Music from United States

Eight previously unreleased performances by Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Paul Motian (drums), recorded live at the Deer Head Inn, Pennsylvania, on 16 September 1992, the same night as the 1994 album At the Deer Head Inn. Produced by Bill Goodwin.

Third album by Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry: Lovano (tenor saxophone, tárogató, gongs), Marilyn Crispell (piano), Carmen Castaldi (drums, percussion), eight Lovano originals. Recorded May 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2777, 2023.

Solo piano improvisations by Keith Jarrett, a suite in thirteen parts recorded live on 6 July 2016 at the Auditorium of the Opéra National de Bordeaux during his last European tour. Recorded by Martin Pearson, produced by Keith Jarrett.

Piano trio album by Vijay Iyer with Linda May Han Oh (double bass) and Tyshawn Sorey (drums): eight Iyer originals plus Cole Porter and Geri Allen. Recorded December 2019 at Oktaven Audio Studio, Mount Vernon, New York; produced by Iyer and Manfred Eicher.

Second album by Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry, with Marilyn Crispell (piano) and Carmen Castaldi (drums), Lovano on tenor and soprano saxophones, tarogato and gongs: eight Lovano pieces recorded in November 2019 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.

Trio album by pianist Carla Bley with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bass guitarist Steve Swallow: three new Bley suites recorded May 2019 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

First ECM album as leader by saxophonist Joe Lovano, eleven of his pieces for a trio with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi. Recorded March 2018 at Sear Sound, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Trio album by drummer Andrew Cyrille with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Bill Frisell, five pieces by all three. Recorded July 2017 at Reservoir Studios, New York; produced by Sun Chung.

This historic recording features the first-ever release of the two earliest surviving recordings of David Tudor's seminal work, Rainforest. Sandwiched in between are six keyboard works by Gordon Mumma in recordings featuring the composer and his close collaborator, Tudor. Together, these works constitute a fascinating and historically important document of the 1960s avant-garde in America. In early 1968, Merce Cunningham created a new dance whose apparent impetus was Colin Turnbull's The Fore…

This historic release of a simultaneous performance by David Tudor and John Cage of Rainforest II and Mureau, recorded live by Radio Bremen on May 5, 1972, preserves the only surviving performance of the second of Tudor’s "Rainforest" series. In addition, it documents one of the precious few recorded collaborations between these two visionaries. In 1970 Cage composed the piece called Mureau, in which phrases from Thoreau’s journals (in particular, passages which touch on the subject of music) ar…

Douvle CD set with recordings by the legendary 20th century avantgarde pianist performing compositions by (and with) John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff.

1995 release. Neural Synthesis Nos. 6-9 combines the art of music, the engineering of electronics, and the inspiration of biology. In it, David Tudor orchestrates electronic sound in ways analogous to our biological bodies' orchestration of consciousness. The performance originates from a neural-network synthesizer conceived and built especially for Tudor. He surrounds this synthesizer with his own unique collection of electronic devices, and in the recording on this CD made for headphone playba…

Originally released on Lovely Music as Pulsers / Untitled in 1984. This re-release includes an additional piece from David Tudor, Phonemes. Pulsers explores the world of rhythms created electronically by analog, rather than digital, circuitry. With analog circuitry, the time-base common to the rhythms can be varied in many different ways by a performer, and can eventually become unstable. Untitled is a part of a series of works composed in the 1970s that were developed through experiments in gen…

This CD of early works by David Tudor, available also as the CD insert to Volume 14 of Leonardo Music Journal, presents three previously unreleased works. 'Anima Pepsi' (1970), which combines sounds of animals, insects, and other like sounds with electronic processing, was composed for the EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology) pavilion at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, in 1970. 'Toneburst' (1975), a classic, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is based on pure electronic fee…

"Two first recordings of Morton Feldman's music in themselves make this CD a notable event. And then, David Felder's music puts it over the line. The music bridges two generations and two distinct personalities. Feldman, with John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff, was a seminal member of the New York School in the 1950s, and his work is known for the beauty and delicacy of its orchestral colors, its 'painterly' surface, its static and quiet structure, its contemplative charact…

Carla Bley's trio with Andy Sheppard (saxophones) and Steve Swallow (bass guitar) plays new Bley compositions, including the three-part title suite. Recorded November 2015 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Duo album by Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics) and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), centred on a seven-part suite for the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi. Recorded 17-19 October 2015 at Avatar Studios, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Live reunion of AACM associates Jack DeJohnette, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill, with Larry Gray, recorded 29 August 2013 at the Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, during the 35th Chicago Jazz Festival.

Six pieces by Crawl Unit, the experimental noise project of Joe Colley, composed and constructed in Sacramento in 1998 and 1999. Crippled Intellect Productions, 1999.

Duo album by bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Marilyn Crispell: compositions by each, three free improvisations and a solo apiece, recorded January-February 2011 at Nevessa Production, Saugerties, NY, and self-produced. ECM 2292, 2013.