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 […]
Marc Johnson – ‘Overpass’
Michael Mantler: ‘Coda – Orchestral Suites’
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’
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”
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”
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 […]
Dominik Wania (new album “Lonely Shadows” on ECM, out 18 Sept)
“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”
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”
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”
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, […]
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 […]
Oded Tzur – “Here Be Dragons”
Oded Tzur – Here Be Dragons (ECM 083 5998. CD review by Peter Bacon) Oded Tzur makes an extraordinary sound with his tenor saxophone. I suppose the last time I was quite so […]
ECM at 50 Celebration Concerts at the Royal Academy of Music
RAM concerts: ECM at 50 (Susie Sainsbury Theatre, RAM, 30 and 31 January 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney – Thursday; Sam Norris – Friday first half) The Royal Academy’s celebration of the […]
Keith Jarrett – “Munich 2016”
Keith Jarrett – Munich 2016 (ECM. 2667/68 779 3748. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Every time I see there’s a new release of solo piano by Keith Jarrett, I find myself asking […]
Royal Academy of Music to mark ECM Records’ 50th Anniversary (30-31 Jan 2020)
Sebastian writes: It has just been announced that the Royal Academy of Music will have a mini-festival over two nights to mark the ECM Records 50th Anniversary. 30 January, 7.30 pm Susie […]
