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Anouar Brahem - "Barzakh" 35th Anniversary

The first album by Anouar Brahem, Barzakh, was released 35 years ago. Barzakh, Anouar Brahem’s debut album, was recorded in September 1990 and released on ECM the following year. On the Manfred Eicher produced record, the Tunisian oud player is heard […]

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Artist in Focus

Mark Turner

Mark Turner's new album "Patternmaster" with his cohorts Jason Palmer, Joe Martin and Jonathan Pinson, out on 13 March, finds the saxophonist's quartet at its most sophisticated and hard-hitting. Here both boundless improvisation and cool control are driving motors behind a group that has moulded its common musical understanding over years on the road and in the studio.

Patternmaster

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Craig Taborn: Dream Archives

The trio-debut of pianist, composer and 2025 MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith has been eagerly awaited. In its review of the group’s live show from Fall 2025 the German daily Hamburger Abendblatt found nothing put praise for their performance, calling it “unpredictable, exhilarating”. The trio’s approach on Dream Archives is full of complexities, and as the title suggests, a wide musical spectrum is covered as multitudes of idioms seem to be pulled from history and reconfigured to form a previously unheard sound world full of reveries. Dancing grooves and powerful lyrical accounts also arise in otherwise densely orchestrated trio interchanges – four extensive Taborn-originals making up the foundation...

Dream Archives

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The Label

The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1800 albums spanning many idioms.

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