★ECM Records
Full Force
The previous Art Ensemble of Chicago ECM album Nice Guys vaulted them to the top of improvised music groups in the U.S. and worldwide, paving the way for similar bands to be more accepted into the mainstream of modern music. Where "Full Force" genera…
Octet • Music For A Large Ensemble • Violin Phase
*Includes 24-page booklet with photos and liner notes* Steve Reich's commercial success had ballooned after his prior release on ECM, Music for 18 Musicians, and this collection of three compositions, two new and one from 1967, was the follow-up. Mus…
El Corazon
The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell’s drumming,” noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. “The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the mode…
African Piano
South African pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes "Dollar" Brand), still performing at the time of this 1969 live album under the moniker “Dollar” Brand, unleashed a mastery so enticing on African Piano, it’s a wonder that any of …
A Winter Journey
Photo book by Jan Jedlička: one black-and-white film shot on a train from Basel to The Hague on 5-8 February 1995, printed in sequence without selection. 56 pages, ECM New Series Book Edition/1, 1996.
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles is a 21-CD limited and numbered edition issued as the standard-bearers of Great Black Music prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Both the Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records were founde…
The ECM Recording
Marking the occasion of Steve Reich’s 80th birthday (hup, big man!), The ECM Recordings compiles three CDs of the venerable minimalist composer’s major works, which were consecutively released in 1978, 1980 and 1982, and continue to influence and ins…
Violin & Orchestra
Carolin Widmann’s widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music – from Schubert to Xenakis. Here she turns her attention to one of the pivotal compositions of Morton Feldman. Violin and Orchestra, composed in 1979, marked a n…
Dolmen Music
Meredith Monk and her vocal troupe cut a line between experimental theatre and music, marking a passage through the Ancient Greek tragedy, the opera, world-music, the archaic ritual and the mystical chant. It started with "Gotham Lullaby", presenting…
Sacred Hymns
A series of piano transcriptions of some solemn, now-dark, now-affirmative religious hymns by one G.I. Gurdjieff, with none of the usual flourishes and heady flights usually associated with Keith Jarrett's solo records. Jarrett assumes the proper dev…
The Rose & Punchbowl
Book of photographs by Jan Jedlička, taken at a Halloween party for hospital staff in a London pub that gave the series its name. 52 pages, stitch-bound, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.
Le Cuoche
Book of 39 video stills from Jan Jedlička's 1999 film Le Cuoche, a 36-minute portrait of the women who run the Ristorante Macchiascandona near Grosseto, Maremma. 80 pages, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.
Cape Distance
Book of 26 black-and-white landscape photographs by Werner Hannappel, taken in the Netherlands, Iceland, Scotland, France, Denmark, Ireland, Hungary and Norway, with a text by Tim Robinson in English and French. 64 pages.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum I: two CDs compiled by Keith Jarrett from his ECM recordings of 1974-1994, solo piano, clavichord, pipe organ, the overdubbed Spirits, the European Quartet and the Standards trio. Released 2002.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum XX: nine tracks featuring Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen, recorded 1974-1997 with Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Masqualero, Ketil Bjørnstad and the Bobo Stenson Trio. Released 2004.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 19 (2004): thirteen pieces chosen by Arild Andersen from his ECM albums recorded 1975-1999, with Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Masqualero, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and others.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 17 (2004): twelve pieces chosen by Tomasz Stańko from seven ECM albums recorded 1975-1998, with Dave Holland, Edward Vesala, Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek, Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Tony Oxley and others; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 16 (2004): nine Paul Motian compositions chosen by the drummer from six ECM albums recorded 1972-1987, with Keith Jarrett, Charles Brackeen, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Paul Bley and John Surman.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 14 (2004): ten tracks chosen by John Abercrombie from ten ECM albums recorded 1974-2000, with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Feldman and others; original sessions produced by Manfred Eicher.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 11 (2004): nine pieces chosen by Egberto Gismonti from seven of his ECM albums recorded 1977-1995, solo and with Naná Vasconcelos, his Brazilian groups and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra.