Jean-Louis Matinier and Kevin Seddiki – Rivages (ECM 0864800. CD review by Mary James) If you articulate the word “Rivages” aloud you breathe in and then out, gently and naturally. And so […]
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki – “Rivages”
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – “Angular Blues”
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – Angular Blues (ECM 0814506. Review by John Arnett) This album was recorded in Japan in one day in August 2018, shortly after the trio’s […]
In lockdown with… trumpeter Avishai Cohen
Born in Tel Aviv, trumpeter Avishai Cohen moved to the US to study at Berklee and won the Thelonious Monk competition in 1997. He recently released the fourth record in his own […]
#IWD2020: Areni Agbabian, vocalist, pianist and composer
Leah Williams speaks to Armenian-American musician Areni Agbabian for International Women’s Day about the women who raised her musically, working with Tigran Hamasyan, and signing to ECM Records. Areni is best-known to […]
ECM at 50 events (EFG London Jazz Festival 15 & 17 Nov)
Peter Bacon reports: The ongoing celebrations that surround ECM Records’ 50th birthday, will, we are reliably informed, continue well into 2020, but are represented In London this month with concerts by ECM […]
