Music from United States

Live piano duets by Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani: improvisations, Jobim, Caymmi, Waller, Davis, standards and originals, recorded at the Umbria Jazz Winter festival, Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto, at New Year 2010-2011. Produced by Manfred Eicher.

Duo album by Keith Jarrett (piano) and Charlie Haden (double bass): eight standards and love songs recorded in March 2007 at Cavelight Studio, Jarrett's home studio in New Jersey. Produced by Jarrett and Manfred Eicher, released 2010.

This marvelous recording of these elusive works features composer-supervised performances by a hand-picked group of renowned new-music exponents.  "Your first encounter with the music of Christian Wolff leaves you with the impression you've just h…

Two CDs covering 37 years of Christian Wolff's music, mostly first recordings including the graphic score For 5 or 10 People and Schoenen met veters, played by The Barton Workshop with James Fulkerson.

2009 release ** The score of "Stones" consists of just a few lines of text:Make sounds with stones, draw sounds out of stones, using a number of sizes and kinds (and colours); for the most part discretely; sometimes in rapid sequences. For the most p…

2004 release ** Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Christian Wolff and Robin Schulkowsky recorded at Poggiolo fram, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy on April 22-24 2003. The album includes fifteen tracks performed by Christian Wolff - composition…

All of Christian Wolff's works for violin and piano: the first recording of Pebbles (1999) and two performances of Duo for Violinist and Pianist (1961), played by the Canadian duo Sabat/Clarke with the composer present.

Early Christian Wolf piano music (written 1951-61), performed by: John Tilbury & Christian Wolff (pianos), Eddie Prevost (percussion). Studio recordings from 2001/2. "During the period when these works were composed (1951-61), Christian Wolff was clo…

Live recording by Roscoe Mitchell and The Note Factory (Corey Wilkes, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, two bassists, two drummers), made on 17 March 2007 at the Stadtsaal, Burghausen, during the Burghausen jazz festival. Released by ECM in 2010.

Thirteen-limit just intonation, with the primes 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 governing the tuning, the harmony, the rhythm and the form all at once. The twelve retuned notes yield seventy-five different intervals where equal temperament gives twelve. Brown …

Jon Balke (keyboards, conductor) and Amina Alaoui (voice) set Andalusian, Sufi and Christian mystical poetry with Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin), Jon Hassell (trumpet, electronics) and Bjarte Eike's Barokksolistene. Recorded 2007-2008 at Rainbow St…

First ECM solo piano album by Marilyn Crispell: seven improvised Vignettes and other pieces of her own, plus Jayna Nelson's Cuida Tu Espiritu and Arve Henriksen's Stilleweg. Recorded April 2007 at Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred…

North Six is a mind-bogglingly great trio recording from two adepts and an up-and-coming interventionist. Definitively old-school noise in inclination, the performers repeatedly set bombs and deviant devices of their own making against each other, st…

Five chapters of sound inspired by one of the most powerful and complex emotions of humankind. arrogance is a departure from the digital machine insanity of his previous full length release, Welcome Home (Important Records), for a world of total anal…

Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums) live on 16 July 2002 at La Pinède Gould, Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins: six tunes by other composers and Jarrett's Up for It, released by ECM in 2003.

Live recording by Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums): four free improvisations and When I Fall in Love. Recorded 26 and 28 July 2000 at the Royal Festival Hall, London; produced by Manfred Eicher, released b…

Keith Jarrett alone at the piano in ten jazz ballads and folk songs by Gershwin, Ellington, Kern, Levant and others, recorded in 1998 at his Cavelight Studio in New Jersey while he was recovering from a long illness. Released by ECM in 1999.

Live recording by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, the Standards Trio, at Orchard Hall, Tokyo, on 30 March 1996: ten standards and bebop tunes, two of them flowing into Jarrett originals.

Solo piano concert by Keith Jarrett, recorded live at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 13 February 1995: two improvised sets and Over The Rainbow. Remixed at Rainbow Studio, released by ECM in 1997.

Live recording by Keith Jarrett's Standards trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, eight American songbook standards played at the Konserthus in Oslo on 7 October 1989, released by ECM in 1995.