ECM’s new audiophile vinyl series follows up the inaugural releases (Kenny Wheeler and Nana Vasconcelos) with a second imaginatively matched pair, both albums again coming from the label’s earlier years and presented in facsimiles of the original sleeves with the [...]
Nils Winther started the SteepleChase label back in 1972 when he was a Copenhagen student. It’s still going strong, including an excellent back catalogue of intriguing recordings that were often built around U.S. guests appearing at the city’s leading jazz [...]
This very welcome LP reissue of a canonical classic of British jazz returns the title to vinyl for the first time since its release on the Tracey family’s Steam Records in 1976. Recorded on 4 March (Wiki says 14th) 1965 [...]
ECM’s new Luminessence series of audiophile vinyl releases from their esteemed back catalogue is a class act all round: thick cardboard gatefold sleeves featuring freshly commissioned liner notes accompany satisfyingly heavy platters whose sound quality is every bit as good [...]
Best-known for his work with Miles Davis on the iconic soundtrack to Louis Malle’s film noir ‘Lift to the Scaffold’ (‘Ascenseur pour l’échafaud’) released in 1958, and further collaborations with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and a host of [...]
