Saxophone
All records with saxophone · Solo saxophone only
Sleeper
Complete concert by Keith Jarrett's European Quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen, recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, on 16 April 1979 and first released by ECM in 2012 as a double CD.
Carta de Amor
Live double album by the trio of Jan Garbarek (saxophones), Egberto Gismonti (guitars, piano) and Charlie Haden (double bass), recorded at the Amerika Haus in Munich in April 1981 and first released by ECM in 2012.
Dresden - In Concert
Live double album by the Jan Garbarek Group: Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones, selje flute), Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards), Yuri Daniel (bass) and Manu Katché (drums), recorded on 20 October 2007 at the Alter Schlachthof, Dresden.
Spirits
Keith Jarrett alone on flutes, recorders, tablas, percussion, soprano saxophone, guitar, piano and voice, overdubbed in 26 short pieces. Recorded May to July 1985 at his Cavelight Studio, New Jersey; first released by ECM in 1986.
80/81
Pat Metheny with Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker: double album recorded 26-29 May 1980 at Talent Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. 2CD.
Nude Ants
Keith Jarrett's European quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen, live at the Village Vanguard, New York, May 1979: six Jarrett compositions on 2CD, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Live
Double live album by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin (Bärtsch, Sha, Björn Meyer, Kaspar Rast, Andi Pupato), recorded 2009-2011 in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, England and Japan, with Thomy Jordi on bass on the final track. Mixed at Studios La Buissonne.
Magnetic Works 1993-2001
Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada String Quartet.
Selected Signs III - VIII
Six-CD anthology compiled by Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake for the exhibition ECM: A Cultural Archaeology (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012-13): recordings from 1961 to 2012 by Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Old and New Dreams and many others.
Paul Motian
Six-CD box of Paul Motian's first six ECM albums as leader, recorded 1972-1984 in New York and Ludwigsburg, with Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Charles Brackeen, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano and others. Old & New Masters series, 2013, notes by Ethan Iverson.
Dansere
Three early Jan Garbarek albums on 3CD: Sart (quintet with Bobo Stenson, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, recorded Oslo 1971), Witchi-Tai-To (1973) and Dansere (1975) by the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet with Palle Danielsson and Christensen. Produced by Manfred Eicher.
Green In Blue - Early Quartets
3-CD box with Arild Andersen's first three ECM albums as leader, Clouds in My Head (1975), Shimri (1977) and Green Shading into Blue (1978), with Knut Riisnæs, Jon Balke, Juhani Aaltonen, Lars Jansson and Pål Thowsen, recorded in Oslo 1975-1978.
Colours
3-CD box collecting Eberhard Weber's Colours albums Yellow Fields (1975), Silent Feet (1977) and Little Movements (1980), with Charlie Mariano, Rainer Brüninghaus, Jon Christensen and John Marshall, recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.
Rousilvo
Dine Doneff's Balkan-jazz folk opera on the abandoned village of Rousilvo (Xanthogeia) in northern Greece, mixing an ensemble, the Camea Quartet and archive voices. Recorded April 2004 at Agrotikon, Thessaloniki; neRED/1.
Remember me, my dear
Live recording from the October 2014 farewell tour of Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone) and The Hilliard Ensemble, made in the Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Stefano, Bellinzona: Komitas, Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Brumel, Pärt, Kedrov and Garbarek originals.
The Fifth Century
Gavin Bryars's The Fifth Century, a setting of Thomas Traherne for choir and saxophone quartet, and his Two Love Songs after Petrarch, sung by The Crossing under Donald Nally with the PRISM Quartet, recorded in Philadelphia in 2014 and 2015.
Concert in Athens
Live recording of Eleni Karaindrou's theatre and film music with guests Kim Kashkashian (viola) and Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), oboist Vangelis Christopoulos and the Camerata Orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, Megaron, Athens, 19 November 2010.
Officium Novum
Third album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble, centred on Armenian sacred music arranged by Komitas, with chant, Pérotin and Pärt. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold in summer 2009.
Night Sessions
The Dowland Project (John Potter, Stephen Stubbs, John Surman, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Miloš Valent) improvise on medieval poems and early music fragments. Recorded September 2001 and January 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Helena Tulve, Arianna Savall, Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert, Mihkel Peäske, NYYD Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Silesian String Quartet, Olari Elts
LijnenFirst ECM album of the Estonian composer Helena Tulve: six chamber works (1997-2004) played by the NYYD Ensemble under Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Silesian String Quartet, recorded in Tallinn between 1997 and 2006.