In December 2025, ECM and Qobuz partnered on a “musical advent calendar,” releasing one album per day in Hi-Res 24-bit audio. Several Keith Jarrett albums were included: Ruta and Daitya, Luminessence, In the Light, and the first-ever high resolution release of Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne.
A Qobuz playlist features one track from each album, with the complete albums available for purchase.
Thanks to Dan for the information.
ECM will release At The Deer Head Inn – The Complete Recordings, a 4-LP box set, on August 22, 2025.
“The music has the dash and the unabashed lyricism of Keith Jarrett’s best work” wrote Stereophile in a rave-review of the first selection from the intimate Deer Head Inn live recording, capturing Jarrett’s spontaneous and in retrospect historic return to the Pennsylvanian venue of his early years, alongside Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. The second release – titled The Old Country and released 30 years after the first volume in 2024 – was met with equal acclaim – The Guardian’s John Fordham called it “song-based jazz-imagining at its best”. Here both albums are combined and released on vinyl for the very first time, spread across four LPs in two tip-on gatefold jackets and framed by a deluxe slipcase: The Complete Recordings. There won’t be a second print-run of this box-set, limiting it strictly to this edition. Keith Jarrett: “I think you can hear on this tape what jazz is all about”.
Thanks Mikael for the information.
ECM will release New Vienna, a recording of the July 9, 2016 solo concert at Vienna’s Musikverein, on CD and vinyl. This is another recording from Keith’s 2016 tour, joining the three concerts ECM has already released from that year (Budapest Concert, Bordeaux Concert, and Munich 2016).
Thanks Michel, Matthias, and Daniel for letting me know about this release.
Pianist Alexi Lima has released a performance of Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, available now on all major streaming platforms (YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Qobuz, etc.). Recorded live at Saint Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, France, this release marks the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 performance.
Thanks Alexi for the information.
From Blue Note Records:
“Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in the music for more than four decades, is set to make his Blue Note Records debut with the March 28 release of Belonging, a full album interpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 ECM album of the same name which introduced the pianist’s European Quartet. Belonging is Marsalis’ first new release since 2019 with his acclaimed longstanding quartet featuring pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner. The lead track “Spiral Dance” is available to stream or download now.”
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