Chick Corea – Return To Forever
ECM 1022 602527278841 LP 180 g
Exhilarating performances from the original Return To Forever line-up – balancing the piano and bass tag-team virtuosity of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke with the Brazilian soulfulness of singer Flora Purim and percussionist Airto Moreira and Joe Farrell’s sunny sax and flute and introducing tunes that would become jazz classics –“La Fiesta”, “Crystal Silence” and “What Game Shall We Play Today”.
Pat Metheny Group
ECM 1114 602527278896 LP 180 g
Debut album by the the Pat Metheny Group whose music - with tight arrangements, youthful energy, American optimism, jazz harmony and more than a shot of rock - found a vast audience in the late 1970s. Includes “Jaco”, a salute to Pat’s friend Jaco Pastorius, and “Phase Dance”, for years a staple of Metheny’s live sets.
Pat Metheny Group – Offramp
ECM 1216 602527278933 LP 180 g
„Offramp“, the atmospheric third album of the Pat Metheny Group was to prove the most successful of their ECM discs, selling over a million copies. The seven tunes by the creative partnership of guitarist Metheny and keyboardist Lyle Mays now integrate Brazilian influences, emphasized by the percussion of Nana Vasconcelos, and bassist Steve Rodby playing both acoustic and electric instruments expands music’s range. Includes the popular titles “Are You Going With Me” and “James” (dedicated to James Taylor)
Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert
ECM 1064/65 602527278889 2LP 180 g
The epochal double-album. Keith Jarrett’s 1975 “The Köln Concert” is one of the handful of jazz records that have changed the history of the music. The best-selling solo piano recording of all time, this endlessly inventive and highly lyrical recital reveals a master improviser creating forms in the moment.
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette – Tribute
ECM 1420/21 042284713511 2LP 180 g
Keith Jarrett returns to Köln – this time with his trio - to pay tribute to the great jazz improvisers through the medium of standards, renewing songs associated with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and more.
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette – Still Live
ECM 1360/61 042283500815 2LP 180 g
Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette captured live in full creative flood in the Munich Philharmonie, stretching the standards to shape new music, as Jarrett originals segue into “You And The Night And The Music” and “Someday My Prince Will Come”.
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