Mail Archive sponsored by
Chazzanut Online
jewish-music
Re: ECM
- From: Ari Davidow <ari...>
- Subject: Re: ECM
- Date: Tue 29 Jun 1999 14.03 (GMT)
ECM music is/was also considered (or was, in the Seventies when I listened
to it more) quite cold--non-emotional, which Royte Pomerantzn very much
isn't.
At 07:46 AM 6/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>>
>>At 08:04 PM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>Dear Eliezer
>>>
>>>What is ECM; European Common Market? (I'm not trying to be funny).
>>>
>>>I agree the Braves did a great job. They have raised the ante on all the
>>>pine-repro, generic klezmer bands, B"H.
>>>
>>>Complimenti and <yasher koyekh>.
>>>
>>>Wolf Krakowski
>>>www.kamea.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>McDuffee's General Store & Recording Co.
>Seth Austen & Beverly Woods
>3 Pork Hill Rd Ossipee, NH 03864
>(603) 539-8301
>acoustic (at) landmarknet(dot)net
>
>
>
---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+