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ECM
Founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, ECM has issued over a thousand albums spanning many idioms. After establishing an early reputation with standard-setting jazz recordings by Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others, ECM began to include contemporary composition into its programme in the late 1970's. Eicher’s own background, as a musician active in both jazz and classical music, provided an unusually broad vantage point from which to survey the genres, and the producer has been credited with helping to bring form to improvised music and a sense of ‘improvisational’ flexibility to recordings of contemporary composition.
The label has documented jazz and improvised music from both sides of the Atlantic and brought together many musicians in new and influential combinations. An account of ECM’s activities through four decades is encompassed in the book “Horizons Touched”, edited by Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths.
In ECM’s 40th year diverse concerts and festivals saluted the label’s achievement with special events in Mannheim, London, Munich, Berlin, Athens, Milan, Barcelona and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the work goes on, and ECM’s 2011 season has been as busy as ever!
Discography
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Melodic Warrior Terje Rypdal & T…
Format: CD
24/06/2013
Personnel: Terje Rypdal (guitar), The Hilliard Ensemble, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, S… -
Azure Gary Peacock & M…
Format: CD
17/06/2013
Azure features beautiful duets by two great improvisers whose compatibility was proven long ago. Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell made outstanding mu… -
Somewhere Keith Jarrett Trio
Format: CD
27/05/2013
The "Somewhere" in which Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette - the 'Standards' trio - find themselves is Lucerne, Switzerland, in the yea… -
The Gift Susanne Abbuehl
Format: CD
13/05/2013
In her albums of sung poetry, Susanne Abbuehl grants words room to move. For her, "setting verse" implies more than the pinning of a poem's cadences t… -
Transylvanian Concert Lucian Ban & Mat…
Format: CD
13/05/2013
Transylvanian Concert marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for American violist Mat Maneri, in his ninth a… -
Chants Craig Taborn Trio
Format: CD
29/04/2013
Recently hailed by Down Beat as "one of the visionaries of the current wave", American pianist Craig Taborn has a unique perspective on creative music… -
La notte Ketil Bjornstad
Format: CD
29/04/2013
Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, La notte is a salute to Italian filmmaker M… -
In Full View Julia Hulsmann Quart…
Format: CD
15/04/2013
After two acclaimed trio albums (The End of a Summer and Imprint), pianist Julia Hülsmann proposes a different project for her third ECM release In F… -
Paul Motian (6CD) Paul Motian
Format: CD
08/04/2013
ECM salutes the late, great drummer with an Old & New Masters Edition box of six of his early albums on the label. The recordings from 1972 to 1984 ar… -
Quartets (5CD) Charles Lloyd
Format: CD
08/04/2013
This five-CD box set in ECM's Old & New Masters series, issued to mark Charles Lloyd's 75th birthday (on 15 March, 2013), looks back at the beginning… -
Third Reel Third Reel (Nicolas…
Format: CD
01/04/2013
A collaborative group brimming with creative potential, Third Reel packs much musical information into the 16 vividly expressive tracks of its debut a… -
Quercus Quercus (June Tabor,…
Format: CD
01/04/2013
"Utterly gorgeous" was the immediate reaction from Ian Anderson, editor of fRoots magazine, to this disc by Quercus, the trio formed by legendary folk…
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