Drums
All records with drums · Solo drums only
Winter Poems
ECM debut of Israeli soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen with Tom Oren (piano), Alon Near (double bass) and Alon Benjamini (drums), eight Cohen originals. Recorded September 2023 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2818, 2025.
Za Górami
Debut album of the trio Alice Zawadzki (voice, violin), Fred Thomas (piano, vielle, drums) and Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass): Ladino, Polish, French and Latin American songs. Recorded June 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2810, 2024.
Samares
Third ECM album by the Colin Vallon Trio: Vallon (piano, electronics), Patrice Moret (double bass), Julian Sartorius (drums), nine Vallon compositions. Recorded June-July 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2809, 2024.
A Time To Remember
Elina Duni (voice) with Rob Luft (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn) and Fred Thomas (piano, drums): Albanian and Kosovan traditionals, standards and Duni/Luft originals. Recorded July 2022 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines. ECM 2781, 2023.
Our Daily Bread
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.
Wind And Sun
Sinikka Langeland (vocals, kantele, Jew's harp) sets poems by Jon Fosse with Mathias Eick (trumpet), Trygve Seim (saxophones), Mats Eilertsen (double bass) and Thomas Strønen (drums). Recorded June 2022 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Guido Gorna.
Sphere
Piano trio album by Bobo Stenson with Anders Jormin (double bass) and Jon Fält (drums): music by Nørgård, Bäck, Sibelius, Janson and Jung-Hee Woo plus two Jormin originals. Recorded April 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Dance Of The Elders
Second album by the trio of Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel (classical and electric guitar) with Scott Colley (double bass) and Brian Blade (drums): five originals plus Weill's Liebeslied and Joni Mitchell's Amelia. Recorded February 2022 in Oakland, produced by Eicher.
Eventually
First trio album by Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young, with Mats Eilertsen (double bass) and Audun Kleive (drums): nine Young originals, recorded in May 2021 at Klokkereint Studio, Gjøvik. His fourth album as a leader for ECM.
Pasado en claro
Song album by Anders Jormin (double bass), Lena Willemark (voice, violin, viola), Karin Nakagawa (25-string koto) and Jon Fält (drums), setting Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Mexican and Italian poetry. Recorded 2021 at Studio Epidemin, Gothenburg.
The Next Door
Second album by the Julia Hülsmann Quartet (Hülsmann piano, Uli Kempendorff tenor saxophone, Marc Muellbauer double bass, Heinrich Köbberling drums): originals by all four plus a Prince song. Recorded March 2022 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines.
A Short Diary
Duo album by drummer Sebastian Rochford and pianist Kit Downes, music written after the death of Rochford's father, poet Gerard Rochford, recorded February 2020 at the family home Waverley, Aberdeen. CD, ECM 2749, 2023.
Just
Fourth album by Billy Hart's quartet with Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Ethan Iverson (piano) and Ben Street (double bass), recorded December 2021 at Sound On Sound Studios, New York, mixed 2023 at La Buissonne. CD, ECM 2748, 2025.
Once Around The Room (A Tribute To Paul Motian)
Paul Motian tribute co-led by Jakob Bro (guitar) and Joe Lovano (tenor sax, tarogato) with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, Anders Christensen (basses), Joey Baron and Jorge Rossy (drums), recorded November 2021 in Copenhagen. CD, ECM 2747, 2022.
Opening
Ninth album as a leader by Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, with Steinar Raknes (double bass, electronics) and Jarle Vespestad (drums), recorded October 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. CD, ECM 2742, 2022.
Thee They Thy
Second ECM album by singer, pianist and cantor Judith Berkson, in a trio with Trevor Dunn (double bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums), recorded July 2021 at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY, produced by Manfred Eicher. CD, ECM 2741, 2026.
Isabela
Second ECM album by tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur, a five-part suite built on a self-fashioned raga, with Nitai Hershkovits (piano), Petros Klampanis (double bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums). Recorded 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Naked Truth
Improvised suite in nine parts by trumpeter Avishai Cohen with Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass) and Ziv Ravitz (drums), closing with a reading of a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky. Recorded September 2021 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Last Decade
ECM debut of pianist Benjamin Lackner, in a quartet with Mathias Eick (trumpet), Jérôme Regard (double bass) and Manu Katché (drums), playing eight Lackner originals and one by Regard. Recorded September 2021 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ruins and Remains
Suite for piano, string quartet and percussion composed in 2018 by Wolfert Brederode for the centenary of the end of World War I, played by Brederode (piano), the Matangi Quartet and Joost Lijbaart (drums, percussion). Recorded August 2021 at Sendesaal Bremen.