fpa@cvl.UUCP (Fred P. Andresen) (10/14/84)
[] I can't tell you what it stands for right now, but I'll check one of ECM and see if it says. ECM is a very high quality jazz record label which features primarily "new", "clean", "fresh", "scandinavian" sounding music. They, like Windham Hill, usually use soft plastic sleeves. I may be wrong, but they might be distributed by Warner Bros. Typical artists are Jan Garbarek Alto Sax Palle Daniellson Bass Jon Christenson Drums Keith Jarrett Piano Ralph Towner Guitar Pat Metheny (+ group) Guitar (As "pop" as ECM ever gets) This is because Metheny's early stuff was not as pop and he just stuck with the label. Gary Peacock Bass To name just a few of my favorites. I am admittedly not up to date, however, on ECM's stuff. Two years in graduate school has totally isolated me musically. Their albums are almost always a few bucks more than others, but I picked up Gary Peacock as a cutout and on sale for 50 cents! They put out many solo albums. Some very avant-garde, exploratory, listening. Good for the soul. Fred P. Andresen (fpa@cvl)
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (10/15/84)
I could be wrong, but I believe that the initials "ECM" have something to do
with the name of the label's producer, Mannfred C. Eischer.
A few other ECM artists to get excited about:
John Abercrombie guitar
Richard Beirach piano
Gary Burton vibes
Don Cherry trumpet (plus various gamelan instruments)
Egberto Gismonti guitar
Nana Vasconcelos percussion
Colin Walcott sitar, tabla, hammered dulcimer
In addition, ECM was the label on which Chick Corea recorded (in my opinion)
his best work: his early solo piano stuff and the Brazilian-flavored first
incarnation of "Return to Forever" (with Flora Purim on vocals).
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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