English music journalist, producer, and liner notes author, born 1951 in Chelmsford, Essex.
ECM Records historian and collaborator, he now works at the label's office near Munich.
ALBA
Lucian Ban / Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Dance
2024, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity*
Elastic Wave
2022, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Michel Benita
Looking At Sounds
2020, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Maciej Obara Quartet
Three Crowns
2019, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago And Associated Ensembles
2018, Box, Comp, Ltd, Num + 21xCD, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Roscoe Mitchell
Bells For The South Side
2017, 2x CD, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz
Kenny Wheeler
Songs For Quintet
2015, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Robin Williamson
Trusting In The Rising Light
2014, ,
, Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz/Folk
Lucian Ban / Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Concert
2013, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Různí
Selected Signs III – VIII
2013, 6xCD + Box, Comp, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Folk/Nordic/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Baroque/Contemporary/Early/Medieval/Modern/Renaissance/Soundtrack
Judith Berkson
Oylam
2010, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory
Far Side
2010, ,
, Free Jazz
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Moment's Energy
2009, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Experimental/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble
Boustrophedon
2008, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Roscoe Mitchell
Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
2007, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Robin Williamson
The Iron Stone
2006, CD, ,
, Free Improvisation/Folk
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour
2005, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Různí
ECM Una Antología Vol. 2
2005, CD, Comp, ECM Records, Nuevos Medios, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Fusion
Joe Maneri / Barre Phillips / Mat Maneri
Angles Of Repose
2004, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
John Surman
Selected Recordings
2004, CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Avantgarde
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Memory / Vision
2003, CD, ,
, Free Improvisation/Experimental
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
Invisible Nature
2002
Robin Williamson
Skirting The River Road
2002, CD, ,
, Folk/Contemporary Jazz
Mat Maneri
Trinity
2001, CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips
Sankt Gerold Variations
2000, ,
, Free Jazz
Robin Williamson
The Seed-At-Zero
2000, CD, ,
, Folk
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Drawn Inward
1999, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Philipp Wachsmann / Paul Lytton
Some Other Season
1999, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Improvisation/Experimental
Joe Maneri / Barre Phillips / Mat Maneri
Tales Of Rohnlief
1999
Joe Maneri / Mat Maneri
Blessed
1998, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Toward The Margins
1997, ,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Různí
Selected Signs, I
1997
Joe Maneri Quartet
In Full Cry
1997
Různí
Jazz Satellites Volume 1: Electrification
1996, 2xCD, Comp, Virgin, 
,
, Free Jazz/Leftfield/Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Experimental
Joe Maneri / Joe Morris / Mat Maneri
Three Men Walking
1996, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Skies Of Europe
1995
Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips
Time Will Tell
1995
NRG Ensemble
This Is My House
1995
NRG Ensemble
"Calling All Mothers"
1994, CD, Album, Quinnah Records, 
,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Trevor Watts Moiré Music Drum Orchestra
A Wider Embrace
1994
Krakatau
Matinale
1994
John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project
1993, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Hal Russell NRG Ensemble*
The Hal Russell Story
1993, CD, ,
, Free Jazz
Wadada Leo Smith
Kulture Jazz
1993, CD, ,
, Free Jazz
Krakatau
Volition
1992, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Hal Russell
Hal's Bells
1992
Hal Russell NRG Ensemble*
The Finnish/Swiss Tour
1991
Tom van der Geld & Children At Play
Out Patients
1980, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Elton Dean Quintet
Boundaries
1980
TOK
Paradox
1980, ,
, Free Jazz/Modal
AMM III*
It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo, Colorado
1980, ,
, Free Jazz/Modern Classical/Noise/Experimental
Globe Unity*
Compositions
1980
Barry Guy, Howard Riley, John Stevens (2), Trevor Watts
Endgame
1979, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Jazzensemble Des Hessischen Rundfunks
Atmospheric Conditions Permitting
1995, 2xCD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
KOMPILACE +
Nexus
Nexus Plays Dolphy
2024, CD, Album, Red Record, 
,
, Free Jazz/Post Bop
Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence
2024, Vinyl,
Modern Classical/Free Improvisation
John Taylor (2), Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Azimuth
Azimuth
2024, Vinyl Gatefold, 
,
, Ambient/Contemporary Jazz/Modal
Old And New Dreams
Old And New Dreams
2023
Naná Vasconcelos
Saudades
2023
The Gurdjieff Ensemble*, Levon Eskenian
Zartir = Զարթիր
2023
Wolfert Brederode
Ruins And Remains
2022, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Barre Phillips / György Kurtág jr.
Face À Face
2022, ,
, Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz/Experimental
Gong
Live À Longlaville 27/10/1974
2021
Gong
Live At The Gong Family Unconventional Gathering, The Melkweg, Amsterdam
2021
Lucian Ban, John Surman, Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Folk Songs (The Béla Bartók Field Recordings)
2020, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Oded Tzur
Here Be Dragons
2020, Vinyl, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble
Remember Me, My Dear
2019, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ,
, Medieval/Modern/Contemporary/Contemporary Jazz
Kit Downes
Dreamlife Of Debris
2019
Mal Waldron Trio
Free At Last (Extended Edition)
2019
John Surman
Invisible Threads
2018, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records
Kit Downes
Obsidian
2018, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records
Barre Phillips
End To End
2018
Trygve Seim
Rumi Songs
2016
Soft Machine
Live In The 70s
2015, 4xCD, Comp, Ltd, Voiceprint, Voiceprint
Anthony de Mare
Liaisons – Re-Imagining Sondheim From The Piano
2015, 3x CD, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
Michael Mantler
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update
2014
Anja Lechner / François Couturier, Komitas, Gurdjieff*, Mompou*
Moderato Cantabile
2014
Colin Vallon Trio
Rruga
2011
Paolo Fresu / A Filetta Corsican Voices* / Daniele di Bonaventura
Mistico Mediterraneo
2011
Radar Favourites
Radar Favourites
2010, CD, Album, RM, Reel Recordings
Stefano Battaglia / Michele Rabbia
Pastorale
2010, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records
Arild Andersen
Green In Blue - Early Quartets
2010, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Bo, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa
2010
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972–79
2009, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + 2xCD, Album, RE + , ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Elton Dean's Ninesense
Happy Daze + Oh! For The Edge
2009, CD, Comp, Ogun, ,
, Free Jazz
Daevid Allen's University Of Errors
Daevid Allen's University Of Errors Plays The Soft Machine
2008, DVD-V, NTSC, Voiceprint, ,
, Space Rock/Psychedelic Rock
Codona
The Codona Trilogy
2008, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Bo, ECM Records, ECM Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Kontrast
Volume I & II
2008, ,
, Krautrock/Fusion/Prog Rock
Soft Machine
Drop
2008, ,
, Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz
Norma Winstone, Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing
Distances
2008, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians
Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) - Volume Two
2007, 2xCD, Album, Black Saint
Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner
Ojos Negros
2007, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Tango
Sly And The Family Stone*
The Collection
2007, 7x CD, DVD, Box Set, ,
, Funk
Die Like A Dog*
The Complete FMP Recordings
2007
Peter Brötzmann / Bill Laswell
Low Life / Last Exit
2007, CD, ,
, Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Free Jazz
Gianluigi Trovesi / Umberto Petrin / Fulvio Maras
Vaghissimo Ritratto
2007
Charles Lloyd
Sangam
2006
Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians
Peace Warriors - Volume One
2005, CD, Album, Black Saint
Michael Galasso
High Lines
2005
Louis Moholo-Moholo Septet / Louis Moholo-Moholo Octet*
Bra Louis - Bra Tebs / Spirits Rejoice!
2005
John Stevens (2) / Trevor Watts / Barry Guy
Mining The Seam - The Rest Of The Spotlite Sessions
2004, CD, Album, Hi 4 Head Records
Gurdjieff* / Tsabropoulos* - Anja Lechner, Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Chants, Hymns And Dances
2004
Brötzmann*
14 Love Poems Plus 10 More
2004, CD, ,
, Free Jazz
William Parker With Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter & Alan Silva
Fractured Dimensions
2003, CD, Album, FMP, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
John Surman
Free And Equal
2003
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Exodus
2003
Kim Kashkashian, Robyn Schulkowsky
Hayren / Music Of Komitas And Tigran Mansurian
2003
Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers (2), Philip Gibbs
The State Of Moksha
2002, CDr, Album, Ltd, DUNS
The Nexus Orchestra 2001*
Seize The Time!
2002, 2xCD, Album, Splasc(H) Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Paul Dunmall With John Edwards With John Butcher
Hit And Run
2001, CD, Album, FMP, ,
, Free Improvisation
Hartmut Geerken & The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Zero Sun No Point (Dedicated To Mynona & Sun Ra)
2001, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records, ,
, Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Borah Bergman With Conny Bauer*, Mat Maneri
The River Of Sounds
2001, CD, Album, Boxholder Records
Bruno Ganz - T. S. Eliot, Giorgos Seferis*
Wenn Wasser Wäre
2000, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ,
, Poetry
Evan Parker • Cecil Taylor • Barry Guy • Tony Oxley
Nailed
2000, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Eddie Prévost & Veryan Weston
Concert, v.
1999, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
, Free Improvisation
Renato Geremia, Michel Godard, Tiziano Tononi : The Multiphonics Tuba Trio
Tre Cose
1999, CD, Album, Splasc(H) Records
Evan Parker
Monoceros
1999
Die Like A Dog Quartet
Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 2
1999, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Nexus
We Still Have Visions
1998, 2xCD, Album, Splasc(H) Records, Splasc(H) Records
Die Like A Dog Quartet
Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 1
1998, CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Dino Saluzzi, Rosamunde Quartett
Kultrum
1998
Tomasz Stanko Septet
Litania – Music Of Krzysztof Komeda
1997, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Ruf Der Heimat
Machine Kaput
1996, CD, Album, Konnex Records, ,
, Free Jazz
Simultanquartett
Speech
1996, CD, Album, For 4 Ears, 
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Crystallisatio
1996, ,
, Contemporary
Raoul Björkenheim & Krakatau
Ritual
1996
Stefano Battaglia, Paolino Dalla Porta, Tony Oxley
Sulphur
1995, CD, Album, Splasc(h) Records
Isotope
Isotope / Illusion
1995, CD, Comp, See For Miles Records Ltd.
Robyn Schulkowsky / Nils Petter Molvær
Hastening Westward
1995, CD, ,
, Abstract/Experimental/Contemporary Jazz/Ambient
Evan Parker • Barry Guy*
Obliquities
1995, ,
, Free Improvisation
Material
Live From Soundscape
1994, CD, Album, DIW, 
,
, Noise/Free Improvisation/Experimental
Embryo
Ibn Battuta
1994, CD, Album, Schneeball, Indigo (2), ,
, Fusion
Mark Nauseef & Miroslav Tadić
The Snake Music
1994, CD, Album, CMP Records, ,
, Jazz-Rock
Daniele Cavallanti Quartet With Dewey Redman
Times For Peace
1994, CD, Album, Splasc(H) Records, Splasc(H) Records, Splasc(H) Records
Nexus
Free Spirits
1994, CD, Album, RM, Splasc(H) Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Red Sun (6) / SamulNori
Then Comes The White Tiger
1994, CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Peter Brötzmann • Fred Hopkins • Rashied Ali
Songlines
1994, CD, ,
, Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Azimuth
Azimuth / The Touchstone / Départ
1994, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Steve Swallow
Home (Music By Steve Swallow To Poems By Robert Creeley)
1994
The Peter Brötzmann Tentet
The März Combo Live In Wuppertal
1993, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley / John Surman
In The Evenings Out There
1993
Ketil Bjørnstad
Water Stories
1993, CD PMDC Germany, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Terje Rypdal
Q.E.D.
1993
Heinz Reber
Mnaomai, Mnomai
1992, CD, Album, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ,
, Contemporary
Jan Garbarek • Arild Andersen • Edward Vesala
Triptykon
1992, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Jimmy Giuffre 3*
1961
1992
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Live In Noci And Rive De Gier
1992, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Barre Phillips
Mountainscapes
1992
Barre Phillips
Aquarian Rain (Music For Bass, Percussion And Tape)
1992, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Marilyn Crispell & Irène Schweizer*
Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments
1991, CD, Album, FMP, ,
, Free Improvisation
Rabih Abou-Khalil
Al-Jadida
1991, CD Digipak, ,
, Fusion
Sonny Sharrock + Nicky Skopelitis
Faith Moves
1991, CD, ,
, Lounge/Free Improvisation
Barry Guy & Barre Phillips
Arcus
1991, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Eleni Karaindrou
Music For Films
1991
Deane* • Hirsch* • Hwang* • Koch* • Lovens* • Morris* • Reichel* • Schütz* : X-Communication
X-Communication
1991
Dmitri Shostakovich • Paul Chihara • Linda Bouchard - Kim Kashkashian • Robert Levin • Robyn Schulkowsky
Linda Bouchard • Paul Chihara • Dmitri Shostakovich
1991, CD, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
Jonas Hellborg
The Word
1991, ,
, Jazz-Rock/Fusion
AMM III*
It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo, Colorado
1991, ,
, Free Jazz/Noise/Experimental/Free Improvisation
Brötzmann Solo*
No Nothing
1991, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Evan Parker
Process And Reality
1991, ,
, Free Improvisation
Anouar Brahem
Barzakh
1991
Ginger Baker
The Album
1991, CD, ,
, Classic Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Afrobeat/Fusion
Gavin Bryars
After The Requiem
1991, ,
, Modern Classical/Post-Modern/Minimal/Contemporary
Last Exit
Best Of Live
1990, CD, Comp, Enemy Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Free Improvisation/Jazz-Rock
Last Exit
Köln
1990
Kenny Wheeler Quintet
The Widow In The Window
1990
Cecil Taylor Unit*
Dark To Themselves
1990
Misha Mengelberg
Impromptus
1990, ,
, Free Improvisation
Krakatau
Alive
1990
Kenny Wheeler
Music For Large & Small Ensembles
1990, 2x Vinyl, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Edward Vesala
Ode To The Death Of Jazz
1990, Vinyl, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
The Peter Brötzmann Octet*
Machine Gun
1990, CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Conducted By Alexander von Schlippenbach
Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
1990, CD, ,
, Big Band/Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Bundesjazzorchester* Unter Der Leitung Von Peter Herbolzheimer
Hifi Visionen Jazz-CD 1 (Reference Recording)
1989, CD, Album, Hifi Vision, ,
, Big Band
John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson (2), Peter Erskine
John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine
1989
Cecil Taylor & Derek Bailey
Pleistozaen Mit Wasser
1989
Keith Tippett
Mujician III (August Air)
1989
Terje Rypdal
The Singles Collection
1989
Cecil Taylor European Orchestra
Alms / Tiergarten (Spree)
1989, 2x CD, ,
, Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
David Sylvian
Weatherbox
1989, ,
, Art Rock/Experimental/Ambient
Cecil Taylor & Louis Moholo
Remembrance
1989, CD, ,
, Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Ginger Baker, Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brötzmann, Nicky Skopelitis, Jan Kazda
No Material
1989, ,
, Free Jazz
Last Exit
Iron Path
1988, ,
, Free Jazz/Grindcore
Tamia (2) - Pierre Favre
De La Nuit... Le Jour
1988
Edward Vesala
Lumi
1987, Vinyl, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Kontrast
Kontrast
1986, LP, Album, Remi Records
Paul Bley
Fragments
1986
Různí
Music With 58 Musicians, Volume One
1980, 2x Vinyl, ,
, Free Jazz/Easy Listening/Contemporary Jazz/Avantgarde
Karl Berger & Ingrid Berger
Changing The Time
1978, 2xLP, Album, Horo Records
Harry Miller
In Conference
1978, LP, Album, Ogun, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Louis Moholo Octet
Spirits Rejoice!
1978, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Stan Getz
Focus
1978
John Stevens (2), Trevor Watts, Barry Guy
No Fear
1978, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Keith Tippett's Ark
Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film)
1978, ,
, Free Jazz/Fusion/Big Band
Monnette Sudler Sextet
Brighter Days For You
1978
Elton Dean's Ninesense
Happy Daze
1977, LP, Album, Ogun, ,
, Free Jazz
Mike Osborne / Stan Tracey
Tandem - Live At The Bracknell Festival
1977, LP, Album, Ogun
John Stevens
Touching On
1977, Vinyl, ,
, Free Jazz
John Stevens
Chemistry
1977, Vinyl, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tomorrow (2) Featuring Keith West
Tomorrow
1976, CD, ,
, Psychedelic Rock/Pop Rock
Sly & The Family Stone
Small Talk
1974, Vinyl Pitman Pressing, ,
, Funk/Soul
Isotope
Isotope
1974
Barre Phillips
Three Day Moon
Colin Vallon Trio
Rruga
2011
Paolo Fresu / A Filetta Corsican Voices* / Daniele di Bonaventura
Mistico Mediterraneo
2011, CD, 
,
, Contemporary/Folk
Isotope
Isotope
2007
Rabih Abou-Khalil
Al-Jadida
, Fusion
Paul Bley
Fragments
Jan Garbarek • Arild Andersen • Edward Vesala
Triptykon
Barre Phillips
Three Day Moon
, Contemporary Jazz
Eleni Karaindrou
Music For Films
Last Exit
Köln
Kenny Wheeler Quintet
The Widow In The Window
John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
Invisible Nature
CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Anouar Brahem
Barzakh
Tomorrow (2) Featuring Keith West
Tomorrow