Jazz

Fitzgerald, Ella

Trombone Shorty

Krall, Diana

This is one of seven historical albums, mastered from original analog sources, issued simultaneously in three media formats - as 180 gram vinyl albums, as CDs, as high-resolution download files. Follow the great arc of music on these early ECM productions, with works for...

Between 1979 and 1982, the Miroslav Vitous Group was the primary outlet for the abundant improvisational skills of leader Vitous and John Surman. They made three ECM albums: this eponymously-titled disc from 1980 is the middle one. Vitous and Surman were well-matched in lots...

THE ABSENCE is the third record from Grammy-nominated Melody Gardot. Produced by Heitor Pereira, renowned for his work as a film composer (DESPICABLE ME, IT'S COMPLICATED, FROM PRADA TO NADA) and world-class session guitarist (Sting, Seal, Caetano Veloso), the Brazilian-born, US-based artist shared Melody's...

And If is the second ECM album by Israeli pianist/composer Anat Fort and was produced by the label's founder, Manfred Eicher in Oslo earlier this year.

ASTOUNDING EYES OF R

An exciting new duo, of unusual instrumentation, initiated by American master guitarist Ralph Towner. Towner s acoustic guitar concept has long since absorbed and abstracted influences from baroque music, contemporary composition, Brazilian music and jazz, above all the jazz of Bill Evans. In this...

David Torn's eagerly-awaited first ECM recording in 21 years is a sonic voyage that defies categories and blurs boundaries. iPrezensi is also the debut of a unique band featuring three of the most recognizable names in experimental jazz - Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and...

The debut recording of guitarist BILL FRISELL'S trio with bassist THOMAS MORGAN & drummer RUDY ROYSTON is a wide-ranging 13-song set that mixes Frisell originals new & old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. Valentine explores the creative freedom of the trio format and...

After making a striking appearance on Joel Ross' KingMaker, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins delivers an expansive opus about the Black experience in America on his own debut album, Omega, which was produced by Jason Moran and features a next-generation quartet with pianist Micah Thomas,...

The members of Les Vents Français, which has been described as “the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup” join the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Daniel Giglberger in five examples of the sinfonia concertante. The form flourished in the decades around 1800, particularly in Paris...

BLUE NOTE RE:IMAGINED(7")

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of a Hammond B-3 organ. Arguably his finest moments, the sessions with Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax) helped define jazz. Prayer Meetin' is brimming with the bluesy grooves that made their collaborations...

Curtis Stigers returns with a new album that offers a wry yet elegant reassessment of the modern male. Along with his own lyrical observations, Stigers also commiserates and celebrates with the words of top songwriters like Nick Lowe, Tom T. Hall and John Fulbright.

From the beginning of Kandace Springs' new album - as those warm, hand-plucked bass notes fill the air - you know you've arrived at something different. While 2018's Indigo found the Nashville singer-pianist bends into new genre forms, The Women Who Raised Me adheres...

Ted Poor is a Seattle-based drummer whose adventurous, soulful playing has vaulted him to the stages of some of today's most important musicians and placed him amongst those drummers most in demand. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 2003, Ted moved...

Drummer Tony Williams had a long, fruitful relationship with Blue Note Records starting in the 1960s when he appeared on numerous post bop classics (Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage, Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch, Andrew Hill Point of Departure) and made his first 2 albums...

Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made "old school" style in just one day in New York in March 2019. "I love these songs", says Scofield of the selection of Swallow...

The first-time teaming of Poland's dynamic Marcin Wasilewski Trio and big-toned US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays four new tunes by Marcin and one by Joe, as...

The Comet Is Coming released sophomore album, Lifeforce, in March. Now, the English band will release The Afterlife. "The Afterlife has been a topic of deep consideration and one of the keys to spiritual mythology around the world for millennia," says Danalogue. "The two...

Angel Song (Colour 2LP)

The legendary saxophonist, composer and jazz mystic Charles Lloyd celebrated his 80th birthday on March 15, 2018 at his hometown venue, Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre, with an unprecedented grouping of musical friends including guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer...