skip@gatech.UUCP (Skip Addison) (10/13/84)
What does ECM stand for? I've heard often recently in relation to
Windham Hill records and Mannheim Steamroller, both which I spend a lot
of time listening to.
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uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!skipcuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) (10/17/84)
ECM is a West German label specializing mainly in Jazz. Its recording artists include Pat Metheny, Jack DeJonette, Carla Bley, Eberhard Weber, Keith Jarrett, Denny Zeitlin, and Charlie Haden. Some avant-garde classical music (works composed and performed by Steve Reich, in particular) is also released on the label. Distribution in this country is through the WEA (Warner/Elektra/Asylum) group, and is limited, unfortunately, to the talent most suitable to American tastes. What comes over here, though, is high quality music with quality control quite far ahead of the normal stuff that you will find (though not quite at WH's level). Good starter stuff? Give Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert or Pat Metheny's New Chatauqua a try. --From the birthplace of FSM (1964-1984), --Nick Cuccia --ucbvax!cuccia
wfb@aluxz.UUCP (bailey) (10/18/84)
> ECM is a West German label specializing mainly in Jazz. Its recording > artists include Pat Metheny, Jack DeJonette, Carla Bley, Eberhard Weber, > Keith Jarrett, Denny Zeitlin, and Charlie Haden. Some avant-garde > classical music (works composed and performed by Steve Reich, in > particular) is also released on the label. > > Distribution in this country is through the WEA (Warner/Elektra/Asylum) > group, and is limited, unfortunately, to the talent most suitable to > American tastes. What comes over here, though, is high quality music > with quality control quite far ahead of the normal stuff that you will > find (though not quite at WH's level). > > Good starter stuff? Give Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert or Pat Metheny's > New Chatauqua a try. > > --From the birthplace of FSM (1964-1984), > --Nick Cuccia > --ucbvax!cuccia I had heard that someone had asked about the meaning of 'ECM'. Well, a group of us came up with the guess that it is the initials of the company's founder, Manfred C. Eicher, reversed. Now, that might be stretching things a bit..... Can someone else crack this one? -Bill Bailey AT&T Bell Laboratories Allentown PA aluxz!wfb
Douglas Stumberger <des%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> (10/25/84)
I have heard two ideas about the name ECM: "Editions of Contemporary Music" and the initials of it's famed executive producer, backwards (Manfred C ...)
Sebastian Steinberg <ssteinbe%bbnccw.arpa@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> (10/25/84)
it does stand for Editions in Contemporary Music, however, pet theorys include: Educate Corporate Maggots Ecch Crummy Mud Echo Consumer Money Earthbound Clingy Mush Ear Candy Moolah Ectoplasmic Cabinet Music Extra Civilised Milk Eh! Cloudy Mumble Eating Caramel Mothballs Evil Contamination Merciless Easy Conquest, Manfred!
Sebastian Steinberg <ssteinbe@BBNCCW.ARPA> (10/26/84)
both mick goodrick and bill frizell, local guuitarists who have recorded for ECM, say that it stands for Editions of Contemporary Music. it also actually used to say so on the record sleeves. Carl? Claus? Clint? Christopher? Cliff? Chuck? Calvin? Carmine? Carmen?