Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity – Elastic Wave (ECM 2724. Album review by Jon Turney) Widely admired Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity have been together since 2014, with this ECM label debut […]
John Scofield – Solo(ECM 2727. Album review by Denny Ilett) Ever since Joe Pass’ legendary ‘Virtuoso’ series of unaccompanied albums from the late 1970s, the solo recording has been something of a […]
Kit Downes, Petter Eldh, James Maddren – Vermillion (ECM Records 3880001. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Vermillion is Kit Downes‘ third album as leader on ECM, the first being his church organ […]
Jorge Rossy, Robert Landfermann, Jeff Ballard – Puerta (ECM Records 2661. Album review by Graham Spry) Jorge Rossy is a familiar name to those who have followed the career of Brad Mehldau, […]
Eberhard Weber – Once Upon A Time – Live In Avignon (ECM 2699. Album Review by Chris Wheatley) A wonderfully lyrical bassist who announced himself as a solo artist back in 1973 […]
Marc Johnson – Overpass (ECM 3810819. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Overpass is the latest edition to ECM’s subgenre – solo bass recordings. If you’re the kind of gig-goer who goes to […]
Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestral Suites(ECM. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michael Mantler, the composer and trumpet player from Austria, has brought out two albums on the ECM label in which he looks back at and […]
Sinikka Langeland – Wolf Rune (ECM 3542600. Album Review by Alison Bentley) Once upon a time the jaw of a giant pike was made into a kantele – a kind of magical […]
Keith Jarrett – Budapest Concert (ECM Records 0730194. CD Review by John Bungey) The disclosure by the 75-year-old pianist this week [Oct 21] that a pair of strokes in 2018 may well […]
Matthieu Bordenave/Patrice Moret/Florian Weber – La Traversée(ECM 088 2928. CD review by Peter Bacon) I have a hunch – completely unsubstantiated – that there are more albums by clarinettist/saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre to be found […]
“Finding myself on this label under my own name is a dream come true.” Dominik Wania is an outstanding young Polish pianist of a striking originality, whose fully improvised solo piano album […]
Terje Rypdal – Conspiracy (ECM 6025 0895911 Review by Graham Spry) For followers of Terje Rypdal’s 50 years of recording on ECM, listening to Conspiracy is like immersing oneself in a warm […]
Michel Benita Quartet – Looking At Sounds (ECM 6025 0872884. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michel Benita is a a French bass player born in Algeria. He is mainly known in the UK for […]
Avishai Cohen – Big Vicious (ECM 083 6025. CD review by Nick Davies) It’s not often a record brings you to a complete standstill. Well, the latest release from 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 […]
