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Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise (CD: ECM)Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise (CD: ECM)
An ECM debut from Masabumi Kikuchi and a last session from the great Paul Motian. Motian and Kikuchi were friends for many years and Paul understood the idiosyncracies and the wayward charm of the Japanese pianist’s highly personal style perhaps better than anyone. The trio - completed by Zen bassist Thomas Morgan - makes new art out of the interactive free rubato ballad. A strangely beautiful album. (ECM Records) 


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John Mayer: Etudes/ Radha Krishna (CD: First Hand)
John Mayer's success through the 1960's with Indo-Jazz Fusions saw the release of four LP's over a four year period. Indo-Jazz Suite (1966), Indo-Jazz Fusions (1967) ,Indo-Jazz Fusions II (1968), and Etudes (1969), Sonet SNT603 which is the only LP not to have been re-released until now.

Two groundbreaking LPs on one CD, wonderfully remastered at Abbey Road Studios - Both albums appear on CD for the first time. “Etudes” was the last Indo-Jazz Fusions release with the old personnel. Four more albums were released between 1993 and 2000 with different band members.

“Radha Krishna”, which combines Indian modes with a strong classical Western influence, was originally released by EMI in 1971. Comprising of a large ensemble, including sitar, tabla, drums, sax, string trio, soprano, tenor etc... and featuring inspired solos from Tony Coe, Chris Taylor and Clem Alford. (Discovery Records) 


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John Mayer: Etudes/ Radha Krishna (CD: First Hand)


Dhafer Youssef: Divine Shadows (CD: Jazzland)Dhafer Youssef: Divine Shadows (CD: Jazzland)
 


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Manu Katché: Neighbourhood (CD: ECM)
Manu Katché’s first leader date for ECM finds him fronting a remarkable band, assembled by producer Manfred Eicher, which brings the French-African drummer together with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko. Two of Stanko’s gifted young associates, pianist Marcin Wasilewski and bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz, complete an ensemble which plays Manu’s music with enormous assurance, as if they’ve been playing together for years. (ECM Records) 


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Manu Katché: Neighbourhood (CD: ECM)


Manu Katché: Neighbourhood (Vinyl LP: ECM)Manu Katché: Neighbourhood (Vinyl LP: ECM)
Neighbourhood is a thoughtful, feelgood jazz album that harks back to the traditions of modern jazz while remaining contemporary - thanks to Katché‘s inventive drumming.” - John L Walters, The Guardian. Released for the first time on vinyl. (Proper Music) 


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Manu Katché: Playground (CD: ECM)
Eagerly awaited second ECM album by French-African drummer Manu Katché. Recorded in New York’s Avatar Studio in January 2007, “Playground” picks up where the best-selling “Neighbourhood” left off: in the interim the project has coalesced into a rip-roaring and fully-integrated band. Manu’s group, featuring a Polish/Norwegian confederacy of young players, is energized by his hard driving drums and by his compositions which invite spirited solos... Together, the quintet - whose strong new frontline features Mathias Eick and Trygve Seim - makes exciting, zestful music. (ECM Records) 


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Manu Katché: Playground (CD: ECM)


Manu Katché: Third Round (CD: ECM)Manu Katché: Third Round (CD: ECM)
Intensified commitment to the French-African drummer’s programme of “beautifully mutated grooves and jazzy themes” (to quote The Guardian) distinguishes Manu Katché’s third ECM album. Inside an all-new line-up, bassist Pino Palladino nonchalantly reinforces the groove element – he and Katché have much shared history as sessioneers – and helps the pulses of Manu’s tunes to dance. Pianist Rebello has both delicacy of touch and energy to burn, and saxophonist Brunborg, currently playing at a peak, solos passionately on Katché’s melodies. Guest guitarist Jacob Young shades and colours a handful of pieces, while Kami Lyle adds innocent vocals to “Stay With You”. Recorded in the South of France in December 2009 and issued on the eve of a major European tour, “Third Round” is poised to be one of the season’s jazz hits. (ECM Records) 


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Manu Katché: Manu Katché (CD: ECM)
Eponymously-titled album from Manu Katché. On his fourth ECM disc, Manu’s unique drumming sets the scene and direction, with compositions and arrangements radiating outward from its rhythm-patterns. His strongly propulsive yet relaxed groove is unlike any other drummer’s, and it lifts up the soloists. Personnel in the ever-changing Katché band currently includes Norwegians Nils Pettter Molvær and Tore Brunborg, first heard together on ECM in the band Masqualero in the 1980s: they still play most attractively together. British keyboardist Jim Watson also makes a strong showing with minimalistically-insistent as well as lyrical piano and thick, swirling organ. Recorded March 2012 in the South of France. (ECM Records) 


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Manu Katché: Manu Katché (CD: ECM)


Egberto Gismonti: Danca Das Cabecas (Vinyl LP: ECM)Egberto Gismonti: Danca Das Cabecas (Vinyl LP: ECM)
Recorded in Oslo in 1976 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Danca Das Cabecas is reissued on 180g vinyl with a free download code included. 


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Egberto Gismonti & Nana Vasconcelos (CD: ECM Touchstones)
The partnership of Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vasconçelos brought new colours to improvised music on ECM. Sounds of the rainforest are conveyed in Nana’s percussion, and Egberto’s guitar, for all its sophistication, always retained an earthy directness.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Egberto Gismonti & Nana Vasconcelos (CD: ECM Touchstones)


Anouar Brahem: Conte de L'incroyable Amour (CD: ECM Touchstones)Anouar Brahem: Conte de L'incroyable Amour (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Tunisian oud master Brahem invites two Turkish musicians into his soundworld, ney player Kudsi Erguner, from the Sufi tradition, and clarinettist Barbaros Erköse, an exponent of Romany gipsy music.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Anouar Brahem: Khomsa (CD: ECM)
Reissue of Anouar Brahem's 1995 album Khomsa featuring Richard Galliano, Jean Marc Larché and Bechir Selmi, alongside ECM mainstays Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. 


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Anouar Brahem: Khomsa (CD: ECM)


Anouar Brahem Trio: Astrakan Café (CD: ECM)Anouar Brahem Trio: Astrakan Café (CD: ECM)
Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem counts as one of ECM’s most important "discoveries" of the last decade. After his highly successful trans-cultural recording "Thimar", he returns to a more purely Middle Eastern music on "Astrakan Café", with the trio that has been his first priority for several years. The improvisational exchanges between Brahem, clarinettist Barbaros Erköse and percussionist Lassad Hosni are exceptionally fluid, and the atmospheres that they create by turns mysterious, hypnotic, dramatic. (ECM Records) 


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Anouar Brahem: Le Pas Du Chat Noir (CD: ECM)
Hypnotic, magnetic new album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician. "Le pas du chat noir" gives the clearest indication yet of the work of Brahem as composer and features a spacious "chamber music" that resonates with the freshness of improvisation. The instrumentation is unique: oud, piano, accordion. Brahem’s writing for this combination is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse. Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones, sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion’s bellows. (ECM Records) 


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Anouar Brahem: Le Pas Du Chat Noir (CD: ECM)


Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (CD: ECM)Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (CD: ECM)
Delightful new project, assembled by Tunisian oud master Brahem with producer Manfred Eicher. Combination of bass clarinet with oud suggests a link to Anouar’s “Thimar” trio, but this East/West line-up often feels closer to the more traditionally-inclined sounds of “Barzakh” or “Conte de l’Incroyable Amour”. Klaus Gesing, from Norma Winstone’s Trio, and Björn Meyer, from Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, are both players with an affinity for musical sources beyond jazz, and they interact persuasively inside Brahem’s music. A dance of dark, warm sounds, urged onward by the darbouka and frame drum of Lebanaese percussionist Khaled Yassine. The album is dedicated to the memory of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. (ECM Record) 


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Anouar Brahem: Souvenance (CD: ECM, 2 CDs)
The music of 'Souvenance', by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 - six years after oud-master Anouar Brahem's last ECM album, 'The Astounding Eyes of Rita' (1798628).

"It took a long time to write this music," he acknowledges, noting that his emotional world had been usurped by the unfolding story of political upheaval sweeping first through Tunisia then through the neighbouring countries. Extraordinary waves of change, accompanied by great hopes and fears. "I don't claim a direct link between my compositions and the events taking place in Tunisia," says Anouar, "but I have been deeply affected by them."

New directions for the music find pianist Fran?ois Couturier returning to the Brahem group, frequently supported by subtle string orchestration. The strings (the distinguished Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana) have a glowing transparency and fragility in these pieces, often providing shimmering texture against which the compelling contributions of the quartet members - and, above all, Anouar Brahem's unique oud-playing - stand out in bold relief. (Proper Note) 


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Anouar Brahem: Souvenance (CD: ECM, 2 CDs)


Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams (CD: ECM)Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams (CD: ECM)
Recorded in New York’s Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album. Brahem meets Jack DeJohnette for the first time here, but Holland and DeJohnette have been frequent musical partners over the last half-century beginning with ground-breaking work with Miles Davis – their collaborations are legendary. British pianist Django Bates also rises superbly to the challenge of Brahem’s compositions. And Anouar in turn is inspired to some of his most outgoing playing. (ECM Records) 


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Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams (Vinyl LP: ECM, 2 LPs)

Double 180g audiophile vinyl release. 


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Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams (Vinyl LP: ECM, 2 LPs)


Oregon: Oregon (CD: ECM Touchstones)Oregon: Oregon (CD: ECM Touchstones)
First ECM date for the Oregon quartet , pioneer band in the trans-cultural zone, in the original line-up with Ralph Towner, Collin Walcott, Paul McCandless and Glen Moore.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Oregon: Ecotopia (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu replaces the late Collin Walcott and a new chapter in Oregon’s music begins.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Oregon: Ecotopia (CD: ECM Touchstones)


Oregon: Family Tree (CD: Cam Jazz)Oregon: Family Tree (CD: Cam Jazz)
 


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Collin Walcott: Cloud Dance (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Collin Walcott defined a corner of improvisation all his own with his unique approach to the sitar and tabla. When the newly-formed Gateway trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette joined him for “Cloud Dance” the results were magical.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Collin Walcott: Cloud Dance (CD: ECM Touchstones)


Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos & Collin Walcott: The Codona Trilogy (CD: ECM, 3 CDs)Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos & Collin Walcott: The Codona Trilogy (CD: ECM, 3 CDs)
Pure wizardry. The art of the improvisers beyond all borders. Preaching equality for all the idioms, anticipating the gathering wave of “world music”, drawing on traditions from all the continents, Codona was like no other band. Its sound: simultaneously poetic and powerfully evocative and stamped, in every second, with character. Summoned into being by Collin Walcott in 1978, the trio provided an utterly original context for Don Cherry’s starkly melodic trumpet and for the multi-instrumentalism of all three players. This 3-CD box incorporates the albums “Codona” (recorded 1978), “Codona 2” (1980) and “Codona 3” (1982). (ECM Records) 


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Shankar: Vision (CD: ECM)
 


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Shankar: Vision (CD: ECM)


Shankar: Song For Everyone (CD: ECM Touchstones)Shankar: Song For Everyone (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Over terrifically propulsive percussion by Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, Shankar, on electric double violin, trades solos and shares thrilling unisons with Jan Garbarek. An immediately appealing East/West collaboration.

This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records) 


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Shankar: The Epidemics (Vinyl LP: ECM)
 


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Shankar: The Epidemics (Vinyl LP: ECM)


Zakir Hussain: Making Music (CD: ECM)Zakir Hussain: Making Music (CD: ECM)
 


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Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints (CD: CMP)
 


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Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints (CD: CMP)


Paquito D'Rivera featuring New York Voices & Claudio Roditi: Brazilian Dreams (CD: Telarc Jazz)Paquito D'Rivera featuring New York Voices & Claudio Roditi: Brazilian Dreams (CD: Telarc Jazz)
 


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Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble: At Home (CD: Razdaz)
 


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Avishai Cohen Trio & Ensemble: At Home (CD: Razdaz)


Avishai Cohen Trio: Gently Disturbed (CD: Razdaz)Avishai Cohen Trio: Gently Disturbed (CD: Razdaz)
 


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Avishai Cohen: Arvoles (CD: Razdaz)
The long awaited new musical statement from Avishai Cohen the Bassist and Composer delivers nine freshly executed, original compositions, and one delicately distinctive arrangement. ‚Arvoles', which means 'Trees' in Ladino (the ancient language spoken by the Sephardic people of the diaspora), showcases Cohen own unique DNA and heartbeat. Whilst being deeply rooted in trio music, 'Arvoles' delivers crafted stories enriched by an outstanding horn section, a sublime working unit, giving life and spirit. (Warner Music) 


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Avishai Cohen: Arvoles (CD: Razdaz)


Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence (CD: ECM)Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence (CD: ECM)
 


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Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver (CD: ECM)
A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest calibre. The adroit, almost telepathic interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why he is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene. “All of these people together are my dream team”, says the charismatic trumpeter of fellow players Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori and Nasheet Waits, who share his sense for daring improvisation and his feeling for structure. “I feel we’re in a perfect place with the balance. It’s open and there’s so much room for the improvisation to take the music any place we can. At the same time the composition is very specific and the vibe is very direct and thought about.” As with Into The Silence, Cross My Palm With Silver was produced by Manfred Eicher at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France. (ECM Records) 


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Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver (CD: ECM)


Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth (CD: ECM)Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth (CD: ECM)
There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen’s trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the moment, found and shaped in the course of a remarkable recording session in the South of France, Naked Truth takes the form of an extemporaneous suite. For most of its length the Israeli trumpeter painstakingly leads the way, closely shadowed by his long-time comrades – pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori and drummer Ziv Ravitz - who share an intuitive understanding, hyper alert to the music’s subtly-changing emphases. At the album’s conclusion, Cohen recites “Departure”, a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, whose themes of renunciation, acceptance and letting go seem optimally-attuned to the mood of the music. Naked Truth was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines, in September 2021, and produced by Manfred Eicher. (ECM Records) 


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Jesse Bannister: Play Out (CD: United Sound)
Highly acclaimed saxophonist Jesse Bannister brings together MOBO award winning pianist Zoe Rahman, double Mercury Prize nominated percussionist Seb Rochford and Corrine Bailey Rae bassist Kenny Higgins for an exciting and innovative exploration of jazz and Indian music. 


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Jesse Bannister: Play Out (CD: United Sound)

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