John Abercrombie
Gateway (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. CD from the "Touchstones" Series. With "daring and visionary spirit", to quote a Downbeat review from the year of this album's release, master improvisers John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jan/1975 ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
Jack DeJohnette (Drums, Piano, Organ) with John Abercrombie (guitars)
Pictures [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
John Abercrombie
Timeless [ ECM Records / CD - released 7/Oct/2016 ] John Abercrombie's ECM debut Timeless (recorded 1974) has proven to be exactly that. This fiery session with Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer still sounds as fresh as the year it was released. "Timeless comes as a major surprise in terms of its depth,... |
John Abercrombie
Timeless (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] John Abercrombie's ECM debut Timeless (recorded 1974) has proven to be exactly that. This fiery session with Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer still sounds as fresh as the year it was released. "Timeless comes as a major surprise in terms of its depth,... |
John Abercrombie
Wait Till You See Her [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Sep/2009 ] |
John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette
Gateway 2 [ ECM / CD - released 21/Dec/1995 ] |
John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine
John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Recorded live at Boston's Nightstage club in 1988 this album found John Abercrombie both pushing sonic boundaries on guitar synthesizer and, on regular jazz guitar, deepening his relationship to the world of standards. In this trio he had exceptional... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
39 Steps [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2014 ] John Abercrombie's revised quartet provides Marc Copland with his first appearance on ECM. Yet guitarist and pianist are old allies, with an association stretching back forty years. In the early 1970s both were members of Chico Hamilton's quartet,... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
Up and Coming [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] Guitarist John Abercrombie - who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 - returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group's... |
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner
Sargasso Sea [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in May 1976, 'Sargasso Sea' is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach, George Mraz, Peter Donald
The First Quartet [ ECM / 3 CD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] This 3-CD set with recordings from 1978 to 1980, issued in ECM's acclaimed Old & New Masters series, returns some historically-important material to the catalogue, namely the albums Arcade, Abercrombie Quartet and M. The quartet with Richie Beirach,... |
John Abercrombie (guitar) with Dan Wall (Hammond B3) & Adam Nussbaum (drums)
Tactics [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Recorded July 1996 |
John Abercrombie
Animato [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded October 1989. John Abercrombie's guitar is framed and supported by composer Vince Mendoza's quasi-orchestral use of synthesizers. Jon Christensen's drums add acoustic commentary. |
John Abercrombie
Night [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Night reconvenes the guitar/keyboards/drums trio that made Abercrombie's classic Timeless, and adds Mike Brecker on tenor sax for extra emphasis at strategic moments on an album described by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as "surprisingly funky". All... |
John Abercrombie
Rarum Volume 14 :-Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. "I decided to choose from my own bands over the years," guitarist Abercrombie says, "as well as ongoing... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
The Third Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 2/Apr/2007 ] |
John Abercrombie Quartet
Up and Coming (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Guitarist John Abercrombie - who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 - returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group's... |
John Abercrombie Quartet
Within a Song [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2012 ] "Within A Song" celebrates the spirit of discovery that illuminated the jazz of the 1960s, as John Abercrombie declares his musical loyalties in a quartet album that pays tribute to a range of early influences including Miles Davis, John Coltrane,... |