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Craig Taborn/Craig Taborn Trio: Chants *

1 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-04-23

Tracks: Saints; Beat the Ground; In Chant; Hot Blood; All True Night/Future Perfect; Cracking Hearts; Silver Ghosts; Silver Days or Love; Speak the Name
Artists: Craig Taborn/Craig Taborn Trio

Recently hailed by DownBeat as 'one of the visionaries of the current wave,' Craig Taborn has a unique perspective on creative music-making. Just as Avenging...continue...
Personnel: Craig Taborn (piano); Thomas Morgan (double bass); Gerald Cleaver (drums).

Recording information: Avatar Studios, NY (06/2012).

Photographer: John Rogers .

Less than tw...continue...

Paul Motian: Paul Motian: Old & New Masters [Box] *

6 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-04-23

Tracks: Georgian Bay; Ch'i Energie; Rebica; Conception Vessel; American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull; Inspiration from a Vietnamese Lullaby; Victoria; Tuesday Ends Saturday; War Orphans; Sod House; Song for ...
Artists: Paul Motian

The Guardian (UK)
The opening Conception Vessel, with Keith Jarrett and violinist Leroy Jenkins, meditatively mixes world music and free jazz - and Motian, guitarist Sam...continue...
Liner Note Author: Ethan Iverson.

Recording information: Butterfly And Sound Ideas Studios, NY (05/1974); Generation Sound Studios, New York (05/1974); Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (05/1974); B...continue...

Charles Lloyd: Quartets *

5 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-04-23

Tracks: Fish Out Of Water; Haghia Sophia; Dirge, The; Bharati; Eyes Of Love; Mirror; Tellaro; Requiem; Sister; Pilgrimage To The Mountain, Pt. 1: Persevere; Sam Song; Takur; Monk In Paris; When Miss Jessye S...
Artists: Charles Lloyd

Liner Note Author: Thomas Conrad.

Recording information: Rainbow Studio, Oslo (07/1989); Rainbow Studio, Oslo (07/1993); Rainbow Studio, Oslo (07/1994); Rainbow Studio, Oslo (11/1991); Rainbow ...continue...

Andy Bey: Chillin' with Andy Bey

1 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Mountain Greenery; With a Song in My Heart; When Your Lover Has Gone; My Heart Stood Still; There Will Never Be Another You; Other Half of Me, The; You Stepped out of a Dream; Sophisticated Lady; Mor...
Artists: Andy Bey

Audio Mixer: Wolfgang Lackerschmid.

Liner Note Author: Karl Bruckmaier.

Recording information: Traumstudio, Augsburg, Germany (11/2002).

Photographer: Helmut Hien....continue...

Iva Bittová: Iva Bittová *

1 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-03-26

Tracks: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII
Artists: Iva Bittová

Personnel: Iva Bittová (vocals, violin, kalimba).

Recording information: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano (02/2012).

Photographer: Pavel Strázay.

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Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet/Tomasz Stanko: Wislawa [2 CD]

2 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-03-19

Tracks: Wislawa; Assassins; Metafizyka; Dernier Cri; Mikrokosmos; Song for H; Oni; April Story; Tutaj-Here; Faces; Shaggy Vandal, A; Wislawa, Var.
Artists: Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet/Tomasz Stanko

Personnel: Tomasz Stanko (trumpet); David Virelles (piano); Thomas Morgan (double bass); Gerald Cleaver (drums).

Liner Note Author: Tomasz Stanko.

Recording information: Avatar Studios, ...continue...

Stefano Battaglia/Stefano Battaglia Trio: Songways

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Euphonia Elegy; Ismaro; Vondervotteimittis; Armonia; Mildendo Wide Song; Monte Analogo; Abdias; Songways; Perla; Babel Hymn
Artists: Stefano Battaglia/Stefano Battaglia Trio

Allmusic.com
Songways in the process creating a deft, instinctive, and highly expressionistic music.
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Personnel: Stefano Battaglia (piano); Salvatore Maiore (double bass); Roberto Dani (drums).

Recording information: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano (04/2012).

Photographer: Ca...continue...

Stephan Micus: Panagia

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Praise You, Unfading Rose; You Are the Treasure of Life; I Praise You, Lady of Passion; You Are the Life-Giving Rain; I Praise You, Sacred Mother; You Are Like Fragrant Incense; I Praise You, Sweet-S...
Artists: Stephan Micus

Allmusic.com
This is all music that emerges from silence. Panagia is a small part of his larger body of work to be sure, but it's as...continue...
Composer: Stephan Micus.

Liner Note Author: René Dalpra.

Recording information: MCM Studios (2009-2012).

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and musical anthropologist Stephan M...continue...

Jason Moran/Charles Lloyd: Hagar's Song

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-02-26

Tracks: Pretty Girl; Mood Indigo; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; All About Ronnie; Pictogram; You've Changed; Hagar Suite: Journey Up River; Hagar Suite: Dreams of White Bluff; Hagar Suite: Alone; Hagar Suite: B...
Artists: Jason Moran/Charles Lloyd

Hagar's Song, the newest release from longtime ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is an interactive duo recording with Jason Moran, the star pianist who has been...continue...
Personnel: Jason Moran (piano, tambourine); Charles Lloyd (alto flute, bass flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone).

Recording information: Santa Barbara Sound Design (04/2012).

Photogra...continue...

Chris Potter (Saxophone): The Sirens *

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Wine Dark Sea; Wayfinder; Dawn (With Her Rosy Fingers); Sirens, The; Penelope; Kalypso; Nausikaa; Stranger at the Gate; Shades, The
Artists: Chris Potter (Saxophone)

The Sirens is saxophonist Chris Potter's ECM debut as a leader, an album of mood and melody inspired by Homer's The Odyssey - both its...continue...
Personnel: Chris Potter (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Craig Taborn (piano); David Virelles (prepared piano, celesta, harmonium); Larry Grenadier (double bass); Eric Harland (dru...continue...

Keith Jarrett: Hymns/Spheres [Digipak]

2 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-22

Tracks: Hymn of Remembrance; Spheres (1st Movement); Spheres (2nd Movement); Spheres (3rd Movement); Spheres (4th Movement); Spheres (5th Movement); Spheres (6th Movement); Spheres (7th Movement); Spheres (8...
Artists: Keith Jarrett

The complete Hymns, Spheres, at last available on compact disc. Keith Jarrett's first encounter with the Karl Joseph Riepp baroque organ of the Abbey of...continue...
Personnel: Keith Jarrett (organ).

Recording information: Ottobeuren Abbey, Germany (09/1976); Tonstudio Bauer Ludwigsburg (09/1976).

Photographer: Roberto Masotti.

Restlessly sear...continue...

Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition [Box Set] [Box]

4 CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-15

Tracks: One For Eric; Zoot Suite; Central Park West; India; Journey To the Twin Planet; Tin Can Alley; Pastel Rhapsody; Riff Raff; Gri Gri Man, The; I Know; Starburst; Ebony; Islands, The; Inflation Blues; S...
Artists: Jack DeJohnette

Audiophile Audition
Everyone gets space to shine, and when Warren takes the spotlight, the outcome is an abiding example of bass. The poetical "Pastel Rhapsody" is...continue...
Liner Note Author: Bradley Bambarger.

Recording information: Generation Sound Studios, New York, NY (03/1979); Power Station, NY (03/1979); Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (03/1979); Generation So...continue...

Food: Mercurial Balm

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-08

Tracks: Nebular; Celestial Food; Ascendant; Phase; Astral; Moonpie; Chanterelle; Mercurial Balm; Magnetosphere; Galactic Roll
Artists: Food

The Jazz Mann
Food continue to refine their unique approach to improvised music.
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Personnel: Iain Ballamy (saxophone, electronics); Thomas Stronen (saxophone, drums, percussion); Prakash Sontakke (vocals, slide guitar); Christian Fennesz, Eivind Aarset (guitar, electronics); Nils P...continue...

Eberhard Weber: Résumé

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-08

Tracks: Liezen; Karlsruhe; Heidenheim; Santiago; Wolfsburg; Amsterdam; Marburg; Tübingen; Bochum; Bath; Lazise; Grenoble
Artists: Eberhard Weber

Personnel: Eberhard Weber (keyboards).

Audio Mixers: Eberhard Weber; Gérard De Haro; Michael DiPasqua; Manfred Eicher.

Liner Note Author: Eberhard Weber.

Recording informatio...continue...

Enrico Rava: On the Dance Floor *

CD / ECM Records (USA) / 2013-01-08

Tracks: Speechless; They Don't Care About Us; Thriller; Privacy; Smile; I Just Can't Stop Loving You/Smooth Criminal; Little Susie; Blood on the Dance Floor; History
Artists: Enrico Rava

Tributee: Michael Jackson.

Personnel: Enrico Rava (trumpet); Marcello Giannini (electric guitar); Daniele Tittarelli (flute, alto saxophone); Dan Kinzelman (clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxop...continue...

Anja Lechner (Cello)/Dino Saluzzi: El Encuentro: A Film for Bandoneon and Cello

DVD Video / ECM Records (USA) / 2012-12-11

Artists: Anja Lechner (Cello)/Dino Saluzzi