Jazz - CD

Playing Gershwin

Thomas Carbou

This title was recorded live at the historic Village Vanguard in NYC in the Fall of 2018 during Jon Batiste's residency and incorporates original material and covers. The music on this release is primarily instrumental music aside from "The Very Thought of You" featuring...

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson heads his own quartet in a program of standards and blues, recorded live at Manhattan's famed Village Vanguard. Tom Harrell whom Iverson extols for his quality of poetic "vulnerability" provides the prime melodic voice but the album courses...

Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai who explored jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years. Their first duo album begins with music composed by the trumpeter...

2019 release. The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a...

Guitarist Miller whose "ability to express emotion through a guitar is amazing to hear" has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. Absinthe finds the guitarist fronting a quintet that brings his ever-lyrical compositions to textured life. Miller has a key harmonic-melodic foil...

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall celebrate their shared love of the music of George and Ira Gershwin on their new collaborative album, LOVE IS HERE TO STAY, set for a September 14th release on Verve Records/Columbia Records. Tony Bennett, who celebrates his 92nd birthday...

Improvising vocalist, folk singer, storyteller, pianist: on her ECM debut Areni Agbabian focuses the range of her skills in music that casts a quiet spell. A sparse music in which voice, piano and the subtle percussion of Nicolas Stocker (last heard on ECM with...

Trance

New Directions

Nik B?rtsch's Ronin

Hancock, Herbie

Fitzgerald, Ella

Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan

Fitzgerald, Ella

Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane & Matthew Garrison

The Distance represents a grand creative leap for the bassist-composer whose new album showcases his texturally rich compositions for the dynamic 18-piece big band he has playfully dubbed Ensemble Kolossus. The project saw some of the most distinctive musicians on the New York scene...

Pianist Tigran Hamasyan s ECM debut is an extraordinary exploration of Armenian sacred music. Hamasyan has selected hymns and sharakans (Armenia s liturgical songs) as well as chants by Grigor Narekatsi, Nerses Shnorhali, Mesrop Mashtots, Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi, Grigor Pahlavuni, Komitas, and Makar Yekmalyan and...

Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian

Chris Potter: tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinetbrAdam Rogers: guitarsbrCraig Taborn: pianobrSteve Nelson: vibraphone, marimbabrFima Ephron: bass guitarbrScott Colley: double bassbrNate Smith: drumsbrMark Feldman: violinbrJoyce Hammann: violinbrLois Martin: violabrDave Eggar: cellobrImaginary Cities is the recording premiere of saxophonist Chris Potter s new Underground Orchestra....

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow revisit classic Bley compositions on an exceptional album recorded in Lugano last year by Manfred Eicher. Included here are spirited new versions of Utviklingssang and Vashkar, and the suites Les Trois Lagons, Wildlife and the Girl Who...

One of the most amazing aspects of Kuhn's playing is his touch control on the piano. His mastery of the soft muted hues and the loud thunderous colors of the piano is unmatched in jazz. On this new album of mostly Kuhn compositions, the...