Piano
All records with piano · Solo piano only
Imaginary Cities
First album by Chris Potter's eleven-piece Underground Orchestra (reeds, guitar, piano, vibes, two basses, drums, strings), with Craig Taborn, Adam Rogers, Steve Nelson and Mark Feldman. Recorded December 2013 at Avatar Studios, New York; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Mbókó
ECM leader debut of Cuban pianist David Virelles: ten pieces drawing on Abakuá ritual music, with Román Díaz (biankoméko, voice), Marcus Gilmore (drums) and bassists Thomas Morgan and Robert Hurst. Recorded December 2013, Avatar Studios, New York; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Miniatures
First ECM solo album by Italian pianist Glauco Venier, music for piano and percussion: his own pieces and adaptations of Gurdjieff, Komitas, Dufay and Alessandra Franco, with gongs, bells and sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia and Giorgio Celiberti. Recorded December 2013, Lugano.
Birdwatching
Third ECM album by Israeli pianist Anat Fort, with her trio of Gary Wang (double bass) and Roland Schneider (drums) and guest Gianluigi Trovesi on alto clarinet. Recorded November 2013 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Play Blue - Oslo Concert
Solo piano concert by Paul Bley, four of his own compositions and Sonny Rollins's Pent-Up House as encore. Recorded live in August 2008 at Kulturkirken Jakob during the Oslo Jazz Festival by Jan Erik Kongshaug; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Mutations
Vijay Iyer's first ECM album as leader: the suite Mutations I-X for string quartet (Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wiancko, Kyle Armbrust, Kivie Cahn-Lipman), piano and electronics, framed by solo pieces. Recorded September 2013 at Avatar Studios, New York.
Forever Young
Third ECM album by guitarist Jacob Young, all his own compositions, with saxophonist Trygve Seim and the Marcin Wasilewski Trio (Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz). Recorded August 2013 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Babylon-Suite
Eleven-part suite by the Swiss duo Vera Kappeler (piano, harmonium, toy piano, voice) and Peter Conradin Zumthor (drums, toy piano, voice), commissioned for the Origen Festival Cultural after the Book of Daniel. Recorded June 2013 at the RSI Auditorio, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Joy In Spite Of Everything
Nine new compositions by Italian pianist Stefano Bollani for a quintet with Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Bill Frisell (guitar), Jesper Bodilsen (double bass) and Morten Lund (drums). Recorded June 2013 at Avatar Studios, New York; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Extended Circle
Sixth ECM album by Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, the third by his quartet with Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone), Mats Eilertsen (double bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums). Recorded June 2013 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Il Pergolese
Songs and improvisations on Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and opera arias, sung in Neapolitan by Maria Pia De Vito with François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello) and Michele Rabbia (percussion, electronics). Recorded December 2012 in Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Shadow Man
Second ECM album by Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Berne (alto sax), Oscar Noriega (clarinets), Matt Mitchell (piano) and Ches Smith (drums, vibraphone). Recorded January 2013 at the Clubhouse, New York, produced by Berne and David Torn.
Lua ya
Korean children's songs, lullabies and improvised pieces by singer Yeahwon Shin with pianist Aaron Parks and accordionist Rob Curto, recorded May 2012 at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, produced by Sun Chung. Shin's ECM debut.
Sunrise - A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch
Ketil Bjørnstad's cantata on prose by Edvard Munch, sung in Norwegian by Kari Bremnes and the Oslo Chamber Choir under Egil Fossum, with Bjørnstad on piano, Aage Kvalbein on cello, saxophone, bass and percussion. Recorded April 2012 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.
One Is The Other
Second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet, with Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Ethan Iverson (piano) and Ben Street (double bass), playing pieces by Hart, Turner and Iverson plus one standard. Recorded April-May 2013 at Avatar Studios, New York.
Dance Without Answer
Third ECM album by Norma Winstone (voice), Glauco Venier (piano) and Klaus Gesing (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone): originals plus songs by Nick Drake, Fred Neil, Tom Waits and others. Recorded December 2012 at the RSI Auditorio, Lugano.
Chants
First album by the Craig Taborn Trio, with Thomas Morgan on double bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, playing nine Taborn compositions. Recorded in June 2012 at Avatar Studios, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher.
The Gift
Third ECM album by Susanne Abbuehl: settings of Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Sara Teasdale, Wallace Stevens and her own lyrics, with Wolfert Brederode, Matthieu Michel and Olavi Louhivuori. Recorded in summer 2012 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines.
Baida
Ralph Alessi's first ECM album as a leader: ten original compositions plus a reprise, played with Jason Moran, Drew Gress and Nasheet Waits. Recorded in October 2012 at Avatar Studios, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Transylvanian Concert
Live duo recording by Lucian Ban (piano) and Mat Maneri (viola): pieces by Ban and Maneri, a joint improvisation and the spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Recorded 5 June 2011 at the Culture Palace, Târgu Mureș, Transylvania.