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First duo album by Gary Burton (vibraphone) and Chick Corea (piano), recorded on 6 November 1972 at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, and produced by Manfred Eicher. Pieces by Corea, Steve Swallow and Michael Gibbs.

Keith Jarrett's first solo piano album and first ECM recording, eight original pieces recorded on 10 November 1971 at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, during a day off from touring with Miles Davis. Produced by Manfred Eicher.

Terje Rypdal's first album as leader for ECM, recorded in August 1971 at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, with Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Inger Lise Rypdal and others. Produced by Manfred Eicher.

Paul Bley's 1971 ECM album of three Annette Peacock compositions, recorded by two piano trios in New York in March and July 1967, with Barry Altschul on drums and Gary Peacock or Mark Levinson on bass.

Ritornare (ECM, 2026) is the ECM debut of Enzo Favata's quintet Atlantico, with Marcello Peghin (ten-string guitar), Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Salvatore Maltana (double bass) and U.T. Gandhi (drums). Recorded January 2026 in Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Winter Songs (ECM, 2026) is Steve Swallow's first leader album since 2013: nine originals, One to Nine, played by a sextet with Chris Cheek, Mike Rodriguez, Gil Goldstein, Steve Cardenas and Adam Nussbaum. Recorded September 2024 at Sear Sound, New York.

Feebles, Fables and Ferns (ECM, 2026) is a previously unreleased duo session by guitarist Mick Goodrick and pianist Fred Hersch, recorded in August 1988 at Classic Sound Studio, New York, produced by Hersch and remixed in 2025 by Chris Allen.

While I Was Away (ECM, 2026) is the first album by Julia Hülsmann's octet: piano, violin, cello, bass and drums with singers Aline Frazão, Live Maria Roggen and Michael Schiefel, setting Dickinson, Atwood and Cummings. Recorded September 2023 at Hansa Studio, Berlin.

Corners (ECM, 2026) is the first ECM album by Enrico Rava's Fearless Five (Paggi, Diodati, Ponticelli, Polidoro) with guest Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone: nine originals recorded in July 2025 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, produced by Manfred Eicher.

First duo album by pianist Marilyn Crispell and bassist Anders Jormin: four free improvisations and seven compositions by the two. Recorded July 2025 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Duo album by singer Elina Duni (voice, percussion) and guitarist Rob Luft (guitars, electronics): songs by Irving Berlin, Pino Daniele, Fauré, Ornette Coleman, Kosovan tradition and three originals. Recorded June 2025 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Awesome trio, Ernesto Rodrigues, violin, viola; José Oliveira, percussion, acoustic guitar; Marco Franco, soprano saxophone. Recorded on 6 November 2001 at Exit Studio, Lisbon.

Trumpeter Ralph Alessi's quintet with his brother Joseph Alessi (trombone), Matt Mitchell (piano), John Hébert (double bass) and Ches Smith (drums, vibraphone) in eleven Alessi compositions. Recorded February 2025 at Oktaven Audio, produced by Alessi and Manfred Eicher.

eRikm and dieb13 are two of the most prominent and well-respected experimental turntablists in the world, both working in a wide range of contexts, from the classical world to club DJing. Over the last two years, they have begun frequently working as a duo, and chaos club marks their first duo recording together. eRikm, from Marseille, burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s as a virtuoso turntablist. Since then, he has gradually shifted his output into a more abstract vein, often abandoning the tu…

First duo album by guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland: nine of their own compositions, five by Scofield and four by Holland. Recorded August 2024 at NRS Recording Studio, Catskill, New York, produced by the two musicians.

New trio of pianist Ayumi Tanaka, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Thomas Strønen: eight collectively improvised pieces and Tanaka's La Source. Recorded May 2025 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Eleventh ECM album by guitarist Steve Tibbetts: twenty linked parts of improvised guitar over loops and drones, with Marc Anderson (percussion, gongs, handpan, loops) and JT Bates (drums). Recorded 2021-2024 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Drummerless trio of English saxophonist Andy Sheppard with pianist Rita Marcotulli and bassist Michel Benita: eight Sheppard originals and Carla Bley's Lawns. Recorded March 2025 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Debut of Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet with Julian Lage (guitar), Asante Santi Debriano (bass) and Will Calhoun (drums): five Lovano originals plus pieces by Charlie Haden and Wayne Shorter. Recorded February 2025 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Duo album by Greek lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim: free reworkings of Bartok's six Romanian Folk Dances alongside four originals. Recorded February 2024 at Sierra Studios, Athens, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Second ECM album by the quartet of Swiss saxophonist Nicolas Masson with Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass) and Lionel Friedli (drums): ten Masson originals and one group improvisation, recorded November 2023 at Studios La Buissonne.

Second ECM album by Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone, tárogató, percussion) with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (double bass), Michal Miskiewicz (drums). Recorded November 2023 at Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Third ECM album by Thomas Strønen's Time Is A Blind Guide: Strønen (drums), Ayumi Tanaka (piano), Håkon Aase (violin), Leo Svensson Sander (cello), Ole Morten Vågan (double bass). Recorded December 2021 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, mixed in Munich in 2024.

Second ECM album by Mark Turner's pianoless quartet with Jason Palmer (trumpet), Joe Martin (double bass) and Jonathan Pinson (drums): six Turner originals, recorded April 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Second ECM album by pianist Benjamin Lackner, with a new quintet: Mathias Eick (trumpet), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Linda May Han Oh (double bass), Matthieu Chazarenc (drums). Recorded March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.

First duo album by clarinettist Louis Sclavis and pianist Benjamin Moussay: nine new pieces, two-thirds by Moussay, the rest by Sclavis. Recorded March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Eight previously unreleased performances by Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Paul Motian (drums), recorded live at the Deer Head Inn, Pennsylvania, on 16 September 1992, the same night as the 1994 album At the Deer Head Inn. Produced by Bill Goodwin.

Arild Andersen's first solo album: double bass with loops created live through effect pedals. Recorded in concert on 18 June 2020 at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, with one piece recorded at home; mixed at Rainbow Studio in 2024.

Pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri arrange Transylvanian songs and dances collected by Béla Bartók. Recorded live on 29 October 2022 at CJT Hall, Timișoara, for the Retracing Bartók project; produced by Steve Lake.

A five-part suite by trumpeter Avishai Cohen, written after 7 October 2023, plus Ravel's Adagio assai and a tune by his daughter. With Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass) and Ziv Ravitz (drums). Recorded November 2023 at Studios La Buissonne.

Tord Gustavsen Trio with Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Steinar Raknes (double bass): five Gustavsen originals, a Norwegian hymn, two Bach chorales and Nearer My God, to Thee. Recorded October 2023 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2820, 2024.

ECM debut of Israeli soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen with Tom Oren (piano), Alon Near (double bass) and Alon Benjamini (drums), eight Cohen originals. Recorded September 2023 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2818, 2025.

Second duo album by Trygve Seim (soprano and tenor saxophones) and Frode Haltli (accordion): originals, improvisations, Ukrainian and North Indian songs, a Stravinsky coda. Recorded June 2023 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2813, 2024.

Duo album by Norma Winstone (voice) and Kit Downes (piano): four Downes pieces, songs by John Taylor, Carla Bley, Ralph Towner and Aidan O'Rourke, two traditionals, nine with Winstone lyrics. Recorded April 2023 at Artesuono, Udine, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2811, 2024.

Debut album of the trio Alice Zawadzki (voice, violin), Fred Thomas (piano, vielle, drums) and Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass): Ladino, Polish, French and Latin American songs. Recorded June 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2810, 2024.

Third ECM album by the Colin Vallon Trio: Vallon (piano, electronics), Patrice Moret (double bass), Julian Sartorius (drums), nine Vallon compositions. Recorded June-July 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2809, 2024.

Bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi with his son José María Saluzzi (classical guitar) and Jacob Young (electric and steel-string guitar): originals by all three, Karin Krog's Northern Sun and two standards. Recorded April 2023 at Saluzzi Music Studio, Buenos Aires. ECM 2802, 2025.

Debut duo album by Arve Henriksen (trumpet, electronics) and Harmen Fraanje (piano): ten pieces, mostly co-written, between improvisation and written themes. Recorded January 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2794, 2024.

A sequence of 13 improvised duets featuring Sharp on soprano sax, dobro, electric fretless guitar, 8-string guitarbass and computer, and Friedl playing inside piano and prepared piano. The results are more instrumental, less electronic than on their previous duo album -- Anostalgia on Grob. Recorded in March, 2001.

Elina Duni (voice) with Rob Luft (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn) and Fred Thomas (piano, drums): Albanian and Kosovan traditionals, standards and Duni/Luft originals. Recorded July 2022 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines. ECM 2781, 2023.