This one's not for me. By the end of the album, I was wondering to myself if my personal "ECM season" had passed and I shoul...

Back in January 2001, saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Billy Higgins decided they’d had enough of studios, producers, and anything re...

It's difficult to read with the small font, but printed underneath the picture of the empty soccer net is "The kicker suddenly sta...

Note: this release was originally purchased as a LP, later replaced by the original CD release (West Germany, 1985 ). This album marks t...

Note: the CD I listened to was 1987 reissue. "Return To Forever" became the name Chick Corea gave to a series of three differe...

When you pick up used CDs based solely on the record label, you're bound to win some, lose some. This jazzy world fusion album on the ...

I paid way too much for this CD, but I've never seen it (or any Surman disc) in a used bin, so I threw caution to the wind along with ...

When the world lost Carla Bley in October 2023, I dealt with my grief by finally hunting down a copy of this CD, which had been on my wish...

I've been mesmerized by this haunting album ever since I picked it up. I was familiar with Cohen only by name from reading it in DownBe...

I picked up this used disc at the local Half Price Books simply because it was on the ECM label. I also recognized several names on the co...

The first disc released in ECM's New Series: CashBox , January 26, 1985, p. 9 Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer who created a type...

I wish I could remember where I got the recommendation for this CD so that I could thank them or give them proper credit because this thin...

In which Metheny plays all the parts (electric 6 and 12 string guitars, acoustic guitar, 15 string harp guitar , electric bass), overdubbe...

This album, Burton's last as a leader on the ECM label, finds Burton and long-time collaborator Steve Swallow raiding the halls of Bos...

German import Man, is this album ever frustrating. Still, I can't help but like it. It's as if Bley challenged herself to write ...

In which Metheny leaves his fusion group for a bit to record some more staright-ahead bebop/free jazz with two of Ornette Coleman's si...

German import It's difficult for me to pass up an ECM CD in the used bin, particularly when it is marked down to $1 as this particul...

EU Import Humorously derivative and cleverly melodic with orchestrations and instrumentations all her own, there's no mistaking Carl...

Note: this release was originally given to me as a LP, later replaced by a CD. In December 1984, my then-girlfriend gave me this Metheny...