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Three compositions by Keith Jarrett for string orchestra and saxophone, with Jan Garbarek (tenor, soprano saxophone) and the strings of the Südfunk Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart conducted by Mladen Gutesha, recorded 29-30 April 1974 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg. ECM 1975. CD edition.

First album as a leader by guitarist John Abercrombie, a trio with Jan Hammer (organ, piano, synthesizer) and Jack DeJohnette (drums), recorded on 21-22 June 1974 at Generation Sound Studios, New York, and released by ECM in 1975. CD edition.

Steve Beresford, keyboards, small trumpet; Dennis Palmer, synthesizers, voice; Bob Stagner, drums, percussion; Roger Turner, drums, percussion. The pencil - a history (09.04), Trees without dogs (00.33), Our world as we know it (05.24), Name without a street (00.13), Bulldog eating a wasp [Waspers] (14.42), Matzoh spectacles [thank you Lol Coxhill] (01.27), Earthling-a-ding (03.39), Faster than $ sound (11.23), Standing on a whale (05.53), Fearing puffins (05.03).Recorded at The Place, London in…

Free improvisation trio of Jan Garbarek (saxophones, flute), Arild Andersen (bass) and Edward Vesala (percussion), recorded 8 November 1972 at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. Released April 1973. CD edition.

Chick Corea's 1972 ECM album with Joe Farrell, Flora Purim, Stanley Clarke and Airto Moreira, recorded 2-3 February 1972 at A & R Studios, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher. CD edition.

Chick Corea's first ECM album as a leader, a piano trio with Dave Holland (bass) and Barry Altschul (drums), recorded 11-13 January 1971 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, produced by Manfred Eicher. Released April 1971. CD edition.

ECM 1007, the label debut of the Jan Garbarek Quartet with Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen, recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, on 22-23 September 1970, produced by Manfred Eicher. Released 1 January 1971. CD edition.

Documentary on saxophonist Charles Lloyd, directed by Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse, with archive footage, concerts and interviews with Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Jack DeJohnette and others. 113 minutes, premiered 2013, ECM 2014.

Film by Prashant Bhargava on the Holi festival in Mathura, with a score by Vijay Iyer for the International Contemporary Ensemble, commissioned for the Rite of Spring centenary and premiered at Chapel Hill in March 2013. With making-of.

Live double album by Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums), recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie on 15 October 1989 and produced by Manfred Eicher. Ten standards each dedicated to a jazz musician, plus two Jarrett originals.

First ECM album by the Louis Sclavis Quintet: Sclavis (clarinets, soprano saxophone), Dominique Pifarély (violin), François Raulin (piano, synthesizer), Bruno Chevillon (bass), Christian Ville (drums), recorded in September 1991 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. Cassette edition.

First album under her own name by Norwegian singer Sidsel Endresen, with Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion), Django Bates (piano) and Jon Christensen (percussion), recorded in June 1990 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, and released by ECM in 1990. Cassette edition.

Studio album by Terje Rypdal (guitar) with Allan Dangerfield (keyboards, Synclavier), Bjørn Kjellemyr (bass) and Audun Kleive (drums), recorded in August 1988 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher and released by ECM in 1989. Cassette edition.

Double album by the John Scofield trio with Vicente Archer (double bass) and Bill Stewart (drums): seven Scofield originals and seven covers, recorded in August 2022 at Clubhouse Studio, Rhinebeck, New York, and released by ECM in 2023. Double LP edition.

Keith Jarrett's solo piano concert recorded live on 16 July 2016 at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, the last night of his European tour: twelve improvised parts and three encores. 2LP, ECM 2667/68, released 2019.

Debut album of the Tord Gustavsen Trio: Tord Gustavsen (piano), Harald Johnsen (double bass), Jarle Vespestad (drums), recorded December 2001 and June 2002 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. First vinyl edition (2LP) of ECM 1834 (2003), Luminessence series.

Recorded at Axel's house. Berlin. July 2004. December 2005. Limited edition of 200

Jan Garbarek (tenor and soprano saxophone), Anouar Brahem (oud) and Ustad Shaukat Hussain (tabla), recorded August 1992 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. First vinyl edition (2LP) of ECM 1515 (1994), Luminessence series.

First duo album by guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland, with nine originals by the two, recorded in August 2024 at NRS Recording Studio, Catskill NY, and produced by the musicians. LP edition, released 2025.

Debut of Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet with Julian Lage (guitar), Asante Santi Debriano (double bass) and Will Calhoun (drums), recorded in February 2025 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher. LP edition, released 2026.

Second ECM album by saxophonist Joe Lovano with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio (Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz), recorded in November 2023 at Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey, produced by Manfred Eicher. LP edition, released 2025.

Patternmaster is a 2026 ECM album by tenor saxophonist Mark Turner's pianoless quartet with Jason Palmer (trumpet), Joe Martin (double bass) and Jonathan Pinson (drums): six Turner originals recorded in April 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Spindrift is the second ECM album by German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner, with Mathias Eick (trumpet), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Linda May Han Oh (bass) and Matthieu Chazarenc (drums), recorded in March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Ashes to Gold is a 2024 ECM album by Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen with Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori and Ziv Ravitz: a five-part suite, Ravel's Adagio assai and a piece by his daughter, recorded in November 2023 at Studios La Buissonne.

Vagabond is Dominic Miller's third ECM album, eight originals for a quartet with pianist Jacob Karlzon, bassist Nicolas Fiszman and drummer Ziv Ravitz, recorded in April 2021 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Uma Elmo is a 2021 ECM album by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro in a bassless trio with trumpeter Arve Henriksen and drummer Jorge Rossy, recorded in August-September 2020 at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Oded Tzur's ECM debut, with Nitai Hershkovits (piano), Petros Klampanis (double bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums): raga-based originals and a cover of Can't Help Falling In Love, recorded in Lugano in June 2019 and produced by Manfred Eicher. LP edition.

Miroslav Vitous's first ECM album as leader in ten years: duets with Michel Portal, pieces with Jack DeJohnette and two suites with Esperanza Spalding, Bob Mintzer and orchestra, recorded 2003-2010 at his Universal Syncopations studio and produced with Manfred Eicher. LP edition.

Dominic Miller's second ECM album, ten originals for a quintet with Santiago Arias (bandoneon), Mike Lindup (keyboards), Nicolas Fiszman (bass) and Manu Katché (drums), recorded at Studios La Buissonne in February 2018 and produced by Manfred Eicher. LP edition.

Tord Gustavsen's first trio album in over a decade, with Sigurd Hole on double bass and Jarle Vespestad on drums: originals, Bach chorales and Scandinavian hymns, recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, in January 2018 and produced by Manfred Eicher. LP edition.

Jakob Bro's sextet session with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan and Andrew Cyrille, recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, in March 2014, produced by Manfred Eicher and first released by ECM in November 2024. LP edition.

Guitarist Dominic Miller's first ECM album, eleven pieces for acoustic guitar, mostly solo, with percussionist Miles Bould on some tracks. Recorded March 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher, released 2017.

Manu Katché's first ECM album as leader, ten of his compositions played with Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski and Slawomir Kurkiewicz. Recorded March and November 2004 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher, first released in 2005.

Chick Corea's first solo piano album, improvised at the Arne Bendiksen Studio in Oslo on 21 and 22 April 1971, produced by Manfred Eicher and first released by ECM in 1971. Luminessence LP reissue in gatefold sleeve.

Anthony Braxton invited Milo Fine to travel half way across the USA so they could make some music together for the very first time. The result was the extended free improvisation (with gaps) which is heard complete on this CD. Braxton used four saxophones, and Fine two clarinets, piano and drums. Recorded 2/25/04.

Alphea was formed in Hamburg 1991. The duo has performed in jazz clubs, art galleries and on jazz and contemporary music festivals, playing music structured exclusively by their own concepts.Hannes Wienert (alto and soprano saxophones, trumpet) studied visual arts. Peter Niklas Wilson (double bass) has performed and recorded with John Tchicai, Marion Brown, Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton.

Recorded live in London's beautiful Union Chapel in 1987. The organic control of sound on this is spectacular - pretty much a must for serious listeners worldwide.. Free imrovisation in the hands of Amm valorises the unknown, combining unpredictabiity with contexual coherence and the implicit drama of emotion and meaning in play. By opening out the moment it reveals the inherent wilderness of living processes that we lose sight of in an environment of over-determination, where the planned and th…

A testament to the interaction between the experimental avant-garde and the countercultural underground, the album was originally released on Elektra, recorded by Jac Holzman (the label's founder, responsible for signing The Doors, Love, and The Stooges) and produced by DNA, a group that included Pink Floyd's first manager, Peter Jenner (the title of Pink Floyd's 'Flaming' is a tribute to AMM's 'Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset'). Formed in 1965 by three players from the emerging British ja…

Ami Yoshida and Christof Kurzmann are both well-respected artists within the international community, each performing in a wide range of contexts from abstract to pure pop. Both are best known for their long-running duos, Yoshida for Cosmos (with Sachiko M) and Kurzmann for schnee (with Burkhard Stangl). This project finds them in far less comfortable territory, and a s o is the outcome of two years of hard work.Ami Yoshida strives to create a pure sound, abstracting her voice until it becomes a…

'Amazing improvisation joining jazz tones with electronic sounds, embellished with Tamaru's production'.