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Windflower
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.
Topos
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.
The Old Country
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.
Seeing
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.
Samares
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.
Sphere
Piano trio album by Bobo Stenson with Anders Jormin (double bass) and Jon Fält (drums): music by Nørgård, Bäck, Sibelius, Janson and Jung-Hee Woo plus two Jormin originals. Recorded April 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
The Next Door
Second album by the Julia Hülsmann Quartet (Hülsmann piano, Uli Kempendorff tenor saxophone, Marc Muellbauer double bass, Heinrich Köbberling drums): originals by all four plus a Prince song. Recorded March 2022 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines.
A Short Diary
Duo album by drummer Sebastian Rochford and pianist Kit Downes, music written after the death of Rochford's father, poet Gerard Rochford, recorded February 2020 at the family home Waverley, Aberdeen. CD, ECM 2749, 2023.
Opening
Ninth album as a leader by Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, with Steinar Raknes (double bass, electronics) and Jarle Vespestad (drums), recorded October 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. CD, ECM 2742, 2022.
Thee They Thy
Second ECM album by singer, pianist and cantor Judith Berkson, in a trio with Trevor Dunn (double bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums), recorded July 2021 at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY, produced by Manfred Eicher. CD, ECM 2741, 2026.
Bordeaux Concert
Solo piano improvisations by Keith Jarrett, a suite in thirteen parts recorded live on 6 July 2016 at the Auditorium of the Opéra National de Bordeaux during his last European tour. Recorded by Martin Pearson, produced by Keith Jarrett.
Last Decade
ECM debut of pianist Benjamin Lackner, in a quartet with Mathias Eick (trumpet), Jérôme Regard (double bass) and Manu Katché (drums), playing eight Lackner originals and one by Regard. Recorded September 2021 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Vermillion
Piano trio album by Kit Downes (piano) with Petter Eldh (double bass) and James Maddren (drums): five pieces by Downes, five by Eldh and a Hendrix cover. Recorded May-June 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Entendre
Nik Bärtsch's first solo piano album for ECM (2021): five of his numbered Modul compositions and Déjà-vu, Vienna, played without overdubs, recorded September 2020 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Shadow Plays
Fully improvised solo piano concert by Craig Taborn, recorded live on 2 March 2020 in the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna. Produced by Manfred Eicher; his second ECM solo album after Avenging Angel.
Uneasy
Piano trio album by Vijay Iyer with Linda May Han Oh (double bass) and Tyshawn Sorey (drums): eight Iyer originals plus Cole Porter and Geri Allen. Recorded December 2019 at Oktaven Audio Studio, Mount Vernon, New York; produced by Iyer and Manfred Eicher.
Human
Shai Maestro (piano) with Jorge Roeder (double bass), Ofri Nehemya (drums) and Philip Dizack (trumpet): ten Maestro originals and Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood, recorded in early 2020 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Lonely Shadows
Solo piano album by Polish pianist Dominik Wania, eleven freely improvised pieces recorded in November 2019 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, engineered by Stefano Amerio and produced by Manfred Eicher.
En Attendant
Piano trio album by Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Sławomir Kurkiewicz (bass) and Michał Miśkiewicz (drums): three group improvisations plus Bach, Carla Bley, The Doors and an original. Recorded August 2019 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2677, 2021.
Subaqueous Silence
ECM leader debut of Oslo-based Japanese pianist Ayumi Tanaka, in trio with bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. Recorded June 2019 at Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2675, 2021.