Catch Up

Lucy Yeghiazaryan – Lover Man {Hey Love!}
Christie Dashiell – Invitation {Journey In Black}
Somi – We’re All Falling {Single}
Rich Spaven – Bunny Bread {Light Of Day}
The James Taylor Trio – The Truth {the Jazz Seesions Vol 3 – The Truth}
The Matt Berry Trio – Everything’s Peachy Pt. 8 {the Jazz Seesions Vol 2 – Everything’s Peachy}
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Maiden Voyage (Live) {Live Oblivion Vol. 2}
Moacir Santos – Early Morning Love {Saudade}
Eileen Howard – Open Your Eyes You Can Fly {DJ Perry Louis (JazzCotech) Shiftless Shuffle Compilation}
Chick Corea – Windows {Inner Space}
Asta Hiroki – Close {Close EP}

Okvsho – Where Moment Wait
Alex Jelen, Abhin Lype – Stardust Surfer
Creature. – Memphis Grit
Creature. – Mind Running
.Multibeat – Use Your Noggin
Moses Yoofee Trio – Kraut
Ellie Harris – Hello Hi
Leon Phal – UK Rain
Horatio Luna – Malakies
Moyses Dos Santos – Encontrei Amor
Yuji Ohno 7 Lupintic Five with Friends – Theme From Lupin the Third (Seven Days Rhapsody)
Knats – Bowling Ball
David Kayode – Astrobeat
Joshua Moshe – Fig Leaves

Jimetta Rose – Somebody Else’s Idea {Day Dreamer}
James Blood Ulmer – Family Affair {CBS}
Ahmed Sirour – Brooklyn Bossa {Jazz Room}
Brian Jackson Featuring Rahsaan Patterson – Lady Day & John Coltrane {BBE}
Nils Petter Molvaer – London-Finsbury Park (John Paul Jones) {Edition}
Audrey Powne – Swollen {BBE}
Kinga Glyk – Not Real {Warner Music}
Orchestra Mambo International – Olufina {Loft Recordings}
Mazacote – A.C. Especial {Deep South}
Elsa Nilsson’s Band of Pulses – Not Said, Not Heard {Adhyâropa}

In this episode of the ECM Podcast, trumpeter Ralph Alessi talks about his quartet recording “It’s Always Now”, on which he is joined by pianist Florian Weber, bassist Bänz Oester and Gerry Hemingway on drums. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Ralph gets into the differences of being a musician in the US and Europe, talks about education in music and about the art of naming songs.

Louis Matute – Dolce Vita {O Que é O Amor?}
Jalen Baker – Dowling: Emancipation {RePaved}
Return to Forever feat. Al Di Meola – The Romantic Warrior {Romantic Warrior}
John Hollenbeck and The Hot Club Jazz Orchestra – Sinanari {Peace and Justice}
Janis Siegel – Pick Up the Pieces {The Art of Vocalese}
Seamus Blake – Funkorama {EH! The Electrifying Seamus Blake}
James Brandon Lewis – Spirit of the Living God {Omni}
Nat Birchall Quartet – Lokumbe {Live at Low Four Studio, Manchester}
Charles Lloyd – Jai Ganga {Sangam and Friends}
Al Di Meola – Land of the Midnight Sun {Land of the Midnight Sun}
Lox – Healing {The Eighth Gate}
Knats – Azure Blues {A Great Day in Newcastle}
Rodney Franklin – Endless Flight {Endless Flight}
Kris Davis – The Subtext {Lost in Geneva}
Wadada Leo Smith with Amina Claudine Myers – Reflections on Palestine {Peace Anthems}
Linda May Han Oh and Melissa Aldana – Introspection {Beneath Lifted Skies}
Linda Sikhakhane – Days Begin to Sing {Linda}
Christ-Stéphane Boizi – The Sustainer of My Faith {As the Spirit Leads}
Fathers – Pearl {Fathers}
Al Di Meola – Espiritu {Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin}

James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Line Upon Line {Omni}
New West Quartet – Come Up {Turn}
Michael Marcus Quartet – That Far is NOW! {Next Stop Down}
Tom Challenger – Sherryelardee {Vee Music}
CP Unit – Encore {Starmaker Machine}
OM – Behind the Eye {Südpol}
Tres Hongos – Dormitory Squad {More Chips}
Futuro Ancestrale – Ghostline {Elsewhen}
Ted Byrnes & Anju Singh – Transients {Eclipse}
Nu Jazz – Recombination {Un Jazz}
Pat Thomas/Olie Brice/Gary Wilcox – The Calligrapher’s Blues {The Day After}
Milton Michaeli/Asaf Shchori/Hamid Drake – For Wilbur Ware – We Travel the Space Ways {Universal Butterfly}

Leon Phal – Les Vacances {Les Vacances}
Harald Lassen – Trist Arpeggio {RIK!}
Ella Zirina, Teis Semey – Arpeggios for Two Guitars {Dark Yellow}
Tobias Preisig, Stefan Rusconi – Marie {Social Landscapes (OST)}
Victoria Kirilova – Midnight Express {Roots & Skies}
Alba Careta – Diluvi {Panical}
Yilian Canizares – Maputo {Vitamina Y}
Rolando Luna, Anny Bastita – Alfonsina y el Mar {Locuras}
Tyreek McDole – Wild Is The Wind {Wild Is The Wind}
Janos Aved, Tilo Weber, David Six – Minta {The Transcendent Tryptych}
Shalosh – Ella Plays {What We Are Made Of}

The Janet Lawson Quintet – So High {The Janet Lawson Quintet}
Jamile & Vinicius Gomes – Actual Proof {Boundless Species}
Joey Alexander – Deep Calls to Deep (feat. Jaleel Shaw) {Celestial Keeper}
Heernt – Nice. {Locked in a Basement}
James Brandon Lewis Quartet – The Sermon {Omni}
Steve Grossman – Enya {Terra Firma}
Branford Marsalis Quartet & Dianne Reeves – They Say It’s Wonderful {Dedicated To You}
Linda Sikhakhane – Days Begin To Sing (feat. Omagugu) {Linda}
Emily Kuhn – Icarus (feat. Meghan Stagl) {Feathered Things}
Yoron Israel – You’re My Alter Ego (feat. Leah Hinton) {Inspiration}
Steve Wilson – Helen’s Song {Enduring Sonance}
Kris Davis Trio – The Subtext (feat. Robert Hurst & Johnathan Blake) {Lost in Geneva}
Jamie Peet – Shoshin Mindset (feat. Joel Ross, Ben van Gelder & Pat Cleaver) [Live] {REFLEX: Daily New Beginning (Live at Bimhuis on September 26th, 2025)}
Dave Holland Freedom Call Prism – Evolution {Freedoms}
LOX – Healing (feat. Summer-Pearl) {The Eight Gates}
Donald Vega – Para Aguabella {Play It Forward}
Onward International – Samba Doo Bonnay {Foot In The Door E.P.}

Dandy Dandie – 23 septembre {Helios y Selene}
Diego Pinera 4×4 – Throught Hell {Romanian Dance}
Michael Formanek – Prequel {New Digs}
Alexander Hawkins – Hocket Fierce Peaceful {No Nation But Imagination}
Toša – Jak jsme šli {Opatrně}
Angelika Niescier – Rejoice, Disrupt, Resist {Chicago Tapes}
Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash – Point They Sword {Pluto in Aquarius}
Marty Ehrlich – Words Out Of No Words {Cartographies of Flight}
Mal Waldron & Sam Rivers – I Thought About You {Live in Mestre Venezia 1984}
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie EXTENDED – longing {Live at Moldejazz}
Gigantonium – Transe Occident Express {Sauvages Paradis “Wild Thing”}
Caroline Davis – Mars {Fallows}
Flavio Zanuttini – Dies Irae {Requiem for Democracy}
Graziano Gatti Quadri & Massimo Betti – The Nest Duo – Seizampe – storia di un’amicizia tra un ragazzo e un cane {A Whisper of Roots}
Satoko Fujii ma-do – February – Locomotive – February {Desert Ship}
Phillip Golub – afterward partisan session {Partisan Ship}
Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow – Don’t Stand a Chance, After the Boom {Electrical Field of Love}
Simon Hanes – A Series Of Waves Tremble In A Sea Of Blood {Gargantua}
Charles Tolliver Music Inc. – Earl’s World {Live at the Captain’s Cabin}
Columbia Icefield – Howard Beach {A Silence Opens}
Camila Nebbia, Chris Corsano – Sunken House {Six or Seven Ways Towards Becoming Undone}
An AdHoc Orchestra – Full Ensemble One {A Tribute to Derek Bailey}
Anna Lowenstein – Oseh Shalom; Improvisation {Through The Walls}
Nicole McCabe – Cent Cinq {Color Theory}
Rodrigo Amado’s This Is Our Language Quartet – Subterranean Night Color {Wailers}
Nabelose – Niriides {Haar}
Gigantonium – Transe Occident Express
Paul Dunmall – Narendra
Linne Talp – She Came Out of the White Fog

Horace Silver – Melancholy Mood
Wayne Shorter – El Gaucho
Miles Davis – Tempus Fugit
Jimmy Smith – Plain Talk
Reuben Wilson – Orange Peel
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Pensativa
Lou Donaldson – The Thang
Grachan Moncur III – Air Raid