Jazz & Improvisation / Trio

Tord Gustavsen Trio with Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Steinar Raknes (double bass): five Gustavsen originals, a Norwegian hymn, two Bach chorales and Nearer My God, to Thee. Recorded October 2023 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2820, 2024.

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.

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.

Bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi with his son José María Saluzzi (classical guitar) and Jacob Young (electric and steel-string guitar): originals by all three, Karin Krog's Northern Sun and two standards. Recorded April 2023 at Saluzzi Music Studio, Buenos Aires. ECM 2802, 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Piano trio album by Kit Downes (piano) with Petter Eldh (double bass) and James Maddren (drums): five pieces by Downes, five by Eldh and a Hendrix cover. Recorded May-June 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Jakob Bro's fifth ECM album as leader (2021), a trio with Arve Henriksen (trumpet, piccolo trumpet) and Jorge Rossy (drums), recorded August-September 2020 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

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.

ECM leader debut of French tenor saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave, in trio with pianist Florian Weber and bassist Patrice Moret: nine Bordenave pieces recorded in October 2019 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher.

John Scofield (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass guitar) and Bill Stewart (drums) play nine Swallow compositions on Scofield's first ECM album as leader. Recorded in one day in March 2019 at the James L. Dolan Recording Studio, NYU Steinhardt, New York.

Piano trio album by Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Sławomir Kurkiewicz (bass) and Michał Miśkiewicz (drums): three group improvisations plus Bach, Carla Bley, The Doors and an original. Recorded August 2019 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2677, 2021.

ECM leader debut of Oslo-based Japanese pianist Ayumi Tanaka, in trio with bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. Recorded June 2019 at Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2675, 2021.

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.

Trio album by Spanish vibraphonist and marimba player Jorge Rossy with Robert Landfermann (double bass) and Jeff Ballard (drums), nine Rossy originals and one Chris Cheek tune, recorded September 2020 at Jazz Campus Basel.

Trio album by Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley (double bass) and Brian Blade (drums): seven originals and two standards, recorded August 2018 at Studio Dede, Tokyo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Debut album by the trio of Thomas Strønen (drums, percussion), Ayumi Tanaka (piano) and Marthe Lea (clarinet, voice, percussion), collectively improvised apart from a Norwegian folk tune, recorded August 2018 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.

Debut album of the trio Sun of Goldfinger: David Torn (electric guitar, live looping, electronics), Tim Berne (alto saxophone) and Ches Smith (drums, electronics, tanbou), with Craig Taborn and strings on one track, recorded 2015 and 2018 in New York studios.

ECM leader debut of Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai, in trio with Yoni Zelnik (double bass) and Donald Kontomanou (drums): Ellington's Mood Indigo and seven originals, recorded February 2018 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

First recording by the trio of Michele Rabbia (drums, electronics), Gianluca Petrella (trombone, sounds) and Eivind Aarset (guitar, electronics), mostly improvised, recorded January 2018 at ArteSuono Studio, Udine, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Piano trio album by Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen with Sigurd Hole (double bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums): originals, Bach chorales and Norwegian hymns, recorded January 2018 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Live trio album by Arild Andersen (double bass, electronics), Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), recorded by ORF at the PKS Villa Rothstein, Bad Ischl, Austria, on 29 September 2016. Six Andersen compositions. ECM 2594, 2018.

Concert recording by the Marcin Wasilewski Trio (Wasilewski piano, Sławomir Kurkiewicz double bass, Michał Miśkiewicz drums), taped by VRT at Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp, on 12 August 2016; 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.

ECM debut of Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu: nine original pieces for trio with guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Markku Ounaskari, no bass. Recorded July 2017 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Piano trio album by Bobo Stenson with Anders Jormin (double bass) and Jon Fält (drums): music by Silvio Rodríguez, Bartók, Satie, Mompou, Jormin and Stenson, recorded May 2017 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

ECM debut of the Shinya Fukumori Trio: Shinya Fukumori (drums), Matthieu Bordenave (tenor saxophone), Walter Lang (piano). Fukumori originals and Japanese Shōwa-era songs, recorded March 2017 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Piano trio album by Julia Hülsmann with Marc Muellbauer (double bass) and Heinrich Köbberling (drums), with originals by all three, a Kyrgyz tune and a Radiohead cover. Recorded September 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2547, 2017.

First ECM album by Django Bates' trio Belovèd, with Petter Eldh (double bass) and Peter Bruun (drums). Recorded June 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Second ECM album by the Gary Peacock Trio, with Marc Copland (piano) and Joey Baron (drums). Recorded May 2016 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Second album by Quercus: June Tabor (voice), Iain Ballamy (tenor and soprano saxophones) and Huw Warren (piano) in British folk songs, standards, Dylan and two originals. Recorded December 2015 at Cooper Hall, Frome; produced by Warren and Ballamy.

Third ECM album by the Colin Vallon Trio: Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass), Julian Sartorius (drums). Recorded in 2016 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, engineered by Stefano Amerio and produced by Manfred Eicher.

First trio recording by Louis Sclavis (clarinets), Dominique Pifarély (violin) and Vincent Courtois (cello), with compositions by all three and collective improvisation. Recorded September 2016 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Second ECM leader album by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, in trio with Thomas Morgan (double bass) and Joey Baron (drums): six Bro pieces and the collective improvisation PM Dream. Recorded November 2015, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines; produced by Manfred Eicher.