Re: Blood Oranges to be available on Red House

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Hi Wolf.
ECM is a record label run by Manfred Eicher known for recording a certain
style of artist- some good examples of 'the ECM sound' would be certain
albums by the likes of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette
(these three have actually recorded four albums as a trio), Pat Metheny
(before he became as popular as he now is), Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek
etc, etc. The particular approach is characterized by high levels of
musicianship and technical skill- almost as if approaching post-post-bop
jazz (sort of the child of stuff like Wayne Shorter's Blue Note records, or
the Miles Davis late 60's quintet) as classical music and recording it that
way. I think ECM originally stood for 'Excursions in Contemporary Music' or
some such thing.
                EK



At 08:04 PM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>> I also agree that it's a masterpiece and a must-have album- more like ECM
>> jazz than typical Klezmer in its attitude and execution (not that I have
>> any special feelings for ECM jazz or against Klezmer- I'm just being
>> descriptive here).
>>                 EK
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>Dear Eliezer
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>What is ECM;  European Common Market?  (I'm not trying to be funny).
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>I agree the Braves did a great job.  They have raised the ante on all the
>pine-repro, generic klezmer bands, B"H.
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>Complimenti and <yasher koyekh>.
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>Wolf Krakowski
>www.kamea.com
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