patrice Moret and new addition James Maddren on drums. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Matthieu talks about the inspirations behind the music, his approach to composition and how it all comes together in collaboration with Manfred Eicher.

Listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Podcast

02/02/2024

“It’s as if this band wants to both seduce you and discomfit you, stripping you of everything but the ability to think and see for yourself” - NY Times

** NEW RELEASE **
‚Compassion‘ , the new album by Vijay Iyer and his trio with Linda May Han Oh on double bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums is now available on CD, 2-LP and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/Compassion

ECM / ECM New Series

01/02/2024

++ ECM New Series 40 ++
In the wake of the 40th anniversary of ECM’s New Series imprint, launched in 1984 with Arvo Pärt’s seminal “Tabula Rasa”, an album from the New Series catalogue will be highlighted each week throughout the year, chronologically retracing the path that has led through four decades of influential discoveries in notated music and beyond.

++ 1984 ++
The album „Tabula Rasa“ was the very first introduction of Arvo Pärt´s music on ECM, featuring performers Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko, Keith Jarrett, Alfred Schnittke, with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Saulius Sondeckis.
This recording was the first of Pärt's long collaboration with Manfred Eicher.
Re-Discover here: https://ECM.lnk.to/TabulaRasa

„The album that brought Pärt’s name to the West, and to the world (…) Back in 1984 Tabula rasa helped re-educate our ears and throw open the doors of our musical sensibilities to spatial domains that had otherwise been closed to us. (…) This is without any shadow of a doubt one of the great recordings of the last century.“
Gramophone Magazine

In 2010, a special edition of the album was produced in collaboration with the composer’s publisher Universal Edition. It includes unpublished manuscript scores of Tabula rasa and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, and study scores of the album’s four works, as well as Wolfgang Sandner’s 1984 liner essay, and a new introductory note for this edition by Paul Griffiths.

30/01/2024

Nitai Hershkovits will play solo concerts in Europe over the next months. See him live and listen to the album "Call on the old wise" on CD and vinyl: https://ECM.lnk.to/CallOnTheOldWiseFP

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++ NEW RELEASE ++ “Words Unspoken” the new album by John Surman and his quartet with Thomas Strønen, Rob Luft and Rob Waring is out today: https://ECM.lnk.to/WordsUnspoken The quartet will play concerts in the coming months: 17 April: G-Live Lab Helsinki, FINLAND 18 April: G-Live Lab, Tampere, FINLAND 7 May: Maijazz, Stavanger, NORWAY More dates tba.

“ECM is setting the bar high with this reissue series. Jazz at its highest level of creation” - Jazzwise ECM’s audiophile vinyl-reissue series will continue its trajectory in March 2024, with the release of the title-lending Jan Garbarek recording of Keith Jarrett compositions for string orchestra and saxophone – Luminessence – from 1975. Pre-order here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Luminessence_LP

++ NEW ON VINYL ++

++ NEW ON VINYL ++ Keith Jarrett’s interpretation of ‘Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemberg Sonatas’ is available on CD and digitally. The 2-LP Tip-On Gatefold vinyl edition will be released in February. https://ECM.lnk.to/CarlPhilippEmanuelBach_LPFP

“Words Unspoken”

“Words Unspoken” the new album by John Surman and his quartet with Thomas Pohlitz Strønen, Rob Luft and Rob Waring. Will be released on 16 February. Pre-order and listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/WordsUnspoken The album title alludes to the instant musical understanding found by the members of this nimble quartet assembled by great British reedman John Surman. „My idea was to put together some musical ideas that would offer a collective sense of purpose but still be open enough to allow each of us to suggest other ways of developing the material together. Everything fell into place immediately. But I soon realized it wasn‘t so much the musical ideas that made it work, it was the musicians.” Surman and US vibraharpist Rob Waring – both residents of Oslo – had previously collaborated in John’s Invisible Threads trio with Nelson Ayres, but the associations with Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen and UK guitarist Rob Luft were new. With these four quick-witted players, all debate takes place in the music, stimulated by Surman’s strongly melodic themes and improvisational imagination.

** NEW RELEASE ** ‚Compassion‘ , the new album by Vijay Iyer and his trio with Linda May Han Oh on double bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums is now available on CD, 2-LP and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/Compassion “[Compassion] revels in dynamics that are calibrated with great care and, at times, achieve startling force” – Wall Street Journal

++ NEW RELEASE ++ The Blue Land‘ – The new quartet album by Matthieu Bordenave with pianist Florian Weber, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer James Maddren is now available on CD and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/TheBlueLand (Vinyl coming soon)

Vijay Iyer - Compassion (new album: 02.02.)

++ NEW ALBUM : 02 February ++ 'Compassion' the new album by Vijay Iyer and his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey will be released on CD, 2-LP and digital on 02 February. Pre-order now and listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Compassion The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to connect with each other almost telepathically.” Compassion, Iyer’s eighth release as a leader for ECM, continues his drive to explore fresh territory while also referencing his forebears along the way, two of them long associated with the label. The album includes a powerful interpretation of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed,” which Iyer selected as an indirect homage to the late Chick Corea. Another tip of the hat comes with “Nonaah,” a whirlwind of a piece by avant-garde sage Roscoe Mitchell, a key mentor for the pianist. Then there are Iyer’s own melodically alluring, rhythmically invigorating compositions, ranging from the pensive title track to the hook-laced highlights “Tempest” and “Ghostrumental.”

++ NOW ON VINYL ++ The Vinyl LP of ‚Zartir‘ by Levon Eskenian Gurdjieff Ensemble is out today! Get your copy here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Zartir

++ NEW RELEASE ++ On SONGS OF FATE, Gidon Kremer approaches scores by Baltic composers Raminta Šerkšnytė, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Jēkabs Jančevskis and the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg together with his Kremerata Baltica chamber ensemble and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė. CD and digital album are now available. Order and listen here: https://ECM.lnk.to/SongsOfFate

Nitai Hershkovits - Call on the old wise (NOW ON VINYL)

++ NOW ON VINYL ++ The Vinyl LP of Nitai Hershkovits ’s solo album ‘Call on the old wise’ is out today! Get your copy here: https://ECM.lnk.to/CallOnTheOldWise

On 1. March, Afric Pepperbird, the album that signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers – Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen – at the fledgling ECM label will be released as part of the LUMINESSENCE series. Pre-Order now: https://ECM.lnk.to/AfricPepperbird_LP The new vinyl edition comes in a tip-on gatefold sleeve with unreleased photos from the archive. Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year’s Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. It was the start of a lifelong association with each of the musicians, whose influence was soon to reach far beyond the borders of their homeland. In extended passages on Afric Pepperbird, with Christensen and Andersen stretching out, it’s quite often Rypdal effectively holding the centre with taut chords. Everybody is roaring here, with Garbarek deep into his free jazz vocabulary. “Garbarek should be heard,” wrote reviewer Joe Klee in DownBeat. “I would venture that not since Django Reinhardt has there been a European jazz musician so original and forward-looking as this young Norwegian.”

++ NEW ALBUM COMING SOON ++ 'Compassion' the new album by Vijay Iyer and his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey will be released on CD, 2-LP and digital on 02 February 2024. Pre-Order now and listen to the new track ‘Compassion’ here: https://ECM.lnk.to/Compassion The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to connect with each other almost telepathically.” Compassion, Iyer’s eighth release as a leader for ECM, continues his drive to explore fresh territory while also referencing his forebears along the way, two of them long associated with the label. The album includes a powerful interpretation of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed,” which Iyer selected as an indirect homage to the late Chick Corea. Another tip of the hat comes with “Nonaah,” a whirlwind of a piece by avant-garde sage Roscoe Mitchell, a key mentor for the pianist. Then there are Iyer’s own melodically alluring, rhythmically invigorating compositions, ranging from the pensive title track to the hook-laced highlights “Tempest” and “Ghostrumental.”

ARVO PÄRT - TRACTUS

ARVO PÄRT - TRACTUS is available on CD, download and streaming: https://ECM.lnk.to/Tractus 'Tractus' emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of choir and string orchestra. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste’s direction that invite alert and concentrated listening. Arvo Pärdi Keskus / Arvo Pärt Centre

Dance Of The Elders by Wolfgang Muthspiel

'Dance Of The Elders' by Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums is available on CD, VINYL and digital platforms. https://ecm.lnk.to/DanceOfTheElders Dance of the Elders is the group’s follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a “quietly impressive album”. Here Wolfgang’s successful stride continues, with his unique compositional signature on the one hand and the particularly vibrant interchanges with his trio colleagues on the other. The guitarist’s writing and approach to jazz is heavily folk-induced but equally inspired by classical music – both aspects are presented clearly throughout the album. Brian’s floating percussive injections and Scott’s nimble counterpoint on bass complement Wolfgang’s acoustic and electric playing in fluid interplay over intricate polyrhythms and adventurous harmonic landscapes.

Sinikka Langeland - 'Wind And Sun'

Sinikka Langeland - 'Wind And Sun' is available on CD and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/WindAndSun Sinikka Langeland: vocal, kantele Mathias Eick - Official: trumpet Trygve Seim: tenor and soprano saxophones Mats Eilertsen: double bass Thomas Strønen: drums “Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky”, wrote Fiona Talkington in Songlines. “Her presence and her voice are magical, but when she plays her kantele you can almost feel nature itself quivering with joy.” The expressive arc of Sinikka’s music extends from the archaic to the experimental. Rooted in folk forms but wide-open in its perspectives it demands – and on Wind and Sun gets – particularly resourceful interpreters. Langeland’s new group isan optimum assembly of Norwegian musicians, each of them an ECM bandleader in his own right, all of them contributing ideas to the ongoing musical conversation – and, as Sinikka says, “taking things further in their incredible improvised solos.” For her song texts this time, Sinikka turns to the writings of poet and novelist Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most important contemporary authors. Fosse has described the process of writing as “an act of listening” and wrestles with questions of faith in his work in a way that resonates with Sinikka’s fascination with “natural mysticism”. Wind and Sun, Sinikka Langeland’s seventh ECM album, was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in September 2022 and mixed at Munich’s Bavaria Tonstudio in March 2023.

Once Around The Room

Once Around The Room – the highly acclaimed septet album led by Joe Lovano and Jakob Bro is available on VINYL, CD and digital: https://ECM.lnk.to/OnceAroundTheRoomFP “Once Around the Room” is a variously raw and delicate balance of collective improvisation, quirky themes and haunting harmonies recorded by an A-list septet.” - John Fordham, Theguardian “A tribute to an extraordinary musician calls for an extraordinary line-up” Chris Pearson, The New York Times “the group plays orchestrally, listening to andcomplimenting each other, even as they stay true to Motian’s concept of boundaryless post bop.” Michael Toland, Big Takeover Magazine

Elina Duni - ‘A Time To Remember’

Elina Duni ‘A Time To Remember’ is out on CD, download and streaming: https://ecm.lnk.to/ATimeToRemember ‘A Time To Remember’ is a continuation of the special synergy that inhabited Elina Duni’s acclaimed ‘Lost Ships’ and finds her regrouping with that album’s quartet of guitarist Rob Luft, Matthieu Michel on flugelhorn and Fred Thomas Music on percussion and piano. As the title suggests, the notion of ‘time’ pulls through the programme like a theme, connecting music from different parts of the world – traditionals, popular songs and original compositions – in performances of deep lyricism but also fleet-footed folklore. The repertory spans Albanian and Kosovan traditionals, American songs like the Broadway classic “I’ll Be Seeing You” and Stephen Sondheim’s musical ballad “Send In The Clowns” as well as originals by Rob and Elina. Commenting on the group’s last effort, Jazzwise said that “the sum of Duni and Luft’s work together seems greater than their individual achievements, where concept and conceptualisation have combined to produce a classic.” ‘A Time To Remember’ should confirm that proposition and further expands on the qualities explored previously.

Meredith Monk – The Recordings | ECM New Series

"Meredith Monk – The Recordings” – a compelling celebration of Meredith Monk’s singular oeuvre on ECM New Series. The 13-CD box set containing all of Meredith Monk's ECM recordings was released last year and is available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/MeredithMonkTheRecordings Included are the albums Dolmen Music, Turtle Dreams, Do You Be, Book of Days, Facing North, ATLAS, Volcano Songs, mercy, impermanence, Songs of Ascension, Piano Songs, and On Behalf of Nature. Each album is a revelation. This beautifully designed box set incorporates a 300-page book reprising all original liner notes, as well as new texts and interviews. Additionally the book includes an introductory essay by Frank J. Oteri, “The Worlds of Meredith Monk”, an autobiographical text by Meredith titled “The Soul’s Messenger” and a preface by Manfred Eicher. Plus: previously unpublished photographs, quotes from the press, archival documents, and more.

Robert Levin - W.A. Mozart’s piano sonatas

American pianist and Mozart-scholar Robert Levin recorded the first complete interpretation of W.A. Mozart’s piano sonatas on the composer’s own fortepiano (Anton Walter, 1782). This comprehensive, 7-CD box set also comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer, here completed by Levin in consideration of Mozart’s idioms and the compositional mannerisms of his era. https://ecm.lnk.to/MozartPianoSonatas

Keith Jarret – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemberg Sonatas

Keith Jarrett’s interpretation of ‘Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemberg Sonatas’ is available on CD and digitally. The 2-LP Tip-On Gatefold vinyl edition will be released in February. https://ecm.lnk.to/CarlPhilippEmanuelBach