Black Focus Electronic German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes

German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes his highly melodious ECM debut with an all-star quartet of trumpeter Mathias Eick

was ranked #119 on RollingStone’s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012

The Bad Plus offers a strikingly different sound and lineup

in New York

The Australian performer travelled via Berlin to eventually settle in Manchester and is joined here by some of the city's most talented improvisers

Black Focus Electronic German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makesOn Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London. Taking inspiration from the anything goes spirit of 70s jazz funk, on albums by Herbie Hancock or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, its a loose template with plenty of room to experiment. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in the way of formal training. Instead, their musical tastes and approach to playing