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MANFRED EICHER OF ECM RECORDS, INTERVIEWED (1992): Art for the artists' sake

...as a disembodied voice down a phone line can, Manfred Eicher confirms the impression he made on English... ...ever said that to an artist? All of that makes Manfred Eicher – whom Billboard called “a...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE PRODUCER QUESTIONNAIRE . . . Steve Garden of Rattle

...you previously, is? There are many, but Manfred Eicher would have to be top of the list, then,... ...All of Tabula Rasa (Arvo Part, produced by Manfred Eicher – invisible essence-focused production)...

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CHARLES LLOYD; ARROWS INTO INFINITY, a doco by DOROTHY BARR and JEFFREY MORSE

.... and then there was the journey back through Manfred Eicher's ECM label. And a near-death experience in...

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ARVO PART, TABULA RASA (2020): The sound of angel wings

...Stuttgart and Zurich, the famous jazz producer Manfred Eicher heard music on the radio so entrancing he had... ...where you can hear the wings of angels. And as Manfred Eicher discovered that night, it makes you slow down...

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Mal Waldron; Free At Last (ECM 2xLP/CD/digital)

...label which was the project of German producer Manfred Eicher. Waldron seemed an unlikely choice for the...

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Michael Formanek: Small Places (ECM/Ode)

...jazz of Lask back in the Eighties, label boss Manfred Eicher was relctant to go quite that far out again....

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PAT METHENY INTERVIEWED (2020): Him and Ornette dancing in their heads

...to understand – he also said of ECM boss Manfred Eicher, “if Manfred had his way every album...

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TERJE RYPDAL, ECM GUITARIST (2009): The career, and careering across the disc

...on projects ECM boss/producer Manfred Eicher likes to put together. Now in his early 60s,...

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Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble: Mnemosyne (1999)

...of Officium in 1994, not even ECM label boss Manfred Eicher - whose idea it was - could have predicted its...

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DON WAS INTERVIEWED (2014): This note's for you

...who has been delivering superb albums on Manfred Eicher's ECM label for about 25 years. “We just...

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10 UNUSUAL ECM ALBUMS OF THE EIGHTIES I OWN (2019): But there's no pattern to the pattern . . .

...Manfred Eicher founded his record label ECM (Editions of...

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JOHN SURMAN: The casually-dressed career

...fledgling ECM label helmed by German producer Manfred Eicher. Then things got interesting: in 81 he...

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FREE JAZZ WITH A BLEEP: The Norwegian electronic-jazz label Rune Grammofone

...The ECM label, helmed by German producer Manfred Eicher, has long had a reputation for chilly, melodic...

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JAN GARBAREK, ECM SAXOPHONIST (2009): The times they have a-changed

...in ‘94 when the label’s boss Manfred Eicher paired him with the Hilliard Ensemble (a vocal...

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Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani: The Third Man (ECM/Ode)

...although it perhaps also refers to producer Manfred Eicher -- there are dark corners, even in their seven...

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BILL FRISELL PROFILED (2017): Guitarist without portfolio

...– recommended to the company's founder Manfred Eicher by ECM guitarist Pat Metheny – and his...

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Motian/Lovano/Frisell; Time and Time Again (2007)

...out of Germany. It was founded in 1969 by Manfred Eicher who had a classical upbringing but loved...

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Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant (ECM/Ode)

...Studio in Oslo with, as always, producer Manfred Eicher at the desk. That aforementioned ease also...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/7876/benedikt-jahnel-trio-the-invariant-ecm-ode/

LESTER BOWIE REMEMBERED (1941-1999): Does humour belong in music?

...of it recorded by ECM whose founder/producer, Manfred Eicher, brought a sonic clarity to their project...

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TOMASZ STANKO: LONTANO, CONSIDERED (2006): Emotion from a distance

...The ECM label founded by the German producer Manfred Eicher over 60 years ago has a reputation for a...

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CHARLES LLOYD INTERVIEWED (2010): A forest flower in full bloom

...Keith Jarrett and knew [ECM founder/producer] Manfred Eicher. Manfred was interested in recording with me....

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Jarrett, Haden, Motian: Hamburg '72 (ECM/Ode)

...first European tour and ECM founder/producer Manfred Eicher started work on mixing the tapes -- by chance...

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Steve Tibbetts: Hellbound Train; An Anthology (ECM/digital outlets)

...very lucky. In 1982 he found a supporter in Manfred Eicher who recorded him for his ECM label, and...

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Shai Maestro: Human (ECM/digital outlets)

...spaciousness (the album was produced by Manfred Eicher, of course), this quietly beautiful and...

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Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem: Purcor; Songs for Saxophone and Piano (ECM/Ode)

On a blindfold test -- "What record label is this on?" -- my money would be on greater than 90 percent of music-aware Elsewhere people saying immediately "ECM", and about half of t

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Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM/Ode)

The album title here perhaps suggest rather more shadowland than is evident in these beautiful, sometimes light-filled duets by acoustic guitarist Towner and flugel/trumpet player Fresu. Certainly the

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Jan Garbarek: Rites (ECM)

Norwegian saxophonist Garbarek scored a huge crossover album in 1995 with Officium which lined him up with the Hilliard Ensemble for an inspired marriage of the spiritual and the secular which ended u

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyria (ECM/Ode)

Because music on the ECM label often invites a litany of familiar adjectives -- austere, cool, detached -- it's a pleasure to throw this disc into the player and find yourself thinking more along the

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Jorgensen, Mikkonen, Ounaskari: Kuara, Psalms and Folk Songs (ECM/Ode)

Unfamiliar names, but this trumpet, piano and drum trio deliver an always interesting and often impressive line in meditative mood music which steps lightly between the most refined Miles Davis, conte

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Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension (ECM New Series)

Meredith Monk's ethereal vocal music often seems to exist between the chapel and the arthouse, at home being bookended by a choral group and Laurie Anderson. Over the decades her work has extended fro

Music at Elsewhere: music/4390/meredith-monk-songs-of-ascension-ecm-new-series/

Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror (ECM/Ode)

Anyone who has seen this extraordinary quartet recently -- they played in New Zealand earlier this year, Lloyd interviewed here -- will need not further prodding on this album other than to know it is

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Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM (ECM)

The usually restrained ECM isn't a risk-averse label -- how well some remember the textural noise of Lask and the guitar abuse of David Torn -- so when they open the vaults for manipulation you know t

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Berne, Taborn, Formanek, Cleaver: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM/Ode)

Although you would be unwise to say any particular album seems unusual on ECM -- this is a label which has had Jan Garbarek with the Hilliard Ensemble, the noisecore of Lask and the Art Ensemble of Ch

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Mathias Eick: Skala (ECM/Ode)

As mentioned in a review of one his earlier albums, The Door (here), Norwegian trumpeter Eick has an inclusive approach to his art and has played in many different contexts, from big bands to psychede

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Marilyn Crispell and David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM/Ode)

American pianist Marilyn Crispell is one of those rarities: classically trained, she jumped in at the very deep and demanding end of the jazz pool – free jazz, Cecil Taylor, the ferociously inte

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Vallon, Moret, Rohrer: Rruga (ECM/Ode)

This is ECM piano trio jazz certainly, but young pianist/composer Colin Vallon brings something different and unusual to these 11 pieces, most of which are his originals or by drummer Samuel Rohrer. (

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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM/Ode)

Here is a rare one: this is Elsewhere regular, Keith Jarrett's first recording outside of his trio in . . . well, it almost seems like forever. And his choice of companion is the great bassist Charlie

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Julia Hulsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM/Ode)

While few would deny the gentle beauty of these trio recordings (and, not incidentally, the impressive playing of drummer Heinrich Kobberling), this too often suffers the fate of some similarly-concei

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Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)

A 2009 ECM superstar session where Lee, Brad, Charlie and Paul played standards (Lover Man, Lullaby of Birdland, Oleo etc) from which this finely wrought, sensitive selection was drawn. Pianist Mehlda

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Blood and Burger: Guitar Music (Derniere Bande)

The great jazz, post-Hendrix and entirely Elsewhere guitarist James Blood Ulmer delivered exceptional albums of post-Ornette Coleman harmolodic music such as Tales of Captain Black and Are You Glad To

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