Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet (ECM 2855)

Joe LovanoParamount Quartet Joe Lovano tenor and G mezzo soprano saxophones, tarogatoJulian Lage guitarAsante Santi Debriano double bassWill Calhoun drumsRecorded February 2025 at Studios La BuissoneEngineer: Gérard de HaroMastering: Nicolas BaillardProduced by Manfred EicherRelease date: May 29, 2026 Since making his ECM debut on Paul Motian’s Psalm in 1981, saxophonist Joe Lovano has carried himself like an artist forever standing at the threshold of another doorway, one hand still touching the past while the other disappears into a future no one can predict. His discography refuses the comfort of a straight line. One hears instead a constellation, each recording illuminating a different contour of the same restless spirit. Whether navigating post-bop abstraction, folk lyricism, or the broad geometry that ECM has so often cultivated as its own secret dialect, Lovano approaches reinvention as a moral condition. Paramount Quartet, his new collaboration with guitarist Julian Lage,…