Re: ECM

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Y,know Ari? People have said that (quite cold--non-emotional), but it's not
really true- check out any of the Gateway Trio albums (Abercrombie/
Holland/ DeJohnette) or Gary Burton's 'Passengers' or The Art Ensemble of
Chicago's 'Nice Guys' or, or, or. I guess the 'coldness' could be said to
describe some of the releases by some of their European Artists, such as
Terje Rypdal (and I haven't heard anything he's done in years- so I'm
certainly describing his earlier recordings here), but I don't think any
sort of generalization in this area holds true.
                EK


At 09:58 AM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
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>At 07:46 AM 6/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi all,
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>>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.
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>>Seth
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>>>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
>>>>
>>>>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.
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>>>>Complimenti and <yasher koyekh>.
>>>>
>>>>Wolf Krakowski
>>>>www.kamea.com
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