Although “Blood Sweat Drum + Bass” may perhaps serve as an unusual name for a big band, it does demonstrate the inspired ...

Making his debut for the ECM label, soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen brings a new and fresh style on “Winer Poems”, offering ...

A collection of emotionally driven instrumental songs where melody takes centre stage, saxophonist and composer Matt ...

Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick’s catalogue belongs among the broadest in ECM’s 21st-century roster, with many exemplary ...

Hailed by Herbie Hancock as showing “great promise as a new voice in the further development of jazz in the future”, ...

In one of the mostly aptly titled compilations released in recent years, We Want Sounds have unveiled ‘Tokyo Bliss’ which, as they themselves describe, features a ten-track compilation of “Japanese ...

There’s something particularly intimidating when assessing the scope of Nik Bärtsch’s musical output. The Zürich-based ...

Les cigales’ marks the latest release from the imagination of The Offline which capped off an incredibly productive 2024 for ...

Jim Hart is a British vibraphonist and composer who works in contemporary jazz and alternative music. In 2009, he formed the ...

Julia Hülsmann quartet recordings just seem to go from strength to strength. Her previous two ECM releases “The Next Door” (2022), and “Not Far From Here” (2020), provided the listener with some ...

Originally released in 1981, Rainer Brüninghaus’ debut as band-leader for ECM, and now reissued as part of the label’s ongoing Luminessence audiophile series, “Freigeweht” serves to remind us what a ...