Re: ECM

[S. Austen & B. Woods <acoustic...>]

Hi all,

ECM is Editions Contemporary Music. See also the fantastic recordings by
Ralph Towner, Oregon, Egberto Gismonte, etc...for more examples of the
classic ECM sound. Some of this music is what Windham Hill hoped to be,
ambient and lush, but with a very strong compositional sense. Don't get me
wrong, some of the early Windham Hill releases were great, however, things
have gotten a bit more formulaic recently. ECM has never lost it, IMHO.


Seth






>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
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>At 08:04 PM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>>Eliezer Kaplan 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>.
>>
>>Wolf Krakowski
>>www.kamea.com
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