Reviews
Vijay Iyer Trio: Uneasy
Vijay Iyer | Tyshawn Sorey | Linda May Han Oh
New York pianist-composer Vijay Iyer has led many kinds of bands in an eventful career but the trio has been...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Nik Bärtsch: Entendre
The closer ECM Records' founder Manfred Eicher pays attention to a particular session, the more it makes one want to...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo
Arve Henriksen | Jakob Bro | Jorge Rossy
This album, composed by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, is an antithesis to fidget culture. It resets listening, and exhumes a...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Shai Maestro: Human Racing: Human
Philip Dizack | Ofri Nehemya | Shai Maestro | Jorge Roeder
Witnessing a performance by Israeli composer/bassist Avishai Cohen at London's Union Chapel in 2011 left abiding memories – not just...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry: Garden of Expression
Carmen Castaidi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell
This is Joe Lovano's second album as a leader for ECM after leaving Blue Note records in 2014, having recorded...
Reviewed in issue February/2021
Dino Saluzzi: Albores
The great Argentinean composer and bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi has been releasing on ECM since 1982, latterly framing his fluid,...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Anja Lechner/François Couturier: Lontano
Anja Lechner | François Couturier
‘There is no old or new music,’ says German cellist Anja Lechner, best known for her US classical chart-topping album...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Elina Duni/Rob Luft: Lost Ships
On Lost Ships, guitarist Rob Luft makes his ECM debut and vocalist Elina Duni presents a new ensemble – and...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Matthieu Bordenave: La Traversée
Patrice Moret | Florian Weber | Matthieu Bordenave
French tenor saxophonist Bordenave delves deep into a key chapter of jazz history that has a particular relevance to ECM:...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy
Terje Rypdal | Stale Storløkken | Pal Thowsen | Endre Hareide Hallre
The very absence of Rypdal from a recording studio for nearly two decades only adds to the mythology of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
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