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Patternmaster
Second ECM album by Mark Turner's pianoless quartet with Jason Palmer (trumpet), Joe Martin (double bass) and Jonathan Pinson (drums): six Turner originals, recorded April 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Spindrift
Second ECM album by pianist Benjamin Lackner, with a new quintet: Mathias Eick (trumpet), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Linda May Han Oh (double bass), Matthieu Chazarenc (drums). Recorded March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Unfolding
First duo album by clarinettist Louis Sclavis and pianist Benjamin Moussay: nine new pieces, two-thirds by Moussay, the rest by Sclavis. Recorded March 2024 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Landloper
Arild Andersen's first solo album: double bass with loops created live through effect pedals. Recorded in concert on 18 June 2020 at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, with one piece recorded at home; mixed at Rainbow Studio in 2024.
Transylvanian Dance
Pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri arrange Transylvanian songs and dances collected by Béla Bartók. Recorded live on 29 October 2022 at CJT Hall, Timișoara, for the Retracing Bartók project; produced by Steve Lake.
Ashes to Gold
A five-part suite by trumpeter Avishai Cohen, written after 7 October 2023, plus Ravel's Adagio assai and a tune by his daughter. With Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass) and Ziv Ravitz (drums). Recorded November 2023 at Studios La Buissonne.
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.
Outpost of Dreams
Duo album by Norma Winstone (voice) and Kit Downes (piano): four Downes pieces, songs by John Taylor, Carla Bley, Ralph Towner and Aidan O'Rourke, two traditionals, nine with Winstone lyrics. Recorded April 2023 at Artesuono, Udine, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2811, 2024.
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.
Touch of Time
Debut duo album by Arve Henriksen (trumpet, electronics) and Harmen Fraanje (piano): ten pieces, mostly co-written, between improvisation and written themes. Recorded January 2023 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2794, 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.
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.
At First Light
Solo classical guitar album by Ralph Towner: eight originals plus Danny Boy, Little Old Lady and Make Someone Happy. Recorded February 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
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.